Roman Kreuziger - Team Liquigas

Absolutely nothing to complain about

Sat July 24, 2010, 19:42

Even after the time trial in Bordeaux Roman has remained in ninth place in the general classification and it is almost for certain that he will manage to defend his GC position from last year’s Tour de France.

He lost over seven minutes on the winner Cancellara today. "Let’s not pick in the size of the gap. There was a six-hour difference between the riders who started early and the riders who started later. When Cancellara was on the course the wind was blowing 3km/h while we had to struggle with the headwind that was reaching 25km/h. My teammates Quinziato and Oss told me that they had not ridden full gas and eventually they finished ahead of me. It was a good time trial on my part, I lost only less than two minutes on Contador who beat me in time trial by over four minutes last year. The only rider who dominated over the rest today was Menshov. He pulled off an excellent time trial. He turned out to have the most energy left," Roman said. 
"There wasn’t a single section where I could ease off for a while. I gave it absolutely everything. I knew that after 18 kilometers I had the advantage of one minute on Rodriguez and that I was fighting a close battle with Horner. Even though I wasn’t able to jump ahead of Rodriguez in the GC, I have kept ninth place which makes me absolutely satisfied," Roman revealed. 
 
19th stage (time trial - 52 km): 1st Cancellara (Swi/Saxo Bank) 1:00:56, 2nd Martin +17, 3rd Grabsch (both Ger/HTC-Columbia) +1:48, 4th Konovalovas (Lit/Cervélo) +2:34, 5th Zabriskie (USA/Garmin) +3:00, 6th Moerenhout (Ned/Rabobank) +3:03, ... 11th Mensov (Rus/Rabobank) +3:51, 35th Contador (Spa/Astana) +5:43, 40th S. Sánchez (Spa/Euskaltel) +5:51, 44th A. Schleck (Lux/Saxo Bank) +6:14, 52nd Hesjedal (Can/Garmin) +6:40, 69th Horner (USA/RadioShack) +7:08, 71st Van den Broeck (Bel/Lotto) +7:10, 79th L. Sanchez (Spa/Caisse d Epargne) +7:18, 82nd Roman Kreuziger (Cze/Liquigas) +7:25, 109th Gesink (Ned/Rabobank) +8:33, 154th Rodriguez (Spa/Katusa) +10:17.  
Overall: 1st Contador 89:16:27, 2nd A. Schleck +39, 3rd Mensov +2:01, 4th S. Sánchez +3:40, 5th Van den Broeck +6:54, 6th Gesink +9:31, 7th Hesjedal +10:15, 8th Rodriguez +11:37, 9th Roman Kreuziger +11:54, 10th Horner (USA/RadioShack) +12:02.

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