Saturday, August 4, 2007

Oh yeah some more race coverage


Well today was the Clasica San Sebastian. It was a 225 kilometer race in the north of Spain. It included six climbs within the 225 kilometers. Leonardo Bertagnolli, with only 5 days of racing total this year, made an attack with 300 meters to go and edged out Juan Manuel Garate for the victory. Here is interesting stat about the race today 168 racers started today and only 117 finished and another 11 riders failed to make it in by the time limit. Well here is the top 10 finishers. They results were provided by velonews.com The highest placed American was Christian Vande Velde.
1. Leonardo Bertagnolli (I), Liquigas, 225km in 5:12:42
2. Juan Manuel Garate (Sp), Quick Step-Innergetic, same time
3. Alejandro Valverde (Sp), Caisse d'Epargne, at 0:18
4. Alessandro Ballan (I) Lampre, s.t.
5. Carlos Barredo (Sp), Quick Step-Innergetic, s.t.
6. Mikel Astarloza (Sp), Euskaltel-Euskadi, s.t.
7. Carlos Sastre (Sp), CSC, s.t.
8. IƱigo Landaluze (Sp), Euskaltel-Euskadi, at 0:28
9. Xavier Florencio (Sp), Bouygues Telecom, s.t.
10. Giovanni Visconti (I), Quick Step-Innergetic, at 0:37

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