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2006 Tour Méditerranéen, Stage 4

Tour Méditerranéen, France

Stage 4, Saint Laurent du Var - Menton, 91K

10 February

Menton Man - Cyril Dessel

Dessel Day in Menton, photo: Tour Méditerranéen

Cyril Dessel (Ag2R Prévoyance) arrived in Menton a victorious man. The 31 year-old Frenchman covered three serious climbs in today's short stage, the last being the Col de la Madone (926m) with 15K to go, before crossing the line ahead of Russian Alexandre Botcharov (Crédit Agricole) and il Toscano Rinaldo Nocentini (Acqua & Sapone). Dessel now has the GC lead ahead of the green duo: Botcharov and Caucchioli (at 3" and 9").

The sad story of the day was for the Swede Thomas Lövkvist (Française Des Jeux). The 21 year-old started the day in second on the GC, fractions of a second behind Iván Gutiérrez (Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears). By the top of Madone the Swede looked ready to take the overall lead, only a 15K run to the line in Menton and Gutiérrez losing ground. Unfortunately Lövkvist punctured and lost valuable time when Marc Madiot, Team Manager, was able to quickly service his rider due to the narrow roads.

Down the slopes of the Col de la Madone went Dessel, Nocentini and Botcharov. Dessel put in the power play with 5K remaining to drop his companions and gain enough of a time advantage over Botcharov to move into the leader's jersey. Ho ho ho, a good win for the Frenchman on his home soil.

The game is not over yet, the top six on GC are all within a minute of Dessel. It will be knives out all the way to Sunday's finish on the Via Roma. Yes, the same Via Roma that marks the finish of the Milano-Sanremo. Crédit Agricole has two men within striking distance of the overall lead and will use this in the mental warfare over the weekend. Stay tuned ...

Results: 2:20'17"
1 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2R Prévoyance 2 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 3 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 4 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 5 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Cofidis 6 Iván Gutiérrez (Spa) 7 Paul Crake (Aus) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 8 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 9 Bradley McGee (Aus) Française Des Jeux 10 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française 11 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick-Step 12 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Ag2R Prévoyance 13 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 14 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Miche 15 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quick-Step 16 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 17 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 18 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 19 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 20 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua & Sapone 21 Johan Coenen (Bel) Unibet.com 22 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2R Prévoyance 23 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 24 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes 25 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 26 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Française 27 Martin Mares (Cze) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 28 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 29 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 30 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 31 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux 32 Joaquím Rodríguez 33 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick-Step 34 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick-Step 35 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 36 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) 37 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 38 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 39 René Weissinger (Ger) Skil-Shimano 40 Alexandre Bazhenov (Rus) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 41 Luca Ascani (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 42 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 43 Erik Zabel (Ger) Milram 44 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) 45 Moisés Dueñas (Spa) Agritubel 46 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) 47 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Quick-Step 48 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Unibet.com 49 Matthé Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 50 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 51 Thierry Marichal (Fra) Cofidis 52 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole 53 Marco Marcato (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-3C 54 Andrea Rossi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 55 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 56 Stéphane Bergès (Fra) Agritubel 57 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 58 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Milram 59 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2R Prévoyance 60 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Milram 61 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 62 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 63 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Milram 64 Juan Pablo Magallanes (Mex) Androni 65 Bingen Fernández (Spa) Cofidis 66 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis 67 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Crédit Agricole 68 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 69 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 70 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Androni 71 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Androni 72 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole 73 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 74 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) 75 Seweryn Kohut (Pol) Miche 76 Massimo Mazzanti (Ita) Androni 77 Maurizio Bellin (Ita) Androni 78 José Alberto Martínez 79 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis 80 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 81 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick-Step 82 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quick-Step 83 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux 84 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 85 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Milram 86 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Androni 87 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Skil-Shimano 88 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 89 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 90 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 91 Eric Berthou (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 92 Maurizio Carta (Ita) Miche 93 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 94 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 95 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 96 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Milram 97 Isaac Gálvez (Spa) Caisse 98 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil-Shimano 99 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole 100 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) 101 Jure Zrimsek (Slo) Acqua & Sapone 102 Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 103 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Ag2R Prévoyance 104 Crescenzo D'Amore (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 105 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prévoyance 106 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 107 Alejandro Borrajo (Arg) Miche 108 Yuri Mitlushenko (Ukr) Miche 109 Armando Rupa (Ita) Miche 110 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse DNF Mirko Celestino (Ita) Milram DNF Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Milram DNF Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Naturino-Sapore di Mare
0.06

0.19
0.23
Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 0.35
0.42
0.58
1.01
Des Jeux
1.03
1.15

1.37

Balears

Des Jeux

1.49
(Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears
2.20

Française Des Jeux 2.29
2.34
2.59
6.10
6.42
6.48

Française Des Jeux

Ag2R Prévoyance

Casalinghi 8.46

Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi

Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 9.36
Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 10.12
10.30

Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 10.35
11.32
Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi 11.50
Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi
(Spa) Agritubel 11.54
11.59

12.21

12.34
Giocattoli-3C Casalinghi
13.58

14.55
14.59

15.02

d'Epargne-Illes Balears

Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears

d'Epargne-Illes Balears 17.40

GC:
1 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2R Prévoyance 8:05'27"
2 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 0.03
3 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 0.09
4 Iván Gutiérrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 0.21
5 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua & Sapone 0.27
6 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 0.47
7 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Cofidis 1.12
8 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital 1.32
9 Bradley McGee (Aus) Française Des Jeux 1.43
10 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick-Step 1.59
11 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2.03
12 Alexandr Arekeev (Rus) Acqua & Sapone 2.14
13 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 2.18
14 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2.26
15 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2R Prévoyance 2.35
16 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quick-Step 2.39
17 Antonio D'Aniello (Ita) Miche 2.57
18 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 2.58
19 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 3.45
20 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 3.56
21 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 4.04
22 Paul Crake (Aus) Naturino-Sapore di Mare 4.12
23 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 4.22
24 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche 4.29
25 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 4.38
26 Johan Coenen (Bel) Unibet.com 4.43
27 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick-Step 4.55
28 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick-Step
29 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Française Des Jeux 6.09
30 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 6.10
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