Gerolsteiner notes

"Tom Boonen apparently said in an interview, that the Tour is a race for masochists. He could be right, when you consider what pains the Tour is associated with," said Gerolsteiner's Fabian Wegmann on his website. "But winning the mountain jersey makes up for it."

Everything is not going so well for him, though. On the sprinter's stage on Wednesday, the German had some problems. "My back hurts a little. That comes from my crash in the prologue."

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