The 2011 Tour De France continued on Sunday with a victory by Boulder's Team Garmin-Cervelo in the stage 2 team time trial. As a result, this gave Thor Hushovd of Garmin-Cervelo the overall lead along with his teammate David Millar at 5 hours, 6'25". Cadel Evans of BMC Racing Team is behind by one second.
As for the results of the stage itself, Garmin-Cervelo finished the race in 24 minutes, 48 seconds. That was four seconds better than BMC Racing, who finished second with two others. Danny Pate's HTC-Highroad came in five seconds after Garmin-Cervelo after the leader. Omega Pharma-Lotto finished 39 seconds back. Philippe Gilbert, yellow jersey holder entering the day, is now 33 seconds behind the leader. He still holds the green jersey for most points.
Here are the top finishers as well as Colorado's two cyclists:
Standing | Rider | Team | Time | Gaps |
1 | Thor Hushovd | Team Garmin-Cervelo | 5h 06' 25" | |
2 | David Millar | Team Garmin-Cervelo | 5h 06' 25" | + 00' 00" |
3 | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team | 5h 06' 26" | + 00' 01" |
4 | Geraint Thomas | Sky Procycling | 5h 06' 29" | + 00' 04" |
5 | Linus Gerdemann | Team Leopard-Trek | 5h 06' 29" | + 00' 04" |
6 | Frank Schleck | Team Leopard-Trek | 5h 06' 29" | + 00' 04" |
7 | Fabian Cancellara | Team Leopard-Trek | 5h 06' 29" | + 00' 04" |
8 | Edvald Boasson Hagen | Sky Procycling | 5h 06' 29" | + 00' 04" |
9 | Manuel Quinziato | BMC Racing Team | 5h 06' 29" | + 00' 04" |
10 | Andy Schleck | Team Leopard-Trek | 5h 06' 29" | + 00' 04" |
11 | Jakob Fuglsang | Team Leopard-Trek | 5h 06' 29" | + 00' 04" |
12 | Bradley Wiggins | Sky Procycling | 5h 06' 29" | + 00' 04" |
13 | George Hincapie | BMC Racing Team | 5h 06' 29" | + 00' 04" |
14 | Tony Martin | HTC-Highroad | 5h 06' 30" | + 00' 05" |
15 | peter Velits | HTC-Highroad | 5h 06' 30" | + 00' 05" |
16 | tejay Van Garderen | HTC-Highroad | 5h 06' 30" | + 00' 05" |
17 | Lars Bak | HTC-Highroad | 5h 06' 30" | + 00' 05" |
18 | Mark Cavendish | HTC-Highroad | 5h 06' 30" | + 00' 05" |
19 | Matthew Harley Goss | HTC-Highroad | 5h 06' 30" | + 00' 05" |
77 | DANIELSON Tom | Team Garmin-Cervelo | 5h 08' 14" | + 01' 49" |
115 | PATE Danny | HTC-Highroad | 5h 09' 19" | + 02' 54" |
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