With 8.5km to go, the escape is over. The peloton is all together and HTC, Lampre and Cervelo are at the front.
Lampre and HTC-Columbia are the two dominant forces at the front of the peloton but Cervelo and Garmin also have good representation.
17:23 - Maartin Wynants Wins Fighting Spirit Award The Belgian who was on the attack today has been voted the winner of the Fighting Spirit award (otherwise know as the ’most aggressive riders’ prize). Maartin Wynants will wear a red dossard in the second stage.
After he sat on Pliuschin's wheel for the last hour?
Lampre and HTC-Columbia are the two dominant forces at the front of the peloton but Cervelo and Garmin also have good representation.
17:23 - Maartin Wynants Wins Fighting Spirit Award The Belgian who was on the attack today has been voted the winner of the Fighting Spirit award (otherwise know as the ’most aggressive riders’ prize). Maartin Wynants will wear a red dossard in the second stage.
After he sat on Pliuschin's wheel for the last hour?