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Article: Customs officials stop the Schlecks' father at gunpoint
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2008
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Mark Cavendish may have quit the Tour with four stage wins under
his belt, but even without him the Manxman's Columbia team continue
to rack up the victories. Columbia's fifth came yesterday when the
German Marcus Burghardt easily outgunned Spaniard Carlos Barredo in
a two-way sprint at St Etienne.
Both one-day Classic specialists, with the mountains now crossed
and Paris approaching, the stage represented a rare opportunity for
two non-favourites to go clear.
Striking gold in such unpromising terrain made Burghardt's
gleeful arm-waving as he outsprinted Barredo all the more
understandable - and it contrasted with Barredo's equally dramatic
thump on the handlebars - to express his ...