Tour de France 2009 - 3 Stage: Cavendish to the Second

Stage 3 - Monday, 06/07/2009
Marseille - La Grande-Motte (196.5 km, card , profile )
Retracted by countries: 2

Mountains and mountain sections: -

Places and Travel Tips: Even so close to the Ventoux, yet it will take about two weeks before the tour takes the final increase in attack. And what else the area offers? Well, in Massilia were already settled by the Greeks in their foray into the western Mediterranean basin and in Avignon, the Popes have liked it, so no bad both destinations.

Vieux Port - Marseille

And with the destination of La Grande-Motte, it creates the Tour de France to roll over in pyramids, without launching into Egypt or Mexico.

Pyramids in La Grande-Motte

Web: letour.com , Wikipedia , cycling news

Addendum to the Stage: What a finale and then the gesture of Astana took part at the roundabout at Columbia-HTC team. From then on it was clear that this group would get to the finish. Why has something actually previously worked at Telecom before? Well, Armstrong was in the same group ...

Colulmbia HTC pushes this tour that is already made their mark on and that Linus Gerdemann managed to sell well with the group, are currently three German riders in the top ten! The big question before tomorrow's team time trial is certain that if Fabian Cancellara could take out enough of a lead.

Result:

First Mark Cavendish (Columbia-HTC)
Second Thor Hushovd (Cervélo)
Third Cyril Lemoine (Skil-Shimano)
4th Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis)
5th Jérôme Pineau (Quick Step)

Yellow jersey Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank)
Green jersey: Mark Cavendish (Columbia-HTC)
Mountain jersey: Jussi Veikkanen (Francaise des Jeux)
White shirt: Tony Martin (Columbia-HTC)

(The complete results of the Stage 3 )