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54th Circuit de la Sarthe - 2.1

France, April 4-7, 2006

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Stage 1 - April 4: Mouilleron Le Captif - Saint Mars La Jaille, 193 km

Förster celebrates

Raisin, Farrar and Lancaster on the injury list

By Jean-François Quénet in St-Mars-la-Jaille

Robert Forster (Gerolsteiner)
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Robert Förster of Gerolsteiner claimed his first win this year in the village of St-Mars-la-Jaille, which is the place where Bouygues Telecom's Anthony Ravard grew up. The local hero who won stage 1 in the Circuit de la Sarthe-Pays de la Loire last year in the nearby town of Varade couldn't repeat his success, but came third in a sprint that was highly spectacular because of a massive crash.

"The last kilometre was extremely dangerous," Förster explained. "There were two sharp corners, but the sprint was not a problem for me. The crash happened behind me, probably in fifth or sixth position. Before that, my team had done a very good job. We had Georg Totschnig and Michael Rich controlling the bunch through the stage, then Stefan Schumacher was the last guy to lead me out with 300 meters to go. He crashed after giving me the way. I heard it but I didn't see it. I was in first position for the last 250 meters."

Förster wasn't very confident before coming to this race since he crashed while training last week, hurt his hand and was forced to reduce his preparation. He's gearing up again for the Tour of Italy where he was third twice last year in the bunch sprints.

Ivan Basso also has the Giro in mind. His CSC team rode quite a lot in the front today. "We have to get used to that before the Tour of Italy," directeur sportif Alain Gallopin said. Five of the CSC riders in the Circuit de la Sarthe-Pays de la Loire will line up in Seraing next month. There is another flat stage before the 8km time trial where Basso will be compared to world champion Michael Rogers of T-Mobile and the winner the ITT at the Criterium International, José Alberto Martinez from Agritubel.

Tyler Farrar (Cofidis)
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But Juan Carlos Dominguez of Unibet.com will not be able to contest the time trial. He's one of the victims of the numerous crashes of the day. He went down with 10km to go and broke his right collarbone. With 2km to go, it was Saul Raisin's turn to crash heavily. The participation of the Tour of Italy is in doubt for the Crédit Agricole rider since he broke his left collarbone and a few traumas were reported: to his hip and face. He also lost consciousness for a little while. The final crash affected mostly Panaria's Brett Lancaster who had a thorax and collarbone trauma but nothing broken, and Tyler Farrar from Cofidis whose left collarbone was fractured.

How it unfolded

Mick Rogers (T-Mobile)
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Prior to the first bonus sprint of the day at km 40, Jérôme Pineau (Bouygues Telecom) attacked, 12 riders joined but only one of them, Yuriy Krivtsov (Ag2r) continued with him. Pineau and Krivtsov got a maximum lead of 5'41 at km 54.

Pineau stopped and waited for the bunch at km 75. 31 kilometres were covered in the third hour! Krivtsov was still away alone with 30 seconds advantage at km 124 when Jérémy Roy (Française des Jeux) decided to break clear from the bunch. Only 8km further, the duo was 2'27 ahead.

CSC, T-Mobile and Panaria were the most active teams in front of the pack. They caught Krivtsov and Roy with 6km to go. Hot favourite for the sprint Paride Grillo (Panaria) punctured with 4km to go. A crash involved Saul Raisin (Crédit Agricole) with 2km to go. A major crash occurred 150 metres before the finishing line with ten riders down. Among them were Brett Lancaster and Ruben Bongiorno (Panaria), Tyler Farrar (Cofidis), Andre Korff (T-Mobile), Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) and Giovanni Bernaudeau (Bouygues Telecom).

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Results

1 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                    
2 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni            
3 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                
4 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance                                  
5 William Bonnet (Fra) Credit Agricole                                 
6 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                              
7 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Acqua Sapone                                 
8 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole                               
9 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93                                           
10 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Auber 93                                       
11 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                
12 Andrus Aug (Est) Acqua Sapone                                       
13 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.Com                                    
14 Tommaso Caneschi (Ita) Miche                                        
15 Camille Bouquet (Fra) Unibet.Com                                    
16 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Miche                                        
17 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone           
18 Allessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua Sapone                               
19 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Agritubel                               
20 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                           
21 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni           
22 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team                                 
23 Scott Davis (Aus) T-Mobile Team                                     
24 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile Team                                  
25 Bo Hamburger (Den) Miche                                            
26 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                          
27 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC                                       
28 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni        
29 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team                                 
30 Freddy Gonzalez (Col) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni         
31 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC                                         
32 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom                                 
33 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                  
34 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93                                         
35 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC                                     
36 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Unibet.Com                              
37 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                 
38 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner                                     
39 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel                                  
40 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC                                           
41 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC                                    
42 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone            
43 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                             
44 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                     
45 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC                                         
46 Andrea Rossi (Ita) Acqua Sapone                                     
47 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) T-Mobile Team                                  
48 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance                             
49 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Agritubel                                     
50 Jure Zrimsek (Slo) Acqua Sapone                                     
51 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone               
52 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni    
53 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                               
54 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance                                
55 Denis Bertolini (Ita) Acqua Sapone                                  
56 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Credit Agricole                       0.26
57 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni       
58 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                     
59 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                      
60 Antoine Dalibard (Fra) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                     
61 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance                                
62 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                             
63 Julien Mazet (Fra) Auber 93                                         
64 Mickael Delage (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                             
65 Sébastien Duret (Fra) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                      
66 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Unibet.Com                                 
67 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Credit Agricole                               
68 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner                                  
69 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole                               
70 Noan Lelarge (Fra) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                         
71 David Le Lay (Fra) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                         
72 Florian Morizot (Fra) Auber 93                                      
73 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                   
74 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche                                          
75 Emilien Berges (Fra) Auber 93                                       
76 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                     
77 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                             0.26
78 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2R Prevoyance                                  
79 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                       
80 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel                                     0.40
81 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche                                       1.48
82 Moises Duenas (Spa) Agritubel                                       
83 Seweryn Zenon Kohut (Pol) Miche                                     
84 Petter Renang (Swe) Unibet.Com                                  0.26
85 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance                               
86 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                
87 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Agritubel                                0.26
88 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone               
89 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                          
90 Mirko Allegrini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                 6.13
91 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                     
92 Guillermo Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                 
93 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone                 
94 Saul Raisin (USA) Credit Agricole                               0.26
 
General classification after stage 1
 
1 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                    
2 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni            
3 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                
4 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance                                  
5 William Bonnet (Fra) Credit Agricole                                 
6 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                              
7 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Acqua Sapone                                 
8 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole                               
9 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93                                           
10 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Auber 93                                       
11 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                
12 Andrus Aug (Est) Acqua Sapone                                       
13 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.Com                                    
14 Tommaso Caneschi (Ita) Miche                                        
15 Camille Bouquet (Fra) Unibet.Com                                    
16 Arkadiusz Wojtas (Pol) Miche                                        
17 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone           
18 Allessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua Sapone                               
19 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Agritubel                               
20 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                           
21 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni           
22 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team                                 
23 Scott Davis (Aus) T-Mobile Team                                     
24 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile Team                                  
25 Bo Hamburger (Den) Miche                                            
26 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                          
27 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC                                       
28 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni        
29 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team                                 
30 Freddy Gonzalez (Col) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni         
31 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC                                         
32 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom                                 
33 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                  
34 John Nilsson (Swe) Auber 93                                         
35 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC                                     
36 Carlos Garcia Quesada (Spa) Unibet.Com                              
37 Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                 
38 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner                                     
39 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel                                  
40 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC                                           
41 Giovanni Lombardi (Ita) Team CSC                                    
42 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone            
43 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                             
44 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                     
45 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC                                         
46 Andrea Rossi (Ita) Acqua Sapone                                     
47 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) T-Mobile Team                                  
48 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance                             
49 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Agritubel                                     
50 Jure Zrimsek (Slo) Acqua Sapone                                     
51 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone               
52 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni    
53 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                               
54 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance                                
55 Denis Bertolini (Ita) Acqua Sapone                                  
56 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Credit Agricole                   
57 Philippe Schnyder (Swi) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni       
58 Michael Rich (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                     
59 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                      
60 Antoine Dalibard (Fra) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                     
61 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance                                
62 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                             
63 Julien Mazet (Fra) Auber 93                                         
64 Mickael Delage (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                             
65 Sébastien Duret (Fra) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                      
66 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Unibet.Com                                 
67 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Credit Agricole                               
68 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner                                  
69 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole                               
70 Noan Lelarge (Fra) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                         
71 David Le Lay (Fra) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                         
72 Florian Morizot (Fra) Auber 93                                      
73 Stéphane Petilleau (Fra) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                   
74 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Miche                                          
75 Emilien Berges (Fra) Auber 93                                       
76 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                     
77 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                         
78 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2R Prevoyance                                  
79 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                       
80 Denis Robin (Fra) Agritubel                                     0.40
81 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche                                       1.48
82 Moises Duenas (Spa) Agritubel                                       
83 Seweryn Zenon Kohut (Pol) Miche                                     
84 Petter Renang (Swe) Unibet.Com                             
85 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance                               
86 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                
87 Samuel Plouhinec (Fra) Agritubel                           
88 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone               
89 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                          
90 Mirko Allegrini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                 6.13
91 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                     
92 Guillermo Bongiorno (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                 
93 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone                 
94 Saul Raisin (USA) Credit Agricole                          
 
Points classification
 
1 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                  25 pts
2 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni          20
3 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                              16
4 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance                                14
5 William Bonnet (Fra) Credit Agricole                               12
6 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                               11
7 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                            10
8 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Acqua Sapone                                9
9 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance                                8
10 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                                8
11 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole                             8
12 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93                                         7
13 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Auber 93                                      6
14 Andrus Aug (Est) Acqua Sapone                                      4
15 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                    3
16 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.Com                                   3
17 Tommaso Caneschi (Ita) Miche                                       2
18 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC                                      1
19 Camille Bouquet (Fra) Unibet.Com                                   1
20 Mickael Delage (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                            1
 
Mountains classification
 
1 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance                               14 pts
2 Freddy Gonzalez (Col) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni         6
3 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                4
4 Andrea Rossi (Ita) Acqua Sapone                                     2
5 Mirko Allegrini (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                     1
 
Young rider classification
 
1 Anthony Ravard (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                
2 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance                              0.04
3 William Bonnet (Fra) Credit Agricole                                 
4 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                              
5 Sébastien Portal (Fra) Credit Agricole                               
6 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Auber 93                                           
7 Mathieu Drujon (Fra) Auber 93                                        
8 Christopher Sutton (Aus) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone            
9 Fabien Patanchon (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                            
10 Bastiaan Giling (Ned) T-Mobile Team                                 
11 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                          
12 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team                                 
13 Stef Clement (Ned) Bouygues Telecom                                 
14 Jure Zrimsek (Slo) Acqua Sapone                                     
15 Vincent Jerome (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                               
16 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                          
17 Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone                 
18 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                             0.25
19 Mickael Delage (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux                         0.29
20 Piotr Zielinski (Pol) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                  0.30
21 Antoine Dalibard (Fra) G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                     
22 Florian Morizot (Fra) Auber 93                                      
23 Emilien Berges (Fra) Auber 93                                       
24 Paride Grillo (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                       
25 Saul Raisin (USA) Credit Agricole                                   
 
Teams classification
 
1 Bouygues Telecom                                             15.11.39
2 Acqua Sapone                                                         
3 Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni                                
4 Auber 93                                                             
5 Miche                                                                
6 Unibet.com                                                           
7 T-Mobile Team                                                        
8 Gerolsteiner                                                         
9 Francaise Des Jeux                                                   
10 Team CSC                                                            
11 Ag2R Prevoyance                                                     
12 Agritubel                                                           
13 Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone                                    
14 Credit Agricole                                                 0.26
15 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                                           
16 G.S.Bretagne-Jean Floc'h                                        1.18