Critérium International (Fra), 27-28/03/2010

The Team Radioshack line up:

Riders: Lance Armstrong, Matthew Busche, Ben Hermans, Chris Horner, Tiago Machado, Sérgio Paulinho, Yaroslav Popovych & Ivan Rovny
Directors: Johan Bruyneel & Alain Gallopin

The Critérium International is a two day bicycle stage race held in France  every spring. It was formerly known as the Critérium National de la Route, first run in 1932.
For many years it was considered a sort of French national championship and was only opened to non-French cyclists in 1979.

Race website: http://www.letour.fr/

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Top Ten Results, stage 3
1 David Millar (GBr) Garmin-Transitions     0:09:50
2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Astana 0:00:02
3 Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Columbia-HTC 0:00:03
4 Liéuwe Westra (Ned) Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team          0:00:09
5 Benat Intxausti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0:00:11
6 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Team Columbia-HTC
7 Laurent Mangel (Fra) Saur-Sojasun
8 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team       0:00:12
9 Samuel Sanchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi   0:00:13
10 Tiago Machado (Por) Team RadioShack 0:00:14

Team RadioShack Results, stage 3
11 Christopher Horner (USA) 0:00:15
15 Lance Armstrong (USA) 0:00:19
20 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) 0:00:24
21 Ben Hermans (Bel)
45 Ivan Rovny (Rus) 0:00:43
77 Matthew Busche (USA) 0:00:59
110 Sergio Paulinho (Por)     0:01:38

Final General Classification
1.  FEDRIGO Pierrick BBOX BOUYGUES TELECOM        7h 11′ 59″
2.  ROGERS Michael TEAM HTC – COLUMBIA      00′ 14″
3.  MACHADO Tiago TEAM RADIOSHACK         00′ 15″
4.  SANCHEZ Samuel   EUSKALTEL – EUSKADI     00′ 19″
5.  MILLAR David       GARMIN – TRANSITIONS   00′ 19″
6.  EVANS Cadel         BMC RACING TEAM   00′ 22″
7.  HORNER Christopher      TEAM RADIOSHACK   00′ 25″
8.  MONFORT Maxime         TEAM HTC – COLUMBIA      00′ 26″
9.  HERMANS Ben    TEAM RADIOSHACK         00′ 35″
10. INTXAUSTI Benat   EUSKALTEL – EUSKADI     00′ 39″

Team RadioShack on General Classification
47. ARMSTRONG Lance    05′ 05″
51. POPOVYCH Yaroslav   05′ 30″
55.  PAULINHO Sergio   06′ 44″
81. BUSCHE Matthew   18′ 54″
108. ROVNY Ivan    23′ 16″

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Stage 2 Results
1.      DOWNING Russel      TEAM SKY
2.     ALBASINI Michael     TEAM HTC – COLUMBIA
3.     FEDRIGO Pierrick     BBOX BOUYGUES TELECOM
4.     DUQUE Leonardo     COFIDIS LE CREDIT EN LIGNE
5.     VACHON Florian     BRETAGNE – SCHULLER
6.     MOLMY Arnaud     ROUBAIX LILLE METROPOLE
7.     GALLAND Jeremy     SAUR-SOJASUN
8.     ENGOULVENT Jimmy     SAUR-SOJASUN
9.     KADRI Blel     AG2R-LA MONDIALE
10.     CARRARA Matteo     VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM

Team Radioshack on Stage 2
24.     ARMSTRONG Lance     TEAM RADIOSHACK
25.     MACHADO Tiago     TEAM RADIOSHACK
33.     HORNER Christopher     TEAM RADIOSHACK
40.     HERMANS Ben     TEAM RADIOSHACK
62.     BUSCHE Matthew     TEAM RADIOSHACK
80.     PAULINHO Sergio     TEAM RADIOSHACK
94.     ROVNY Ivan     TEAM RADIOSHACK
96.     POPOVYCH Yaroslav     TEAM RADIOSHACK

GC after stage 2
1.     FEDRIGO Pierrick     BBOX BOUYGUES TELECOM
2.     MACHADO Tiago     TEAM RADIOSHACK
3.     SANCHEZ Samuel     EUSKALTEL – EUSKADI
4.     EVANS Cadel     BMC RACING TEAM
5.     CARRARA Matteo     VACANSOLEIL PRO CYCLING TEAM
6.     HORNER Christopher     TEAM RADIOSHACK
7.     LOPEZ GARCIA David     CAISSE D’EPARGNE
8.     HERMANS Ben     TEAM RADIOSHACK
9.     ROGERS Michael     TEAM HTC – COLUMBIA
10.     MONFORT Maxime     TEAM HTC – COLUMBIA

Team Radioshack in the GC after stage two
50.     ARMSTRONG Lance     TEAM RADIOSHACK
53.     PAULINHO Sergio     TEAM RADIOSHACK
54.     POPOVYCH Yaroslav     TEAM RADIOSHACK
82.     BUSCHE Matthew     TEAM RADIOSHACK
112.     ROVNY Ivan     TEAM RADIOSHACK

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Stage 1 Top ten
1  Pierrick Fedrigo (Bouygues)          5:19:46
2  Tiago Machado (RadioShack)            + 0:11
3  Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi)      0:15
4  Cadel Evans (BMC)
5  David Moncoutie (Cofidis)
6  Matteo Carrara (VaVacansoleil)
7  Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia)
8  Christopher Horner (RadioShack)
9  Ben Hermans (RadioShack)
10 David Lopez Garcia (Caisse d’Epargne)

Lance Armstrong via Twitter:
Tough first stage here @ Criterium intl. @teamradioshack was awesome. Tiago 2nd, as well as Ben Hermans and @hornerakg in the top 10.