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65th Tour de Pologne - ProT

Poland, September 14-20, 2008

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Stage 1 - September 14: Warszawa - Warszawa, 4.0km

Team CSC proves the strongest

By Daniel Marszalek in Warszawa

Olympic Champion Fabian Cancellara leads CSC-Saxo Bank on its winning run in the Tour de Pologne
Photo ©: Roberto Bettini
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Danish Team CSC clocked the fastest time over the quick, but technical course four-kilometre course in the centre of Warsaw. Danish time trial champion Lars Bak, being the first rider over the line, takes yellow leader's jersey.

The opening stage of the 65th Tour de Pologne started with Team Milram, which produced time of four minutes 12 seconds. It was good enough for an eventual eight place on the day.

Quick Step bettered the German team by one second. A quarter of an hour later, Liquigas, known as a strong TTT contender, went trough the course with average of 58 km/h and took the lead with time under four minutes and nine seconds.

The time stood as the best for a long time with even after Team Columbia, Rabobank, Caisse d'Epargne and last year's winner, Lampre.

The time in the driver's seat was finally over for Liquigas when powerful Team CSC-Saxo Bank started the course around Theatre Square. The CSC boys, led by Olympic and World TT champion Fabian Cancellara, set the fastest time at the intermediate check after two kilometres, and didn't slow down in the latter part of the trial.

Lars Bak takes the race lead for CSC-Saxo Bank
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They finished the course with over three second advantage on Liquigas, crossing the line with its six riders: Bak, Cancellara, the Schleck brothers, Larsson and Voigt. Its time was four minutes and five seconds.

The drama was not over though. Behind CSC, next to start was Silence-Lotto, team of last year's winner Johan Van Summeren. He began the trial very fast, leading his team for first couple of hundreds metres. Unfortunately, on one of the corners the second rider in line fell, taking with him two others and stopping the fourth man. They not only had to slow down, but even wait for their fifth rider since his time counted for stage and general standings. No wonder that their time was in the end the slowest with 33 seconds deficit to Team CSC.

The Last team to start was long awaited Polish National Team, Polska-BGZ, which didn't have a great ride – it's time of over four minutes and 19 seconds was good enough for just sixteenth place.

Photography

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Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net

Results

1 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                     4.05 (58.78 km/h)
2 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                           
3 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                       
4 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                            
5 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                     
6 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                              
7 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas                               0.03
8 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas                                      
9 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas                                       
10 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas                                     
11 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas                                    
12 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                 0.04
13 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                      
14 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne               
15 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne                           
16 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne                             
17 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Caisse d'Epargne                 
18 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                       
19 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas                            0.05
20 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank                                   0.06
21 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank                                       
22 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank                                    
23 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank                                      
24 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank                                     
25 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank                                      
26 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre                                     
27 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre                                         
28 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre                                    
29 Andrea Grendene (Ita) Lampre                                      
30 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre                                       
31 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank                                     
32 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre                                          
33 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia                           0.07
34 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia                                   
35 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia                                
36 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia                                 
37 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia                              
38 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team Columbia                                
39 Alessandro Proni (Ita) Quick Step                                 
40 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step                               
41 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step                               
42 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step                                  
43 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) Quick Step                                
44 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram                                      
45 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram                                
46 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram                                      
47 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram                                
48 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram                                    
49 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step                                
50 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia                                  
51 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step                                   
52 Allan Davis (Bel) Quick Step                                      
53 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne                           
54 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux                   0.08
55 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux                            
56 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux                          
57 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Française des Jeux                               
58 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux                          
59 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                             0.09
60 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner                                   
61 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner                                  
62 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                 
63 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                    
64 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                  
65 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank                                    
66 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone    0.10
67 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone             
68 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone             
69 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone                 
70 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone           
71 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone     
72 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone            
73 Chris Horner (USA) Astana                                     0.11
74 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana                                
75 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana                                         
76 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana                                        
77 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana                                          
78 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole                           0.12
79 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole                         
80 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole                                
81 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole                         
82 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole                             
83 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi                 
84 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi                      
85 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi              
86 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi               
87 Andoni Lafuente (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi                         
88 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi                  
89 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi                 
90 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                          0.13
91 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom                                
92 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                               
93 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                             
94 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                
95 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                           
96 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole                       0.12
97 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Crédit Agricole                           
98 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                    0.13
99 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana                                        
100 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana                                        
101 Krzysztof Jezowski (Pol) Polish National Team                0.14
102 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Polish National Team                          
103 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Polish National Team                         
104 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Polish National Team                      
105 Bartlomiej Matysiak (Pol) Polish National Team                   
106 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Polish National Team                    
107 David Cañada (Spa) Scott - American Beef                     0.15
108 Manuele Mori (Ita) Scott - American Beef                         
109 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Scott - American Beef                        
110 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef                      
111 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Scott - American Beef    
112 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas                               
113 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Scott - American Beef        0.17
114 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Milram                            0.18
115 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram                                  
116 Marcin Sapa (Pol) Polish National Team                           
117 Tomasz Kiendys (Pol) Polish National Team                        
118 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Columbia                      0.20
119 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas                                   
120 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale                    0.21
121 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale                            
122 Tanel Kangert (Est) AG2R La Mondiale                             
123 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale                            
124 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale                            
125 Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom                        0.26
126 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                 0.27
127 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                 0.30
128 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre                                 0.32
129 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto                            0.33
130 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto                         
131 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence - Lotto                           
132 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto                                
133 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence - Lotto                             
134 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram                            0.39
135 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                    0.43
136 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Scott - American Beef                  
137 Javier Megías Leal (Spa) Scott - American Beef                   
138 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre                                   0.45
139 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone       0.53
140 René Mandri (Est) AG2R La Mondiale                           0.57
141 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Silence - Lotto                      0.33
142 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence - Lotto                      
143 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto                           
DNS Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Astana                                      
 
Teams
 
1 Team CSC Saxo Bank                                          4.05.5
2 Liquigas                                                    0.03.1
3 Caisse d'Epargne                                            0.03.8
4 Rabobank                                                    0.05.6
5 Lampre                                                      0.05.9
6 Team Columbia                                               0.06.6
7 Quick Step - Innergetic                                     0.06.8
8 Team Milram                                                 0.06.9
9 Française des Jeux                                          0.07.9
10 Gerolsteiner                                               0.08.6
11 Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone                          0.10.2
12 Astana                                                     0.10.6
13 Crédit Agricole                                            0.12.1
14 Euskaltel - Euskadi                                        0.12.3
15 Bouygues Telecom                                           0.12.7
16 Polish National Team                                       0.14.1
17 Scott - American Beef                                      0.14.6
18 AG2R - La Mondiale                                         0.21.4
19 Silence - Lotto                                            0.32.5

General classification after stage 1
 
1 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                     4.05
2 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                           
3 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                       
4 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                            
5 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                     
6 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                              
7 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas                               0.03
8 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas                                      
9 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas                                       
10 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas                                     
11 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas                                    
12 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                 0.04
13 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                      
14 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne               
15 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne                           
16 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne                             
17 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Caisse d'Epargne                 
18 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                       
19 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas                            0.05
20 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank                                   0.06
21 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank                                       
22 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank                                    
23 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank                                      
24 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank                                     
25 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank                                      
26 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre                                     
27 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre                                         
28 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre                                    
29 Andrea Grendene (Ita) Lampre                                      
30 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre                                       
31 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank                                     
32 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre                                          
33 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia                           0.07
34 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia                                   
35 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia                                
36 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia                                 
37 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia                              
38 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team Columbia                                
39 Alessandro Proni (Ita) Quick Step                                 
40 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step                               
41 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step                               
42 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step                                  
43 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) Quick Step                                
44 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram                                      
45 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram                                
46 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram                                      
47 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram                                
48 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram                                    
49 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step                                
50 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia                                  
51 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step                                   
52 Allan Davis (Bel) Quick Step                                      
53 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne                           
54 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux                   0.08
55 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux                            
56 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux                          
57 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Française des Jeux                               
58 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux                          
59 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                             0.09
60 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner                                   
61 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner                                  
62 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                 
63 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                    
64 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                  
65 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank                                    
66 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone    0.10
67 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone             
68 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone             
69 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone                 
70 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone           
71 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone     
72 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone            
73 Chris Horner (USA) Astana                                     0.11
74 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana                                
75 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana                                         
76 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana                                        
77 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana                                          
78 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole                           0.12
79 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole                         
80 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole                                
81 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole                         
82 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole                             
83 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi                 
84 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi                      
85 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi              
86 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi               
87 Andoni Lafuente (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi                         
88 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi                  
89 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi                 
90 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                          0.13
91 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom                                
92 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                               
93 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                             
94 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                                
95 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                           
96 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole                       0.12
97 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Crédit Agricole                           
98 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                    0.13
99 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana                                        
100 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana                                        
101 Krzysztof Jezowski (Pol) Polish National Team                0.14
102 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Polish National Team                          
103 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Polish National Team                         
104 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Polish National Team                      
105 Bartlomiej Matysiak (Pol) Polish National Team                   
106 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Polish National Team                    
107 David Cañada (Spa) Scott - American Beef                     0.15
108 Manuele Mori (Ita) Scott - American Beef                         
109 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Scott - American Beef                        
110 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef                      
111 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Scott - American Beef    
112 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas                               
113 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Scott - American Beef        0.17
114 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Milram                            0.18
115 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram                                  
116 Marcin Sapa (Pol) Polish National Team                           
117 Tomasz Kiendys (Pol) Polish National Team                        
118 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Columbia                      0.20
119 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas                                   
120 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale                    0.21
121 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale                            
122 Tanel Kangert (Est) AG2R La Mondiale                             
123 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale                            
124 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale                            
125 Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom                        0.26
126 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                 0.27
127 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC - Saxo Bank                 0.30
128 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre                                 0.32
129 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto                            0.33
130 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto                         
131 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence - Lotto                           
132 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto                                
133 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence - Lotto                             
134 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram                            0.39
135 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale                    0.43
136 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Scott - American Beef                  
137 Javier Megías Leal (Spa) Scott - American Beef                   
138 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre                                   0.45
139 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone       0.53
140 René Mandri (Est) AG2R La Mondiale                           0.57
141 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Silence - Lotto                      0.33
142 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence - Lotto                      
143 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto                           
DNF Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Astana                                      
 
Teams
 
1 Team CSC - Saxo Bank                                          12.15
2 Liquigas                                                       0.09
3 GCE                                                            0.12
4 Rabobank                                                       0.18
5 Lampre                                                             
6 Team Columbia                                                  0.21
7 Quick Step                                                         
8 Team Milram                                                        
9 Française Des Jeux                                             0.24
10 Gerolsteiner                                                  0.27
11 Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone                              0.30
12 Astana                                                        0.33
13 Credit Agricole                                               0.36
14 Euskaltel - Euskadi                                               
15 Bouygues Telecom                                              0.39
16 Polish National Team                                          0.42
17 Scott - American Beef                                         0.45
18 AG2R La Mondiale                                              1.03
19 Silence-Lotto                                                 1.39

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