Andre Greipel of HTC-Columbia won in Kraków, exactly in the same way as a year ago. That stage finished 67. Tour de Pologne.
Daniel Martin of Garmin-Transistors won the general classification. It's the biggest achievement in career of 24-year-old.
Jacek Morajko, the Poland's Champion, was in three-men break, but the last of the riders was catched up on the rounds in Kraków, and again it was finish of the whole peleton.
Two Poles finished the race in the best ten. Sylwester Szmyd of Liquigas was 6th, Marek Rutkiewicz of Polska BGŻ on 7th place.
Johnny Hoogerland of Vacansoleil won both the mountain classification.
and intermediate sprints classification. Allan Davies of Astana won the points classification. Garmin-Transitions was named the best team.
Sadly, it's another Tour de Pologne without any victory of Polish cyclist.
If you look on the budget of the teams which take part in the race and compare it with our modest one, we can say that we did our work well. I'm very, very happy how of the lads' performance", said Piotr Wadecki, the coach of the Team Polska BGŻ.
Poland has no professional ProTour team. The Polish national team always gets a wild card for Tour de Pologne.
The national team consisted of two country groups CCC Polsat Polkowice and Mróz Active Jet. They cooperated effectively with each other. They made one team.
The World Championships in Melbourne are coming. However, any of the Poles, who were called-up to the national team, is not going to go there, as the coach decided that only those who are a part of foreign group can prepare to the Championships sucessfully. The season in Poland finishes with Tour de Pologne, save for a few short races. Apparently it's not enough practise.
It was a fine race, and I'm happy I could watch all of it. Looking forward to 68. Tour de Pologne!
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