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Tour de France - Stage 17 results

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Today's stage started with no one wearing the yellow jersey. Michael Rasmussen was dismissed from the Rabobank team when it was discovered that he lied about his whereabouts when he was supposed to be available for an out of competition test in June. To read more about it, see my entry from earlier today.

Today's results:
  1. Daniele Bennati
  2. Marcus Fothen
  3. Martin Elmiger
  4. Jens Voigt
  5. David Millar

General Classification:

  1. Alberto Contador
  2. Cadel Evans
  3. Levi Leiphiemer
  4. Carlos Sastre
  5. Haimar Zubeldia

American Chris Horner hangs tough in 14th place, with Christian Vandevelde and George Hincapie at 24th and 26th place respectively.

Points: Boonen

Mountains: Soler

Young Rider: Contador

Team: Discovery Channel

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