Wednesday, September 17, 2008

stage 16

tornado tom won ahead of italian pozzato and german/australian heinrich haussler in stage 16 to zamora, a stage marked by low speeds as the riders took a rolling rest day. contador, easily kept the leader's maillot oro. he leads the race by 1:17 over team astana teammate leipheimer with five days remaining.


on the tipping front, no big changes but team escalon moved within 10 sec of overhauling gc leader damnchickens. those two teams are clearly ahead but the next four teams are close enough to fight it out for that final podium spot. however, it only takes one bad tip and it is all down the drain. a stage win by team fuerte y suerte vaulted them up the sprint point standings.

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