Suíça: Frank Schleck melhor do que Armstrong4 Comentários

A última grande oportunidade de vitória de Lance Armstrong antes da Volta a França esgotou-se quando o luxemburguês Frank Schleck se sagrou vencedor da Volta à Suíça, com 12 segundos de avanço sobre o hepta-vencedor do Tour. A derradeira etapa da prova helvética – um contra-relógio individual de 26.9 quilómetros – foi conquistada pelo alemão Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia) e alterou de forma radical a classificação, no cair do anterior comandante Robert Gesink (Rabobank).

O principal vencedor do dia acabou por revelar-se em Frank Schleck, quarto classificado da geral no início da derradeira etapa. O mais velho da dupla de irmãos da Saxo Bank foi 13º no contra-relógio e, ainda assim, ultrapassou na tabela todos os adversários. Armstrong foi sétimo no “crono” e acabou derrotado na Suíça por apenas 12 segundos. No pódio final, Schleck e Armstrong foram acompanhados pelo dinamarquês Jakob Fuglsang (Saxo Bank) ao passo que Gesink foi despromovido ao quinto posto final.

“Estou algo surpreendido porque não sou um especialista do contra-relógio”, afirmou Schleck. “Mas juntamente com o meu irmão (Andy) fizemos trabalho específico e resultou”, referiu o sucessor de Fabian Cancellara no palmarés da prova. Schleck dedicou a vitória ao compatriota Kim Kirchen, hospitalizado na sexta-feira após uma crise cardíaca.

Nas classificações do contra-relógio Martin suplantou por 17 segundos o primeiro líder desta competição, Fabian Cancellara.

Rui Costa foi 62º classificado da última etapa, alinhado de forma descontraída após a vitória do dia anterior. Na geral, o ciclista poveiro – que se encontra na “shor-list” de 14 ciclistas da Caisse d’Epargne para o Tour – terminou a sua primeira segunda Volta a Suíça na 34ª posição.

CLASSIFICAÇÕES
9ª etapa: Liestal, 26.9 km (CRI)
1 Tony Martin (Ger) Team HTC – Columbia 0:32:21
2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team Saxo Bank 0:00:17
3 David Zabriskie (USA) Garmin – Transitions 0:00:29
4 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 0:00:48
5 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team Radioshack
6 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team Radioshack 0:00:52
7 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank
8 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team HTC – Columbia 0:00:57
9 Wouter Poels (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:01:02
10 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 0:01:07
11 Lance Armstrong (USA) Team Radioshack 0:01:09
12 Nicolas Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 0:01:14
13 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank
14 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:01:20
15 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0:01:21
16 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo Test Team 0:01:22
17 George Hincapie (USA) BMC Racing Team
18 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 0:01:26
19 Luis Leòn Sánchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 0:01:32
20 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas-Doimo 0:01:33
21 Steve Morabito (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:01:39
22 Robert Hunter (RSA) Garmin – Transitions 0:01:43
23 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:01:51
24 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:01:52
25 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Cervelo Test Team 0:01:53
26 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 0:01:54
27 Jason Mccartney (USA) Team Radioshack 0:01:56
28 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d’Epargne
29 Michael Albasini (Swi) Team HTC – Columbia 0:01:59
30 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Rabobank 0:02:01
31 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 0:02:09
32 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quick Step 0:02:11
33 Juan José Oroz (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 0:02:12
34 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
35 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 0:02:13
36 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 0:02:14
37 Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:02:17
38 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux
39 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:02:19
40 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank
41 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Team Katusha
42 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:02:23
43 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 0:02:24
44 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Team Radioshack 0:02:25
45 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Footon-Servetto 0:02:28
46 Sergey Renev (Kaz) Astana
47 Martijn Maaskant NEd Garmin – Transitions (Ned) Garmin – Transitions
48 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) BMC Racing Team 0:02:29
49 Tom Danielson (USA) Garmin – Transitions 0:02:37
50 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Liquigas-Doimo
51 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale
52 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:02:41
53 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Milram 0:02:42
54 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Team Radioshack 0:02:43
55 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin – Transitions 0:02:51
56 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini
57 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team Radioshack
58 Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:02:53
59 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:02:55
60 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 0:02:57
61 Juan Manuel Gárate Cepa (Spa) Rabobank 0:03:00
62 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Caisse d’Epargne 0:03:02
63 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:03:04
64 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step
65 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank 0:03:07
66 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick Step
67 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Caisse d’Epargne
68 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 0:03:08
69 Edouard Vorganov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:03:09
70 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Astana 0:03:11
71 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi
72 Rafael Valls Ferri (Spa) Footon-Servetto 0:03:13
73 Karsten Kroon (Ned) BMC Racing Team
74 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 0:03:14
75 Matthias Russ (Ger) Team Milram 0:03:17
76 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:03:22
77 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi
78 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:03:23
79 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 0:03:25
80 Daniel Oss (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo
81 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 0:03:26
82 Maxim Gourov (Kaz) Astana 0:03:27
83 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Team Milram 0:03:30
84 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:03:32
85 Grégory Rast (Swi) Team Radioshack 0:03:33
86 Michal Golas (Pol) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
87 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0:03:37
88 Aliaksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas-Doimo 0:03:41
89 Yevgeni Nepomnyachshiy (Kaz) Astana 0:03:42
90 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:03:44
91 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 0:03:46
92 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 0:03:48
93 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 0:03:52
94 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team Katusha 0:03:55
95 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 0:04:04
96 Lars Petter Nordhaug (Nor) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:04:06
97 Andreas Klier (Ger) Cervelo Test Team 0:04:08
98 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo 0:04:09
99 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:04:15
100 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 0:04:17
101 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:04:19
102 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Cervelo Test Team 0:04:21
103 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank
104 Francisco Javier Aramendia Llorente (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 0:04:24
105 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Footon-Servetto 0:04:27
106 Allan Davis (Aus) Astana 0:04:41
107 Marco Corti (Ita) Footon-Servetto 0:04:52
108 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team HTC – Columbia 0:05:05
109 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team HTC – Columbia 0:05:10
110 Morris Possoni (Ita) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:05:11
111 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) Française Des Jeux 0:05:19
112 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Garmin – Transitions 0:05:25
113 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 0:05:27
114 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo 0:05:40
115 Noè Gianetti (Swi) Footon-Servetto 0:07:12
HD Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Cervelo Test Team
DNS Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin – Transitions
DNS Dries Devenyns (Bel) Quick Step
DNS Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step
DNS Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo Bank
DNS Robbie Mcewen (Aus) Team Katusha
DNS Artur Gajek (Ger) Team Milram
DNS Stuart O’Grady (Aus) Team Saxo Bank

Geral individual
1 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 35:02:00
2 Lance Armstrong (USA) Team Radioshack 0:00:12
3 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Team Saxo Bank 0:00:17
4 Steve Morabito (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:00:23
5 Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank 0:00:27
6 Tony Martin (Ger) Team HTC – Columbia
7 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d’Epargne 0:00:33
8 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team Radioshack 0:00:48
9 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Team Katusha 0:01:09
10 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team Radioshack 0:01:14
11 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team Saxo Bank 0:01:20
12 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:01:38
13 Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Liquigas-Doimo 0:01:46
14 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank 0:01:57
15 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
16 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas-Doimo 0:02:05
17 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 0:02:12
18 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team HTC – Columbia 0:03:13
19 Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 0:04:36
20 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:04:47
21 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 0:04:58
22 Carlos Barredo Llamazales (Spa) Quick Step 0:05:19
23 Rafael Valls Ferri (Spa) Footon-Servetto 0:05:43
24 Nicolas Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 0:06:00
25 Tom Danielson (USA) Garmin – Transitions 0:07:43
26 Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Milram 0:09:34
27 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0:10:20
28 Juan José Oroz (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 0:10:21
29 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 0:11:24
30 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank 0:11:45
31 George Hincapie (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:11:48
32 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:14:46
33 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:15:26
34 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Caisse d’Epargne 0:18:13
35 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 0:18:34
36 Luis Leòn Sánchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 0:20:06
37 Wouter Poels (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:21:54
38 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 0:22:30
39 Marco Marcato (Ita) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 0:22:39
40 Sergey Renev (Kaz) Astana 0:22:57
41 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 0:23:00
42 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne 0:23:29
43 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:23:30
44 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:23:38
45 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 0:25:36
46 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step 0:25:46
47 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 0:26:01
48 David Zabriskie (USA) Garmin – Transitions 0:26:02
49 Juan Manuel Gárate Cepa (Spa) Rabobank 0:26:46
50 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team Katusha 0:26:47
51 Lars Petter Nordhaug (Nor) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:27:15
52 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Footon-Servetto 0:27:55
53 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team Saxo Bank 0:28:55
54 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo 0:32:06
55 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0:32:44
56 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team Saxo Bank 0:32:54
57 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0:33:19
58 Edouard Vorganov (Rus) Team Katusha 0:33:43
59 Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spa) Astana 0:35:00
60 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Team Radioshack 0:35:09
61 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Team Milram 0:35:58
62 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 0:36:40
63 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 0:38:35
64 Pablo Urtasun Perez (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 0:41:01
65 Michael Albasini (Swi) Team HTC – Columbia 0:45:02
66 Martijn Maaskant NEd Garmin – Transitions (Ned) Garmin – Transitions 0:45:15
67 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank 0:47:43
68 Mathias Frank (Swi) BMC Racing Team 0:48:37
69 Wesley Sulzberger (Aus) Française Des Jeux 0:48:38
70 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Garmin – Transitions 0:48:51
71 Björn Schröder (Ger) Team Milram 0:48:59
72 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) BMC Racing Team 0:49:37
73 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) AG2R La Mondiale 0:50:21
74 Morris Possoni (Ita) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:52:25
75 Grégory Rast (Swi) Team Radioshack 0:52:50
76 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo 0:53:22
77 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:53:45
78 Xavier Florencio Cabre (Spa) Cervelo Test Team 0:54:14
79 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) BMC Racing Team 0:54:22
80 Michiel Elijzen (Ned) Omega Pharma-Lotto 0:54:36
81 Francisco Javier Aramendia Llorente (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 0:55:52
82 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale 0:57:45
83 Maxim Gourov (Kaz) Astana 0:58:05
84 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 0:58:57
85 Robert Hunter (RSA) Garmin – Transitions 1:01:01
86 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Rabobank 1:01:53
87 Daniel Oss (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo 1:01:56
88 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo Test Team 1:02:42
89 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick Step 1:03:03
90 Michal Golas (Pol) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 1:03:09
91 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Cervelo Test Team 1:04:57
92 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick Step 1:05:04
93 Aliaksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas-Doimo 1:05:05
94 Allan Davis (Aus) Astana 1:06:27
95 Matthias Russ (Ger) Team Milram 1:06:58
96 Dimitri Muravyev (Kaz) Team Radioshack 1:07:47
97 Karsten Kroon (Ned) BMC Racing Team 1:08:00
98 Tom Leezer (Ned) Rabobank 1:08:36
99 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini 1:08:56
100 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Garmin – Transitions 1:10:59
101 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Omega Pharma-Lotto 1:11:33
102 Jason Mccartney (USA) Team Radioshack 1:11:40
103 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana 1:12:09
104 Marco Corti (Ita) Footon-Servetto 1:12:14
105 Yevgeni Nepomnyachshiy (Kaz) Astana 1:15:06
106 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Team Radioshack 1:15:50
107 Andreas Klier (Ger) Cervelo Test Team 1:15:58
108 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Caisse d’Epargne 1:17:39
109 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Footon-Servetto 1:18:58
110 Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team 1:19:50
111 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) BMC Racing Team 1:21:07
112 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team HTC – Columbia 1:25:53
113 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team HTC – Columbia 1:25:59
114 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi 1:28:44
115 Noè Gianetti (Swi) Footon-Servetto 1:30:28

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