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35th Etoile de Bessèges - 2.1
France, February 2-6, 2005
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Steels wins as FDJ and Davitamon take control
Belgian sprinter Tom Steels (Davitamon-Lotto) has won the second stage of the Etoile de Bessèges, beating Jaan Kirsipuu (Crédit Agricole) and Jean-Patrick Nazon (AG2r Prévoyance) in a bunch finish at the end of the day's 149km journey from Nîmes to Saint-Ambroix. With strong support from his Française des Jeux, Freddy Bichot retained the overall lead.
After Bichon, Maxim Montfort and Arnaud Labbe nabbed a five minute advantage on the first day, it was obvious the frustrated peloton would try and get its revenge today, and the attacks were early and numerous. But FDJ worked to control the damage, knowing that eventually the sprinters' teams would pitch in.
"There were a lot of attacks," said Bichot's directeur sportif Franck Pineau, "but we tried to limit the gap to three minutes so that, sooner or later, we would get some help from the sprinters' teams."
And so Nazon's AG2r Prévoyance squad moved to the front to chase down a six-rider break that got away mid-stage, then had to redouble their efforts to limit the first big attack of the year by Cofidis's Sylvain Chavanel.
"Charles Guilbert (Bretagne-Jean Floc'h) and Olivier Bonnaire (Bouygues Telecom) went with him three laps from the finish," said Pineau. "They soon had a 1.10 advantage and all Freddy Bichot's team-mates put themselves on the rivet to bring them back. When the gap was down to 45 seconds, Tom Steels' team came to help us and Sylvain Chavanel was caught 2km from the finish."
Stage 2 - February 3: Nîmes - Saint-Amour, 149.2 km
Results
1 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 4.01.36 (37.053km/h) 2 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole 3 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 4 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team LPR 5 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 6 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 7 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 8 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 9 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 10 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 11 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 12 Lilian Jegou (Fra) La Française des Jeux 13 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 14 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 15 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 16 Mikhail Khalilov (Ukr) Team LPR 17 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 18 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 19 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 20 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) Team Miche 21 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 22 Serguey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 24 Christophe Rinero (Fra) RAGT Semences 25 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 26 Bart Dockx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 27 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 28 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 29 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 30 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 31 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 32 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 33 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93 34 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 35 Guillaume Auger (Fra) RAGT Semences 36 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 37 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 38 Hubert Dupont (Fra) RAGT Semences 39 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 40 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 41 Koen Barbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 42 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 43 Claude Pauwels (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 44 Ludovic Auger (Fra) La Française des Jeux 45 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Team LPR 46 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 47 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 48 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 49 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 50 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 51 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 52 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 53 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis 54 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 55 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences 56 Kristof Trouve (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 57 Luca Nardello (Ita) Team LPR 58 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 59 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 60 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance 61 Glen D'Hollander (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 62 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Auber 93 63 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 64 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 65 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Team Miche 66 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 67 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis 68 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 69 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 70 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 71 Florent Brard (Fra) Agritubel 72 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 73 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team LPR 74 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 75 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Française des Jeux 76 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 77 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 78 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Jartazi-Revor 79 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) La Française des Jeux 80 Alex Coutts (GBr) Flanders 81 Yann Pivois (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 82 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 83 Alessandro Maserati (Ita) Team LPR 84 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Crédit Agricole 85 Dimitri Konychev (Rus) Team LPR 86 Geert Omloop (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 87 Tony Bracke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 88 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 89 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 90 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 91 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 92 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Jartazi-Revor 0.52 93 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.45 94 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Auber 93 3.22 95 Christian Muller (Ger) Team CSC 4.37 96 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 97 Peter Ronsse (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 98 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 99 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 100 Björn Cornelissen (Ned) Flanders 101 Ivaïlo Gabrovski (Bul) Team Miche 102 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 103 Daniele Masolino (Ita) Team LPR 104 Armando Rupa (Ita) Team Miche 105 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 4.49 106 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel 6.08 107 Steven Thys (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 108 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 109 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis 110 Alexandre Girout (Fra) Agritubel 111 Thierry Masschelein (Bel) Flanders 112 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 113 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 114 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) La Française des Jeux 115 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 116 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 117 David Breard (Fra) Auber 93 118 Alexandre Naulleau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 119 Marc Staelen (Fra) Agritubel 120 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Agritubel 121 Kenneth Mercken (Bel) Flanders 122 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 123 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 7.39 124 David Le Lay (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 125 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 126 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 127 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 9.14 128 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) La Française des Jeux 129 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 130 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 131 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 132 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders 133 Kevin Ista (Bel) RAGT Semences 134 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) RAGT Semences 135 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Cofidis 18.54 136 Roman Luhovyy (Ukr) RAGT Semences DNS Jef Peeters (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim DNF Christophe Moreau (Fra) Crédit Agricole DNF Maryan Hary (Fra) Bouygues Telecom General classification after stage 2 1 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 7.26.54 2 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 0.08 3 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 0.37 4 Lilian Jegou (Fra) La Française des Jeux 5.20 5 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 6 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 5.21 7 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 8 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 5.22 9 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 10 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 5.23 11 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 12 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 13 Christophe Rinero (Fra) RAGT Semences 14 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93 15 Mickaël Buffaz (Fra) Agritubel 16 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 17 Bart Dockx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 18 Hubert Dupont (Fra) RAGT Semences 19 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 20 Serguey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 21 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 22 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 23 Matthé Pronk (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 24 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 25 Koen Barbe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 26 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 27 Franck Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 28 Frederik Willems (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 29 Luca Nardello (Ita) Team LPR 30 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 31 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 32 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 33 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 34 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team LPR 35 Guillaume Auger (Fra) RAGT Semences 36 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 37 Kristof Trouve (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 38 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Française des Jeux 39 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 40 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 41 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Crédit Agricole 42 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 43 Florent Brard (Fra) Agritubel 44 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences 45 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) La Française des Jeux 46 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 47 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 48 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 49 Yann Pivois (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 50 Peter Van Petegem (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 51 Alex Coutts (GBr) Flanders 52 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 53 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Team Miche 7.08 54 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 8.40 55 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 8.46 56 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 8.50 57 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 58 Thierry De Groote (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 59 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 60 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) Team Miche 61 Mikhail Khalilov (Ukr) Team LPR 62 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC 63 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 5.40 64 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole 8.50 65 Mathieu Criquielion (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 66 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 67 Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Team LPR 68 Claude Pauwels (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 69 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance 70 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 71 Ludovic Auger (Fra) La Française des Jeux 72 Dimitri Konychev (Rus) Team LPR 73 Alessandro Maserati (Ita) Team LPR 74 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 75 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis 76 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Jartazi-Revor 77 Geert Omloop (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 78 Glen D'Hollander (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 79 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Cofidis 80 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 81 Charles Guilbert (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 82 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 83 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) La Française des Jeux 11.31 84 Alexandre Naulleau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 85 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 86 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 87 Marc Staelen (Fra) Agritubel 88 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis 13.02 89 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 13.21 90 Tony Bracke (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 91 Christian Muller (Ger) Team CSC 13.27 92 Armando Rupa (Ita) Team Miche 93 Noan Lelarge (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 94 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 95 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 96 Daniele Masolino (Ita) Team LPR 97 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) La Française des Jeux 14.37 98 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 99 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 14.58 100 David Breard (Fra) Auber 93 101 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Agritubel 102 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 103 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team LPR 15.06 104 Steven Kleynen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 105 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole 15.09 106 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 15.15 107 Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 108 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 109 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Auber 93 110 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 111 Raimondas Vilcinskas (Ltu) Jartazi-Revor 16.07 112 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 16.29 113 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Flanders 18.04 114 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 115 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) RAGT Semences 116 Christophe Oriol (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 117 Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Auber 93 18.37 118 Robby Meul (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 19.43 119 Björn Cornelissen (Ned) Flanders 19.52 120 Peter Ronsse (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 121 Ivaïlo Gabrovski (Bul) Team Miche 122 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Team Miche 20.04.00 123 David Le Lay (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 21.00 124 Linas Balciunas (Ltu) Agritubel 21.23 125 Alexandre Girout (Fra) Agritubel 126 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 127 Steven Thys (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 128 Thierry Masschelein (Bel) Flanders 129 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis 130 Michael Blanchy (Bel) Jartazi-Revor 131 Kenneth Mercken (Bel) Flanders 132 Ludovic Capelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 22.54 133 Kevin Ista (Bel) RAGT Semences 24.29 134 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Team Miche 135 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Cofidis 27.44 136 Roman Luhovyy (Ukr) RAGT Semences 34.09 Mountains classification 1 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 16 pts 2 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 12 3 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 8 4 Serguey Lagutin (Uzb) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 6 5 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 6 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4 7 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance 4 8 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 4 9 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Cofidis 2 10 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) RAGT Semences 2 11 Alexandre Naulleau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 Points classification 1 Freddy Bichot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 33 pts 2 Tom Steels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 25 3 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 25 4 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 23 5 Bobbie Traksel (Ned) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 22 6 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Auber 93 20 7 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Crédit Agricole 20 8 Lilian Jegou (Fra) La Française des Jeux 18 9 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance 16 10 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 14 11 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Team LPR 14 12 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 12 13 Nico Eeckhout (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 12 14 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 10 15 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 6 16 Erwin Thijs (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 6 17 Jean-Luc Delpech (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 6 18 Johan Coenen (Bel) MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 5 19 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5 20 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prévoyance 4 21 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team LPR 4 22 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3 23 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Agritubel 3 24 Benoît Poilvet (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2 25 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93 2 26 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1 Under 23 classification 1 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 7.27.02 2 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93 5.15 3 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 4 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Team LPR 5 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 6 Alex Coutts (GBr) Flanders 7 Carl Naibo (Fra) Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 8 Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 7.00 9 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) La Française des Jeux 11.23 10 Olivier Bonnaire (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 Christian Muller (Ger) Team CSC 13.19 12 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 13 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) La Française des Jeux 14.29 14 William Bonnet (Fra) Auber 93 14.50 15 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Auber 93 15.07 16 Emilien Berges (Fra) RAGT Semences 16.21 17 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) RAGT Semences 17.56 18 Alexandre Girout (Fra) Agritubel 21.15 19 Jean-Paul Simon (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 20 Kevin Ista (Bel) RAGT Semences 24.21 21 Nicolas Roche (Irl) Cofidis 27.36 Team classification 1 La Française des Jeux 22.31.41 2 Auber 93 0.30 3 Landbouwkrediet-Colnago 3.29 4 MrBookmaker.com-SportsTech 5.10 5 Crédit Agricole 6 Ag2r Prévoyance 7 Davitamon-Lotto 8 Team CSC 9 Chocolade Jacques-T Interim 10 Bouygues Telecom 11 RAGT Semences 12 Agritubel 13 Cofidis 14 Team LPR 8.37 15 Bretagne-Jean Floc'h 16 Team Miche 8.54 17 Jartazi-Revor 21.47 18 Flanders 29.14
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