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Sunday, July 17, 2005

Stage 15: Hincapie well deserved

Hincapie won today his first ever TDF stage. After being the ultimate teammate for Lance for so long now, I can only say that's well deserved.
Hincapie managed to catch a break of 14 men, that at some point had 18 minutes advantage on the peloton.
The breakaway group contained Hincapie (Discovery Channel), Pereiro (Phonak), Oscar Sevilla (T-Mobile Team), Michael Boogerd (Rabobank), Pietro Caucchioli (Credit Agricole) and Laurent Brochard (Bouygues Telecom), Pereiro doing most of the work managed to pull away from everybody with only Hincapie on his wheels, Pereiro eventually finshed second and was awarded the combativity jersey.
Lance finished with Basso 5 minutes back but one minute ahead of Ullrich who couldn't stay with the 2 for the second straight day.
Basso moved to second overall overtaking Rasmussen, a fight for the third podium place will be between Rasmussen and Ullrich with Rasmussen having 1minute 50 seconds advantage, but Ullrich will pull back some time of the time trial.
Tomorrow is a rest day and tuesday is the last day in the mountains, final chance for people to attack Lance. Should be as exciting as today.

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