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But the strength of his win on Sunday likely put him into yellow for the next week, until next Saturday’s individual time trial. Rasmussen is notoriously weak against the clock. Two years ago he lost a podium position when a disastrous time trial on the Tour’s penultimate stage saw him fall from third to seventh overall. Still, the Dane says he has designs replica Omega 2505.75 watch on the podium in Paris and hasn’t ruled out aiming for the top step.On Monday’s first rest day, here’s where the favorites for the overall stand.1 Michael Rasmussen (Denmark) Rabobank4 Alejandro Valverde (Spain) Caisse dEpargne — 2:51 back6 Cadel Evans (Australia) Predictor

Trail runner Matt Carpenter set a new course record en route to his fourth consecutive victory at the Barr Trail Mountain Race on Sunday in Manitou Springs, Colorado. Matt, whos also from Manitou Springs, is one of the strongest mountain runners in the U.S., so its no surprise that hed own his home course. But the 42 year old trail runner was replica Omega 3570.50 watch pushed to running his best time ever by the young, extremely talented Ryan Hafer, 21, who finished in second place, one minute and 14 seconds behind Carpenter.Hafer went out fast to capture some of the prize money at various points along the course.

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Aside from Valverde, who is now fourth in the general classification (GC), Cadel Evans was the only other strong overall contender who showed his cards on Saturday. The Australian crossed the line in sixth place, 3:13 down on Rasmussen, and now sits sixth in the GC, 2:53 behind the yellow jersey.Pre-race favorites Carlos Sastre, Levi replica Omega 951292.10 watch Leipheimer (who had to change bikes after a mechanical failure), Andreas Kl?den, and Alexandre Vinokourov rolled through between 3:30 and 4:30 down. While a case can be made for saving some energy for the tough time trials and Pyrenean climbing stages to come in week three, their time losses on Sunday weren’t encouraging.One pre-race favorite who did take the initiative on Sunday was T-Mobile leader Michael Rogers. The Australian went with Rasmussen’s breakaway and was soon the virtual race leader.

He looked set to take the yellow jersey and solid control of the overall. But he crashed hard on a descent and was forced to abandon with a dislocated shoulder. Also crashing hard on Sunday was Australian Stuart O’Grady. The winner of this year’s Paris-Roubaix reportedly ran into a pole and was taken to a hospital with eight broken ribs, a replica Omega 4131.81 watch dislocated shoulder, and a punctured lung.Rasmussen’s win in the mountainous stage was hardly a surprise. The two-time defending champion in the polka-dot-jersey climbers’ competition was favored to be the top climber again this year.

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