Boonen Sprints to Win

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Gerald increased his lead today with 2 show points for the classic Eric Zabel. It looked like the group was resting today for the next four decisive stages: 13 TT, 14 Mountain, 15 Mountain, 16 Mountain! Here is an interesting statistic from last years Tour compiled by a guy named John Hay Jr., a Cycling News reader. (stolen from their site!) Thanks Cycling New, you guys rock!

John wrote:

I did a bit of checking on how the current contenders fared in last year's two Individual Time Trials. Last year's ITT's were 52 km and 54 km rides. Combining the results (and,trust me, there may be error in my adding and subtracting hours and minutes, but it's relatively close), here's some of our current contenders' combined 2006 TdF ITT times, starting with the fastest and showing the deficits from there.

Each 2007 contender's current place in the GC is in ( ):

(2) Andreas Kloden, 2h 11'52"
(13) Oscar Pereiro, 2h14'48" - 2'56" behind Kloden's time
(4) Cadel Evans, 2h14'58" - 3'06"
(18) Denis Menchov, 2h15'44" -3'52"
(6) Carlos Sastre, 2h16'11" -4'19"
(14) Christophe Moreau, 2h17'01" -6'19"
(9) Levi Leipheimer, 2h21'35" -9'43"
(10) Mikel Aztarloza, 2h21'52" -10'00"
(1) Michael Rasmussen, 2h24'48" -12'56"

Thanks to John Hay Jr.

-Adam