Astana Cycling Team

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VINOKOUROV : WE ARE HERE FOR THE GENERAL AND WE WORKED HARD FOR IT TODAY

The Kazakh leader Alexandre Vinokourov finished third of the stage behind Cadel Evans, Damiano Cunego. "The day went well, when you have good legs, it’s always good! Today the team rode really well "said Alexandre.

Indeed, we saw the Astana team-mates in front of the peloton throughout the stage, successively with the Slovenian champion Gorazd Stangelj who hardened the pace for several km with his team mate Paolo Tiralongo. Then, the Czech Roman Kreuziger took control at 20km from the finish, he was alone in front and imposed a very high pace that the race leader Pavel Brutt couldn’t follow "Roman has done a superb day, thanks the work of our team that the yellow jersey has lost some time. There are other teams that are only targeting a stage victory and that didn’t collaborate, but from our side, we we're there for the general and we've worked hard for it today. "

Regarding the overall, the Kazakh leader is now at the fourth place at the same time as the Australian Cadel Evans "It's him I see as my main opponent for the general. There is still tomorrow's stage, but I don’t think that Pavel Brutt will keep his jersey until the end of the race.“

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