Tour de L'Avenir (A. Delaplace - 1 Stage Win)

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While Saur isn't participating as a team, Anthony Delaplace is competing for the French A team. So...we'll follow his exploits here. After all, he is still riding a Gitane!

[sandranian]

Davis Phinney and Connie Carpenter's offspring tore up the course, winning in convincing style:

Prologue Results:
1 Taylor Phinney (USA) United States of America 0:08:55
10 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:00:28

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Stage 1 Results:
1 John Degenkolb (Ger) Germany 3:37:05
23 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A

General Classification:
1 Taylor Phinney (USA) United States of America 3:46:00
10 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:00:28

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Stage 2 Results: 26th win for Gitane this year!
1 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 3:53:21

General Classification:
1 Alex Dowsett (GBr) Great Britain 7:39:35
3 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:00:14

[Wisey]

Nice!

[sandranian]

Huge mountain stage...really shook things up. Question is, why can people from the "low countries" climb? Wink Delaplace sits second in the mountains classification, with 19 points (leader at 21 pts).

Stage 3 Results:
1 Yannick Eijssen (Bel) Belgium 4:11:48
18 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:02:42

General Classification:
1 Yannick Eijssen (Bel) Belgium 11:52:07
16 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:02:12

[sandranian]

A Frenchman won today...but not on a Gitane, which is a pity. Delaplace is still hanging tough in the top 20.

Stage 4 Results:
1 Romain Hardy (Fra) France A 4:33:53
15 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:02:06

General Classification:
1 Yannick Eijssen (Bel) Belgium 16:28:06
17 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:02:12

[Wisey]

A Frenchman won a race???!!! He must be the next Hinault!!

Seriously, this is a cool race and it's nice to see some young guys starting out. Here's to more French victories.

[sandranian]

Deutschland ?ber Alles.

Delaplace fell well out of contention for the overall today. But I don't think he was aiming for it anyways (or a contender).

Stage 5 Results:
1 John Degenkolb (Ger) Germany 4:01:13
82 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:25:08

General Classification:
1 Yannick Eijssen (Bel) Belgium 20:29:58
47 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:26:41

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Stage 6 Results:
1 Nairo Alexander Quintanarojas (Col) Colombia 5:44:31
24 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:05:49

General Classification:
1 Nairo Alexander Quintanarojas (Col) Colombia 26:15:46
33 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:31:13

[sandranian]

A Columbian won the stage and the overall. I wonder when the last time that happened was? Never??? Delaplace had an excellent race, always solid, and with one stage win. Very impressive!

Stage 7 Results:
1 Nairo Alexander Quintanarojas (Col) Colombia 0:33:36
19 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:03:08

Final General Classification:
1 Nairo Alexander Quintanarojas (Col) Colombia 26:49:21
33 Anthony Delaplace (Fra) France A 0:34:21