Amstel Gold: Schumacher Gets a Well-Deserved Win

By Jessica | Permalink | No Comments | April 22nd, 2007 | Trackback

If anyone needed proof that cycling is, indeed, a team sport, they need look no further than several of this Spring’s races - including today’s Amstel Gold. In what turned out to be the final and decisive break, Team Gerolsteiner had (at one point) three guys up the road - Stefan Schumacher, Davide Rebellin and Fabian Wegmann. Going into the final couple of kilometers, the two remaining Gerolsteiner riders (Wegmann having been dropped) might not have looked like they were the strongest guys in the group, but when Schumacher jumped no one followed. Rebellin was given an excuse to sit up and let others attempt to pull him back, meaning he had enough gas to come around in the final sprint and take second for a one-two Gerolsteiner punch. Very nicely played.

Last year’s winner, CSC’s Frank Schleck, went down hard midway through the race and for a moment it looked like he wasn’t going to be getting up, much less getting back on the bike. But he did get up, and he did get back on the bike - and he wormed his way through the team cars (with a little help from his own team’s car) to finish in what looked like the top ten overall.

The top ten on the day were:
1 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner
2 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner
3 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas
4 Matthias Kessler (Ger) Astana
5 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank
6 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
7 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic
8 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank
9 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC
10 Riccardo Riccò (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir

Read more about the stage when CyclingNews has their race report up here.

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