TdF TTT
Yellow Down! Yellow Down! David Zabriskie fell before the last 1k!
CSC came in 2 seconds back of Discovery Channel!
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Wow, what a finish! Stage 4 today was the Tours - Blois Team Time Trial (TTT) of 65k. It was a battle between Discovery Channel and CSC with the Disco boys starting out slow and picking up time on CSC at every time check.
But the big news is that American David Zabriskie (CSC), who won the Stage 1 Individual Time Trial and held the Maillot Jaune for the first three stages, fell at the 3 km mark. It appears that his foot came out of his clipless pedals, with Zabriskie going over the bars and getting cut up pretty well. His CSC team had to continue on to finish the TTT, but came up 2" slower than Lance Armstrong's team Discovery Channel.
Zabriskie was a class act all three days he wore the Maillot Jaune, and we feel for him - this is no way to lose the mary jane. What a tragedy! Zabriskie was bound to lose the Maillot Jaune in the next few days, but losing it in this fashion is just unfortunate. People will be talking for days about the affect Zabriskie's fall had on CSC, falling 2 seconds slower than the Disco boys.
So Lance Armstrong is in Yellow again - a bit earlier than he probably wanted - whomever wears Yellow is in charge of leading the Peloton, thus doing more work. The next few days - Chambord - Montargis and Troyes - Nancy - will be fairly flat, but the Peloton will still be nervous and more falls will occur. Whether or not Lance would be in yellow, the Disco boys would keep him up in the front to protect him from crashes.
The General classification after stage 4 is (full results):
- Lance Armstrong (USA - DSC)
- George Hincapie (USA - DSC) at 55"
- Jens Voigt (GER) - CSC) at 1’04"
- Bobby Julich (USA - CSC) at 1’07"
- Jose Luis Rubiera (ESP - DSC) 1’14"
Other notables:
- 7 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz - T-Mobile) at 1'21"
- 10 Ivan Basso (Ita - CSC) at 1'26"
- 14 Jan Ullrich (Ger - T-Mobile) at 1'36"
- 20 Floyd Landis (USA - Phonak) at 1'50"
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