August 23, 2005

SAUNIER DUVAL-PRODIR : the fighters team !

During the 2005 Tour of Valenciana, there were no doubts: Alessandro Petacchi was the king! He won the fifth and final stage in a group sprint and took out the overall classification in the process. The only nightmare for the Fassa Bortolo leader was SAUNIER DUVAL-PRODIR, the determined team which fought until the end. Tino Zaballa took the biggest risks all week; he had just one goal: victory! During the last stage, Zaballa tried once again to take the lead by attacking from the beginning, but in the end the lead group created by Zaballa's break collapsed. Another SAUNIER DUVAL-PRODIR rider challenged Petacchi in the final sprint: Ventoso finished second in the stage, so close to the king that Petacchi almost couldn’t raise his arms in victory!

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