July 15/98 2:32 am - O'Grady takes over Yellow Jersey

Posted by Editor on 07/15/98
 

Blijlevens wins stage 4, but Aussie O‚Grady takes over Yellow Jersey

O‚Grady started todays fourth stage 3 seconds behind yesterdays leader Bo Hamburger, but made up the needed time by winning 2 sprints in this the longest stage in this years tour.

Stage 4 Plouay to Cholet: 252 km

1 BLIJLEVENS Jeroen in 5:48:32
2 MINALI Nicola
3 SVORADA Jan
4 MONCASSIN Frédéric
5 TCHMIL Andrei
6 ZABEL Erik
7 STEELS Tom
8 MICHAELSEN Lars
9 SCIANDRI Maximilian
10 BALDATO Fabio
11 VIERHOUTEN Aart all s.t.
12 FAGNINI Gian Matteo at 00:04
13 MARTINELLO Silvio 00:06
14 RIIS Bjarne 00:06
15 HEULOT Stéphane 00:06
16 MC EWEN Robbie 00:06
17 VOSKAMP Bart 00:06
18 GUESDON Frédéric 00:08
19 CASERO Angel 00:08
20 MAURI Melchor 00:08
GC after Stage 4 1 O:GRADY Stuart in 19h43:29
2 HAMBURGER Bo at 00:11
3 HINCAPIE George 00:11
4 HEPPNER Jens 00:14
5 JAN Xavier 00:32
6 HERVE Pascal 00:33
7 GARCIA-ACOSTA Vicent 00:34
8 CHANTEUR Pascal 00:39
9 CABELLO Francisco 00:58
10 ZABEL Erik 01:01
11 SVORADA Jan 01:05
12 MONCASSIN Frédéric 01:08
13 STEELS Tom 01:12
142 BLIJLEVENS Jeroen 01:14
15 TCHMIL Andrei 01:19
16 DURAND Jacky 01:21
17 OLANO Abraham 01:21
181 JALABERT Laurent 01:22
19 MC EWEN Robbie 01:22
20 JULICH Bobby 01:22