Tour de France 2005

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The 92e Tour de France is held of the July 2nd with the July 24th 2005 out of 21 stages for 3.607 km.

General information

  • the course of the Tour de France 2005 was announced the October 28th 2004 in the Center of the Congresses of Paris.

  • It is the Tour last of Lance Armstrong, which took its retirement at the conclusion of this edition which it left favorite. It gained its 7th Tour de France and beat the speed records of the turn to 41,654 km/h of average compared with 40,940 km/h in 2003. A few weeks later, the French sporting daily newspaper, the Team , shows it doping during the Turn 1999. The investigation diligentée by the UCI will result in clearing American…

  • No prolog this year. The initial stage measuring more than 8 km, it is classified like “stage” with whole share.

Course of the race

As of the first stage, Armstrong indicates that it arrives in great condition: on a against-the-watch of hardly 16 km, it pushes back its principal rivals Ullrich, Vinokourov, Basso and Kloden at more than one minute.

The first week of race is devoted to the sprinters and the duel for the shirt green between the Belgian Tom Boonen, victorious of 2nd and 3rd stages, and Australian the Robbie McEwen, which gains 5th and 7th stages, occupies the spirits. The against-the-watch by teams does not offer real modification to general classification; only the fall of the yellow jersey David Zabriskie of CSC is to be noted.

The first stages of mountain occur quickly. In the collar of Schlucht, on arrival of the 8th stage with Gerardmer, the yellow jersey Lance Armstrong is found in a position incorfortable. Whereas all its team-members were released, it is attacked successively by its adversaries of the T-Mobile Ullrich, Vinokourov and Klöden. It is finally Andreas Klöden, its dolphin in 2004, that Armstrong must let leave. The following day, in the great stage of the Vosges, while the Dane Michael Rasmussen left to gain the victory and to ensure the shirt pea, the team Discovery Channel appears serene and well in place. Was it about a simple accident? The answer is not long in coming.

As of the 10th stage, which is completed at the top of Courchevel, everyone agrees to say that the final victory will not escape Armstrong. In the final rise, its fellow-members took turns to impose an impressive rate/rhythm which made crack all its adversaries one by one. Only the young Spanish wonder Alejandro Valverde managed to cling to the American champion to come to pass it on the line and to gain the victory of stage. The following day, the victory of the Kazakh Alexandre Vinokourov with Briançon is nothing any more but one start of pride.

The Pyrenees confirm the impression and never Armstrong is not put in difficulty. In 14th and 15th stages, it follows without sorrow the attacks of its adversaries Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich. Rasmussen, always astonishing second of the general after the Alps, is made double by Basso and sees stinging the Ullrich threat.

The final podium is played in last the against-the-watch with Saint-Etienne. If Lance Armstrong gains it without much problem, definitively ensuring its seventh consecutive success in the Grande Boucle, the shirt with pea Michael Rasmussen knows one day difficult, punctuated of falls and failures, which relegates it third to the seventh place of the general. The Ullrich German, second of the stage, go up on the troisème walk of the podium.

The following day, at the time of the last stage on the Champs Elysées, the champion of the Kazakhstan Alexandre Vinokourov trap the sprinters and gains the victory, ensuring by there a beautiful fifth place the final classification.

Stages

Additional classifications

Committed teams

List of the runners participating in the Turn 2005

Leaders of the classifications to each stage

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Abandonments, exclusions

Profits of the teams

Classification of the teams according to the entire amount of the premiums gained by their runners (in Euro S):
  1. Discovery Channel: 545.640 of which prices of 400.000 euros to the winner
  2. T-Mobile: 258.730
  3. CSC : 237.520
  4. Crédit Agricole: 107.420
  5. Illes Balears : 105.180
  6. Phonak : 99.360
  7. Rabobank : 96.120
  8. Gerolsteiner : 68.050
  9. Davitamon : 65.210
  10. French of the Plays: 58.040
  11. Cofidis : 57.070
  12. Liberty Seguros : 42.390
  13. Quick-Step : 33.660
  14. Fassa Bortolo : 32.860
  15. Bouygues : 27.710
  16. Liquigas : 25.120
  17. Lampre : 20.620
  18. Dominated Vacanze: 18020
  19. Ag 2r: 17.000
  20. Salt maker Duval: 12.070
  21. Euskaltel : 9.310

External bonds

  • Tour de France 2005, official site

  • memory of cycling/Turn 2005
  • the dictionary of the Turn/the Tour de France 2005
  • the course of the turn 2005

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