Vuelta a Espana - Bozic takes stage, Greipel leads

Eurosport - Sat, 05 Sep 17:30:00 2009

Slovenia's Borut Bozic of Vacansoleil won the sixth stage of the Vuelta a Espana as Germany's Andre Greipel of Team Columbia held on to the overall lead.

CYCLING 2009 Vuelta a Espana Borut Bozic celebrates winning stage six - 0

Bozic captured the 176.8km (109-mile) stage that started and ended in the eastern town of Xativa and included two testing mountain climbs in 4 hours, 40 minutes, 54 seconds.

US rider Tyler Farrar of Garmin placed second, ahead of Italy's Daniele Bennati of Liquigas.

Greipel, who won the previous two stages of the Vuelta, finished the stage in 10th place.

The seventh stage on Saturday will be a 30km individual time trial, the second of the race, that starts and finishes on Valencia's flat Formula One motor racing street circuit.

Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara won the first, a 4.8km course that began and ended in the Dutch town of Assen during the first stage of the race.

Last year's top three finishers, champion Alberto Contador of Spain, US rider Levi Leipheimer and Carlos Sastre also of Spain, have stayed away from the three-week event which ends in Madrid on September 20.

The 64th edition of the race, the third Grand Tour of the year after the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, began outside of Spain this year for only the second time in its history.

Stage 7 LIVE at 15:00 on Saturday on British Eurosport (Sky 410 / Virgin Media 521); Also available on your PC via the Eurosport Player - click on the link under the picture to subscribe

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  1. The spanish coverage is great, with Perico Delgado on­ TDP. best comentators ever

    From Wayne, on Sat 5 Sep 10:22AM

  2. Unfortunately, the local cuisine was ALL I ever learned­ about from Duffield, (thank you Kev). Even when a race­ - winning break was taking off, he would be rambling on­ about Coppi or what function the handlebars served. ­ Kelly is fine...quiet, unobtrusive and informative. ­ What I WOULD like is more silence in the commentary and­ less continual jabbering. Liggett and Sherwin are OK­ but if you want to hear real cycle race commentary, try­ some Italian coverage.

    From johnaerial, on Fri 4 Sep 11:09PM

  3. svaka cast Slovenci uvek ste bili najbolji biciklisti­ sa ovih prostora a to ste sad i dokazali
    veliki­ pozdrav iz Srbije, Kraljeva grada cuvenih Cubrica
    Sve­ najbolje na Svetskom prvenstvu
    sam napred

    From isnogood414, on Fri 4 Sep 10:37PM

  4. I must agree with fotodelicto - Kelly knows a LOT about­ cycling but just can't put it across in an­ interesting way.

    Bring back Duffield - I learnt a lot­ about the local cuisine :-)

    From Kev, on Fri 4 Sep 9:41PM

  5. Wow, those Eurosport commentators really are the worst­­ aren't they? Absolutely zero passion and­­ excitement. I was listening on the radio and it was­ the­ last few kms and I didn't even know when the­ race­ was won, the commentary is so flat, monotone and­­ uninteresting.

    I can't believe Kelly gets to hold­­ down a professional role commentating as he's so­­ dull, monotone and drawls through everything he­­ says.

    People might complain about Phil and Paul but­­ they are THE voices of cycling. Liggett alone raises­­ pro cycling to a whole other level, just like Coleman­­ and Pickering used to in athletics.

    From fotodelicto, on Fri 4 Sep 7:34PM

  6. I remember being told through the summer on these­ forums that Farrar was better than Cavendish. I didnt­ believe it then and I definitely don't believe it­ now!

    From Liz S, on Fri 4 Sep 7:13PM

  7. The number of times Tyler Farrar has placed second this­ season beggars belief - even Borat's getting to the­ line ahead of him?!

    From pedro118118, on Fri 4 Sep 7:04PM

  8. Great day for Slovenia

    From Bobcha, on Fri 4 Sep 6:56PM
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