Cardoso takes third stage Down Under
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January 22, 2010, Friday
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PORTUGUESE national champion Manuel Cardoso won the arduous third stage of the Tour Down Under yesterday while Lance Armstrong ended a day of sapping heat 30th on the stage and 26th overall.
Temperatures rose to 40 degrees Celsius on the 132.5-kilometer stage between Unley in suburban Adelaide and Stirling in hills east of the city.
Armstrong rode near the head of the peleton throughout the undulating stage and was credited with a time one second behind Cardoso's winning mark of 3 hours, 14 minutes, 38 seconds.
"It was hot, definitely hot," Armstrong said. "It takes a toll on everybody. You can see guys suffering and when you see the salt on everybody's jersey, you know it's a tough day."
Spain's Alejandro Valverde took second place in yesterday's hot stage while world road racing champion and two-time Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans was third. Evans moved up to seventh place on general classification, defying his own assertion the first event of the ProTour season didn't suit his "capacities."
Germany's Andre Greipel also finished among the leading bunch, one second down on Cardoso, to hold onto the tour leader's ocher jersey for United States-based Team Columbia. His overall time of 9 hours, 53 minutes, 38 seconds put him 14 seconds ahead of New Zealander Greg Henderson - 31st in yesterday's stage - and Belgian Gert Steegmans of Armstrong's Team Radioshack.
Valverde moved into fourth place on general classification, also 14 seconds behind Greipel.
Temperatures rose to 40 degrees Celsius on the 132.5-kilometer stage between Unley in suburban Adelaide and Stirling in hills east of the city.
Armstrong rode near the head of the peleton throughout the undulating stage and was credited with a time one second behind Cardoso's winning mark of 3 hours, 14 minutes, 38 seconds.
"It was hot, definitely hot," Armstrong said. "It takes a toll on everybody. You can see guys suffering and when you see the salt on everybody's jersey, you know it's a tough day."
Spain's Alejandro Valverde took second place in yesterday's hot stage while world road racing champion and two-time Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans was third. Evans moved up to seventh place on general classification, defying his own assertion the first event of the ProTour season didn't suit his "capacities."
Germany's Andre Greipel also finished among the leading bunch, one second down on Cardoso, to hold onto the tour leader's ocher jersey for United States-based Team Columbia. His overall time of 9 hours, 53 minutes, 38 seconds put him 14 seconds ahead of New Zealander Greg Henderson - 31st in yesterday's stage - and Belgian Gert Steegmans of Armstrong's Team Radioshack.
Valverde moved into fourth place on general classification, also 14 seconds behind Greipel.
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