Articles tagged with: Gert Steegmans
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The riders faced a hilly 205.6kms stage from Bilzen to Heers featuring 7 different climbs in the last half of the course.
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152 riders took to the start of today’s 214.4km stage from St-Lievens-Houtem in Belgium to Roermond in the Netherlands. Though today’s was the longest stage of the Tour, Jaroslaw Marycz (Saxo Bank) decided it was a good day to try to attack his way to victory, launching his first of numerous moves 7kms in. 13kms later, in the peloton, Christian Knees (Milram) crashed into a stop sign and had to abandon the race to go to a local hospital for stitches.
Marycz launched his second attack 35kms in. Working with Adriano …
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Today’s stage was a 204km route from Roermond to Sittard. Markus Eichler (Milram), Lieuwe Westra (Vacansoleil) and Robert Hunter (Garmin-Transitions) all did not start the stage while Jurgen Van De Walle (QuickStep) and Juan Mauricio Soler (Caisse d’Epargne) abandoned during the stage.
As usual, numerous breaks tried to form in hopes of staying away. The most dominate group was formed with 99kms to go, consisting of: Kenny Dehaes (Omega Pharma-Lotto), Maxim Gourov (Astana), Mauro Da Dalto (Lampre-Farnese Vini), Ruben Perez Moreno (Euskaltel-Eusakadi), Jack Bobridge (Garmin-Transitions), Kevin Hulsmans (QuickStep), Dominique Nerz (Milram), …
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Jimmy Casper (Saur – Sojasun) took the bunch sprint in Mechelen at the end of the 192 km stage from Knokke-Heist, besting Danilo Napolitano (Team Katusha) and Gert Steegmans (Team Radioshack).




