Colli wins another for Team Type 1-Sanofi

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Jakob Fuglsang showed his class by netting his second stage race victory of the summer in the Tour of Austria. Snubbed from RadioShack-Nissan's Tour de France team after winning the Tour of Luxembroug, Fuglsang proved he is one of the sport's top stage races by achieving his winning margin on the Grossglockner stage, and securing the race win in the penultimate stage time trial.

"It's particularly nice that I didn't win by merely following, but also by taking a stage win," Fuglsang said after defending his race lead for four stages. "Since I took the jersey, the team worked really hard and made it easy for me. I did what I had to do in the TT and the team helped me with everything else.

"We had a great week riding the way we did. When you ride together as a team, you have fun even though you suffer," Fuglsang said. "Upon arriving in Vienna and securing the overall, we can all be happy and proud with this win and the way we managed to defend the jersey and win the overall. Thank you to all the riders and staff that made this possible here in Austria."

Team Type 1-Sanofi continued its string of impressive results by netting the final stage sprint victory with Daniele Colli. "After a second and a fourth place finish at the Tour of Austria in Vienna, I've finally done it. My teammate Alessandro Bazzana brought me, 500 meters before the finish, in perfect position. After a very difficult week with many mountains, this victory is an incredible success", said Colli.

The breakaway on the final stage consisted of Patrick Konrad (Team Vorarlberg), Pavel Brutt (Katusha) and Johan Le Bon (Bretagne-Schuller). They built up a maximum lead of 3 minutes, but were pulled back by the sprinters' teams in the finishing circuits.

Following Colli's victory and Bazzana's stage 1 win, Team Type 1-Sanofi added a mountains classification title by Georg Preidler and points jersey overall by Bazzana to its win column in Austria.

RadioShack-Nissan, in addition to winning the overall and teams classification had the best Austrian rider, Thomas Rohregger.

Angelo Pagani (Colnago - CSF Inox) was the best young rider.

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