Schleck hangs onto fifth

Frank Schleck (CSC)

Frank Schleck (CSC) (Image credit: Hedwig Kröner)

For the first time in two years, CSC di🤡dn't finish with the overall victory, preferring to have a quieter sta🌳rt to the season than usual. After Bobby Julich won the , CSC's best placed rider on GC was Luxembourgian Fränk Schleck, who finished fifth. On the final stage, Schleck took a bonus second in an intermediate sprint, which moved him into a virtual fourth, before Antonio Colom (Caisse d'Epargne) escaped on the last descent to leapfrog over Schleck and Sanchez into third overall.