Schleck hangs onto fifth

Frank Schleck (CSC)

Frank Schleck (CSC) (Image credit: Hedwig Kröner)

For the first time in two years, CSC didn't finish Paris-Nice with the overall victory, preferring to have a quieter start to the season than usual. After Bobby Julich won the prologue, CSC's best placed rider on GC was Luxembourgian Fränk Schleck, who finished fifth. On the final stage, Schleck took a bonus second in an intermediate sprint, which moved him into a virtual fourth, before Antonio Colom (Caisse d'Epargne) escaped on the last descent to leapfrog over Schleck and Sanchez into third overall.

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