ANOTHER FAB DAY ON TOUR.SWISS rider Fabian Cancellara Fabian Cancellara (born March 18, 1981) is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. A time trial specialist, he is the current, and two time, World Time Trial Champion. In 2006 he also became the only second Swiss winner of the Classic one-day race Paris-Roubaix, following Heiri of Team CSC Team CSC (UCI Team Code: CSC) is a professional cycling team from Denmark which competes in the road bicycle racing series the UCI ProTour. The team is owned and managed by former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis, under the management of his company held on to the leader's yellow jersey for the sixth day in a row following the fifth stage of the Tour de France. Filippo Pozzato of Italy won the latest stage yesterday that saw Team Astana duo Alexandre Vinokourov and Andreas Kloeden taken to hospital after separate crashes over the 113-mile trek from the Burgundy town of Chablis to Autun. Vinokourov, of Kazakhstan, lost crucial seconds in a collision with that took place with 15 miles to go. He said: "I don't know what happened. My chain came off." Vinokourov, with cuts to his knees and backside, tried in vain to catch up to the main pack under an escort from six team-mates. Kloeden, runner-up to Lance Armstrong in 2004 and third last year, fell into a ditch about 45.3 miles from the end but was soon up and back into the pack. Astana sporting director Marc Biver said: "I am more worried about Kloeden who seems to have suffered a fracture of the coccyx coccyx (kŏk`sĭks): see spinal column. ." Pozzato won a sprint at the end of the course for his second Tour stage win, finishing ahead of Oscar Freire of Spain in second and fellow Italian Daniele Bennati. The trio and the main pack finished in 4:39:01. Cancellara leads Kloeden by 33 seconds with Liquigas rider Pozzato 35 seconds back. |
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