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Article: Cycling: Hagen dash to win again.(Sport)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2008
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Byline: BY SCOTT DOUGAL
TEAM COLUMBIA'S Edvald Boassen Hagen produced a stunning dash for the line for the second successive day to take the fifth stage of the Tour of Britain in Dalby Forest.
The Norwegian time-trial specialist went for the line 1,500m out to leave stage two winner Matt Goss and Danilo Di Luca trailing in his wake for his sixth win of the season.
Agritubel's Geoffroy Lequatre retained the yellow jersey but Great Britain's Steve Cummings is still second, just six seconds off the pace.
Ian Stannard is also in the hunt in fourth while Ben Swift kept hold of the King of the Mountains' jersey despite a point-less day ...