2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10#Stage 7

The 7th stage of the 2007 Tour de France on July 14, the French national holiday, was 197.5 km long and took the riders from Bourg -en- Bresse eastward through the southeastern region of Rhône -Alpes, by the individual departments of Ain and Haute -Savoie, Le Grand -Bornand in the Alps. The first mountain stage of the tour had a total of four climbs on, including the Col de la Colombière the first major obstacle for the drivers.

As might be expected, the stage began uneasily with many breakaways. Nevertheless, the peloton rode through closed the first intermediate sprint at kilometer race 16.5. After that larger groups tried again depose, but they were also once again caught by the peloton. It was not until the rise to the first mountain stage disintegrated the large peloton, and again, several drivers got together, who tried to initiate a successful escape.

After about 40 kilometers driven racing then formed a seven -man breakaway group that consisted of Paolo Savoldelli, Linus Gerdemann, Benoît Vaugrenard, Rubén Pérez, Egoi Martínez, Laurent Lefèvre and Dmitri Fofonow. A little later joined by David de la Fuente and Iñigo Landaluze two other riders to guide group. Behind it a three-man chase group by José Iván Gutiérrez, Juan Antonio Flecha and Bram Tankink and a further four-piece with the drivers Fabian Wegmann, Martin Elmiger, Jérôme Pineau and Igor Antón. Formed Both groups included Followers on in the wake of the nine leaders, however, Antón had let fall from the second chase group, so that eventually were 15 riders in front of the main field. The projection of the group rose rapidly to 8:30 minutes before the field that had initially made no chase, under the direction of Predictor -Lotto took up the pursuit, and the residue slowly at first decreased and then consolidated. The projection was to the foot of the climb to the Col de la Colombière for almost five minutes before itself could easily settle in the leading group Pérez and Tankink, but the same were set back from the other drivers.

The increase in the escape group disintegrated then finally after Gutiérrez de la Fuente had attacked and fell back some drivers. Gerdemann joined a little later on the leading duo. As with Fofonow was another driver to Gerdemann forced the pace and sit with Fofonow to the top of the race. Meanwhile, the main group of the favorites in the Rabobank made the pace of work, getting smaller. 20 kilometers from the finish and a little more than five kilometers below the summit Gerdemann attacked again and was able to shake off his opponent, who was soon overtaken by Landaluze and de la Fuente. At the culmination of the German had 18 seconds ahead of his nearest rival, Spaniard Landaluze, which in turn was followed by his countryman de la Fuente. The Favorites group reached the summit with 3:20 minutes behind.

In the 14.5 km long descent to Le Grand -Bornand Linus Gerdemann extended his lead on Landaluze again and secured at the end in his first Tour de France and his first stage victory. On the following places Iñigo Landaluze followed 40 seconds behind, and David de la Fuente, a further 59 seconds behind. The group with all the favorites came minutes after 3:38 Gerdemann the finish.

By his victory and the big lead on the peloton Gerdemann took the lead in the overall standings with 1:24 minutes ahead of the new second-placed Iñigo Landaluze. In addition, he also secured the lead in the junior rankings. Fabian Cancellara, who wore the yellow jersey since the prologue, the goal with over 22 minutes behind reached on Gerdemann and fell so far back in the standings. In the mountains classification and points classification Sylvain Chavanel and Tom Boonen retained their respective jerseys. The lead in the team standings took over the T -Mobile team.

Tasks

Óscar Freire 056 - before the start of the stage, lasting seat problems
206 Rubén Lobato - before the start of the stage
214 Enrico Degano - during the stage, abrasions and bruises on the chest and back area after a fall on the 6th stage

Intermediate sprints

First intermediate sprint in Pont- d'Ain ( 16.5 km ) ( 249 m above sea level. NN )

Second intermediate sprint in Anglefort ( 86 km ) ( 285 m above sea level. NN )

Climbs

Côte de Corlier, Category 3 ( 35.5 km ) (. 753 m above sea level, 6.4 km à 5,3 %)

Côte de Cruseilles, Category 3 ( km 122.5 ) (. 758 m above sea level, 7.1 km à 4,4 %)

Côte Peguin, Category 4 ( km 134 ) (. 874 m above sea level, 4.3 km à 4,1 %)

Col de la Colombière, Category 1 ( 183 km ) (1618 m above sea level, . 16.0 km à 6,8 %)

* The points of the mountain classification are doubled when the last pass of the stage of the category HC, 1 or 2 corresponds.

Driver's field

Tour de France 2007

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