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RACE REPORTS: PARIS-NICE STAGE SEVEN: CONTADOR CONFIRMS
Road Bike Action & AFP
March 14, 2010
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Two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Astana won Paris-Nice on Sunday for his second win in the event, three years after his first. Frenchman Amael Moinard of Cofidis won the final stage, a 119-kilometer ride around Nice. Contador's fellow Spaniard Alejandro Valverde was second overall 11-seconds adrift with outgoing champion Luis Leon Sanchez third at 25-seconds. To win the day, Moinard held off another Frenchman, Thomas Voeckler, with the pair having made a long escape for the line.
Valverde led the peloton home as he came in third on the stage at 3-seconds ahead of Irishman Nicolas Roche - son of former Tour de France champion Stephen - and Estonian champion Rein Taaramae. Contador held on for his win despite the best efforts of Valverde and Sanchez to crack him on the tough Eze climb. Contador's group managed to stay within around 20-seconds of Moinard and Voeckler as the riders hit the summit of the climb some 16-kilometers from the finish.
Moinard, 28, gave the French fans their second stage winner of the week after William Bonnet took stage three at Limoges.
Paris-Nice Stage 7: Nice 119km
1. Amaël Moinard (Fra/Cofidis) 2:52:09
2. Thomas Voeckler (Fra/Bbox Bouygues Telecom) @ s.t.
3. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Caisse d'Epargne) @ .03
4. Nicolas Roche (Irl/AG2R La Mondiale) @ s.t.
5. Reine Taaramae (Est/Cofidis)
6. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa/Katusha)
7. Jens Voigt (Ger/Saxo Bank)
8. Christopher Horner (USA/RadioShack)
9. Janez Brajkovic (Slo/RadioShack)
10. Alberto Contador (Spa/Astana)
Final Overall Classification
1. Alberto Contador (Spa/Astana) 28:35:35
2. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Caisse d'Epargne) @ .11
3. Roman Kreuziger (Cze/Liquigas-Doimo) @ .25
4. Luis-Leon Sanchez (Spa/Caisse d'Epargne) @ .26
5. Samuel Sanchez (Spa/Euskaltel-Euskadi) @ .30
6. Jens Voigt (Ger/Saxo Bank) @ .35
7. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa/Katusha) @ .37
8. Reine Taaramae (Est/Cofidis) @ 1:07
9. Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra/Omega Pharma - Lotto) @ 1:16
10. Jérôme Coppel (Fra/Saur-Sojasun) @ 1:17 |
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