Friday, August 17, 2007

Jensinator

Jens Voigt has set himself to win his second straight Tour of Germany. Today he surprised many of the top time trail riders by taking the win by 14 seconds. Not only does Jens has one more stage left, its also a very flat stage which means it for the sprinters. This also will make it very easy for Jens to sit in the peleton and control the race. So team CSC is sitting pretty going into tomorrows stage. Heres the results from velonews.com

Results Stage 8
1. Jens Voigt (G), CSC, at 39:42.4
2. Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun), Credit Agricole, at 0:14.8
3. Levi Leipheimer (USA), Discovery Channel, at 0:25:6
4. Jason McCartney (USA), Discovery Channel, at 0:39.1
5. Linus Gerdemann (G), T-Mobile, at 0:39.8
6. Marco Pinotti (I), T-Mobile, at 0:43.7
7. Leonardo Bertagnolli (I), Liquigas, at 0:46.1
8. Gustav Erik Larsson (S), Unibet, at 0:46.5
9. Bobby Julich (USA), CSC, at 0:50.3
10. Joost Posthuma (Nl), Rabobank, at 1:14.6

Other North Americans
13. George Hincapie (USA), Discovery Channel, at 1:36.0
43. Tom Danielson (USA), Discovery Channel, at 2:47.6

Overall
1. Jens Voigt (G), CSC, at 27:40:26
2. Levi Leipheimer (USA), Discovery Channel, at 1:57
3. David Lopez Garcia (Sp), Caisse d'Epargne, at 2:10
4. Leonardo Bertagnolli (I), Liquigas, at 3:05
5. Robert Gesink (Nl), Rabobank, at 3:15
6. Chris Anker Sørensen (Dk), CSC, at 4:06
7. Maxime Monfort (B), Cofidis, at 5:22
8. Laurens Ten Dam (Nl), Unibet, at 5:26
9. Gustav Erik Larsson (S), Unibet, at 6:08
10. Davide Rebellin (I), Gerolsteiner, at 6:16

Other North Americans
22. Bobby Julich (USA), CSC, at 7:55
27. George Hincapie (USA), Discovery Channel, at 8:23
29. Tom Danielson (USA), Discovery Channel, at 8:37
43. Jason McCartney (USA), Discovery Channel, at 13:02

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