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The mainly wide, flat roads heading to Rouen were a perfect match for the speedy Brit, but in the end he never got the chance to vie for his 22nd Tour de France stage win after a massive pileup with a little less than three kilometres to go. The crash shattered the field leaving just a handful of sprinters to duke it out to the finish. Greg Henderson alaska bed and breakfasts performed a massive leadout for his Lotto-Belisol teammate Andre Greipel, who came through with the win. Though he was perfectly placed on Greipel s wheel, Alessandro Petacchi simply didn t have the gas to come around him.
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