Dario Frigo, one of the possible winners of this Vuelta, celebrates
his 30th birthday today.
Yesterday
Frigo pulled off one of the coups of the day by gaining a minute
on Beltran in the overall classifications, leaving him only
2 seconds down on Beltran's time. Brltran was distanced yesterday
on the last Alto that traversed the streets of Cuenca.
Dario
Frigo almost won at Envalira, passed in the last seconds by
Valverde.
His
victories this year have included:
Tour
de la Communauté de Valencienne
La Semaine Catalane
Stage win Paris-Nice
Stage win in Gir
Championship at Zurich
Italian Time Trials
Tour de Romandie
Paris-Nice
Perez
iz another outsider, but suffered from a fall yesterday near
the end of the race. He lost 1'02".
Stage
classification
1 - Petacchi
2 - Zabel
3 - Rodriguez fred
4 - Bertolini
5 - Schweda
6 - Vicioso
7 - Mancebo
8 - Barry
9 - Rasmussen
10 - Sevilla
General classification
1 - NOZAL
2 - GLEZ de GALDEANO à 1'48"
3 - BELTRAN à 3'28"
4 - HERAS à 3'40"
5 - MANCEBO à 4'04"
6 - RASMUSSEN à 4'14"
7- FRIGO à 5'06"
8 - VALVERDE à 5'09"
Points
1 - ZABEL 112
2 - PETACCHI 101
3 - VALVERDE 81
4 - NOZAL 66
5 - RASMUSSEN 63