Jodie is the current Victorian Vets Criterium and Road champion in her age group. She has been racing for several years now and likes any event that involves sprinting and not too many hills. She initially used cycling as an important part of her rehabilitation from a mountaineering accident in New Zealand. She then got into racing as a replacement for martial arts in which she represented Australia and won Gold, Silver & Bronze medals in the Martial Arts World Games in 2000. 95th Tour de France
Location: France
UCI Classification: Grand Tour
Dates: 5-27 July, 2008
Starting field: 180 riders, 20 teams
Stage 19 - Friday, July 25: Roanne - Montluçon, 165.5km
The sprint teams didn't do their calculations very well this time. Sylvain Chavanel from Cofidis won the stage from a break-away. The sprint teams tried to pull it back but left their run too late and the peloton finished over a minute later. The peloton finished together, so the GC standings remain the same. It is all down to the individual time trial tomorrow. A full report is here.
If everything was crossed before, can you now double-cross everything for Cadel.
Main results:
1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 3.37.09 (45.73 km/h)
2 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux
3 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Columbia 1.13
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22 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto
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32 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank
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38 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC - Saxo Bank
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46 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank
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?? Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner
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Main GC results after stage 19:
1 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 82.54.36
2 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1.24
3 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 1.33
4 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 1.34
5 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 2.39
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Next Stage
Stage 20: Cérilly - Saint Amand Montrond (ITT), 53km. This is it - the decider. Assuming Carlos Sastre is the best of the top riders, Cadel needs to ride an average of 1.77 secs/km faster than Sastre to grab the yellow jersey. Profile.
Reproduced with permission from Geoff Schmidt who is unashamedly biased towards following Cadel Evans.