Roman Kreuziger – Unofficial
Robert Kiserlovsky dropped out of the front position in the GC when he lost more than 15 minutes. “Unfortunately, he crashed 4km into the race. He was about to go on the attack but somebody crossed his way, touched his bars and he fell down head first. Luckily, it was nothing serious, only his lip was cut and one tooth chipped. The pace was so high that he was unable to make it back to the front group. He was going to play the key role for us in the mountains, too bad he dropped out of the front positions but there is nothing we can do,” Roman said.After some 60km of racing a group of several riders broke away and Le Mevel, who was sitting in third place overall, was there posing a threat. “The young rider Kruijswijk from Rabobank was in that breakaway as well and he could jeopardize my white jersey. This is why I sent Jufre up to the front to take turns with the guys from other teams. Luckily, we brought them back but I have to say that it was a hell of a tough stage today, absolutely uncontrolled,” described the Astana´s leader who tried to sprint at the end. “But I shifted down to a way low gear,” he added.Stage 11 (Teramo-Castefidardo, 142 km): 1st Gadret (Fra/AG2R) 3:33:11, 2nd Rodriguez (Spa/Katusha), 3rd Visconti (Ita/Farnese Vini), 4th Serpa (Col/Androni), 5th Contador (Spa/Saxo Bank), 6th Roman Kreuziger (Cze/Astana).Overall Standings: 1st Contador 40:37:51, 2nd Sivcov (Blr/HTC) +59, 3rd Nibali (Ita/Liquigas) +1:21, 4th Le Mevel (Fra/Garmin), 5th Scarponi (Ita/Lampre) +1:28, 6th Arroyo (Šp./Movistar) +1:37, 7th Roman Kreuziger +1:41, 8th Serpa +1:47.