Roman Kreuziger - Team Liquigas

Everyone was sick of it

Sat March 13, 2010, 20:09

A string of attacks from favorites was expected at today's epic stage of the Paris-Nice but eventually no major changes occurred in the general classification.

Roman remains in the third position overall, one second ahead of L. Sanchez. "Fortunately, Sagan sprinted well today, took third and Samuel Sanchez didn’t gain a single second on me," Roman said. 
Apparently, during the 220-kilometer stage everyone was sick of it all. "The speed was really high. Twenty riders broke away and some of them posed a threat so we had to reduce the gap to two minutes. Everybody felt the yesterday stage in their legs. I was expecting some attacks on the last climb but Caisse d’Epargne kept all possible actions under their control. 
It looked like nobody wanted to waste energy because the tomorrow’s stage will be very hard even though it is only 120 kilometers long. Options still remain open and the gaps among the first ten riders are insignificant. There are two horrible climbs tomorrow and we will be really smoking after two days of pushing the limits," the Liquigas leader said. 
6th stage (220 km): 1st Tondo (Spa/Cervélo) 5:01:39, 2nd Valverde (Spa/Caisse d’Epargne), 3rd Sagan (Svk/Liquigas-Doimo), 4th S. Sanchez (Spa/Euskaltel), 5th Rodriguez (Spa/Katusha), ... 21st Roman Kreuziger (Cze/Liquigas-Doimo) all +5.  
Overall: 1st Contador (Spa./Astana) 25:43:24, 2nd Valverde +14, 3rd Roman Kreuziger +25, 4th L. Sanchez (Spa/Caisse d’Epargne) +26, 5th S. Sanchez +29, 6th Voigt (Ger/Saxo Bank) +34, 7th Rodriguez +36, 8th Sagan +38.

This article is also translated :
Každý toho měl plné zuby
Parigi-Nizza: classifica generale invariata - Translated by: A&J Sport as Image