Alberto Contador conquest the Mountain Laurent Jalabert

Mountain Laurent Jalabert, well known as the Croix Neuve in honor of the first rider to reach the top victorious, after the legendary French climber, became, for a moment, in Spanish territory. In the territory of our own. In territory of those cyclists who have made this generation to the best of all time. Alberto Contador, who devours meters as if in the month of July, Alejandro Valverde, Samuel Sanchez and Joaquim Rodriguez, who rode the wake of the leader of Astana during the entire climb, made the fourth stage of Paris-Nice real national festival. A festival to which the rest simply admired from a distance.

The distance they put in between a Madrid winning four, a vice-world Murcia winning classic and the Tour, an Asturian Catalan Olympic champion and a bronze at the last World Cup, when the first of them decided Demarrer absence 1.6 km to go. The end of the first important step. A scented mountain stage. A smell that, as always, activates the Spanish, who attended the call and resulted in an outstanding appointment.

Alberto Contador brought up, once again, the gun hidden in the pockets of his jersey and shooting her when she has something to celebrate. Today was the stage victory. Who knows if soon the final triumph. But for starters, was the best of 173.5 km a day of presenting five ports, one first, two second and third category of both. A day in which the Navarrese Mikel Snow, Euskaltel-Euskadi, was one of the members of the flight of the day, made by Jérôme Pineau, Quick Step, Amaël Moinard of Cofidis, Marco Marcato, the Vacansoleil, Jean-Marc Marino, the Saur-Sojasun, Albert Timmer, the Skil-Shimano, Julien Loubet, of AG2R, and the brave appointed as the Orange squad.

A leak that ended before passing through the banner of the last 10 km. Pierre Rolland, 86, professionally for three seasons, the Bbox Bouygues Telecom, was the next guerrilla who tried. Once caught, the relay took it's little brother Romain Feillu, Brice, in the ranks of Vacansoleil, who did not get the same result as in Ordino-Arcalis, Andorra, in the last Tour de France when he savored the victory. Behind him, the battle broke out among the best. One of a local group, the Francaise des Jeux, Christophe Le Mevel, who has in his resume with a win at the Giro d'Italia, started strongly and took his wheel and a counter Xavi Tondo, the Cervélo, ex of Andalusia, which then can not stand, like Le Mevel, the pace imposed by the new race leader.