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Stages > Stage 6 - Semur-en-Auxois to Bourg-en-Bresse - (199.5km)
Jul. 13, 2007
Stage 6 - Semur-en-Auxois to Bourg-en-Bresse - (199.5km)
Despite some early hills through the Burgundy and Côte d’Or wine country, this transitional stage closes with45km of long, flat roads into the center of Bourg-en-Bresse — where a mass sprint seems certain. Bourg is a city of 40,000 people that’s the capital of the Ain department.
Jul. 13, 2007
Boonen sprints to stage win, points jersey; Cancellara holds lead All the talk of big Tom Boonen not being able to hang with the pure sprinters was silenced Friday, as the burly Belgian took a commanding win at the ...
Jul. 13, 2007
Boonen's ride After the finish of stage 2 in Ghent, Belgium, the Quickstep-Innergetic team bus was mobbed. At the sight of Tom Boonen leaving the podium pen with ...
Jul. 13, 2007
Stage 6 - A Casey Gibson Gallery A long, hot day punctuated by a 190-kilometer solo effort by Cofids's Bradley Wiggins and our man Casey Gibson was there to capture it for ...
Jul. 13, 2007
Stage Notes: Noval in gauze; Freire has his doubts; Cavendish's bad luck Benjamin Noval vows to fight on despite a horrible crash in Thursday’s stage when he smashed into a car window that Discovery Channel officials say ...
Jul. 13, 2007
Bradley’s big day out Cofidis rider Bradley Wiggins made no secret that he was disappointed after finishing fourth in the Tour de France’s opening prologue in London. ...
Jul. 13, 2007
Stage stats: Stage 6 Weather: Sunny, warmer, highs in mid 80s, moderate head-crosswinds.
Stage winner: Tom Boonen (QuickStep-Innergetic) ended a two-year Tour dry spell ...
Jul. 13, 2007
Zabel loses two green jerseys in one day Germany’s veteran sprinter Erik Zabel (Milram) had not one but two Tour de France green jerseys taken from him Friday before stage 6 even finished. ...
Jul. 13, 2007
Friday the 13th brings mixed luck to Tour Friday the 13th at the Tour de France showered a mixed bag of fate on the 183 riders who began the sixth stage. Some crashed, others suffered through ...
Jul. 13, 2007
The rolling wounded: Vino, Klöden soldier on Yellow-jersey contender Alexandre Vinokourov will continue the Tour de France despite enduring a painful day in the saddle, his team manager said ...
Jul. 13, 2007
Simpson remembered: A black day 40 years ago On stage 13 of the Tour de France 40 years ago today, July 13, Tom Simpson collapsed and died on Mont Ventoux. It still seems like yesterday.
That ...
