Tour of Catalonia (photos by Karlis)
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Stage one of Catalonia featured a three man escape that stayed away for most of the day - Gatis Smukulis leads the way...
Carlos Sastre and Cadel Evans had plenty of time to chat - the escape managed a 14-minute lead..!
All the sprinters' teams are chasing, but they've left it a bit late...
Gatis Smukulis wins stage one alone, and takes the race-lead...
Jose Benitez led a four man escape on stage two - but today the peloton was not giving so much away...
Alessandro Petacchi was the winner of stage two...
Stage three saw the race head for the Pyrenees, on a beautiful spring day...
Thomas Peterson is stretching the peloton out on a climb - he'll eventually get across to a six-man escape...
The escape has been caught by the foot of the final climb to Pal - Levi Leipheimer ignites the racing now...
Evans and Ivan Basso look a little wary as the attacking begins...
Chris Horner accelerates away to stir the pot a little more...
Alberto Contador is starting to accelerate as well - he has Leipheimer and Scarponi on his wheel...
Contador and Leipheimer have moved away from the rest, but Contador is about to move away by himself...
Scarponi looks better than Leipheimer as the pair forlornly chase Contador to the summit-finish...
Alberto Contador has wons stage three to Pal in Andorra - and of course becomes the new race-leader...
Stage four saw the race speed out of the Pyrenees and head towards an expected sprint-finish in El Vendrell...
Tom Danielson tired to get a move away for Garmin, but there was little chance today...
Contador sits at the head of a peloton moving briskly along in pursuit of another escape...
There's a good sprint going on at the finish today...
Manuel Cardoso wins stage four ahead of Nizzolo and Rojas...
Stage five dawned bright and warm for the peloton...
Frederic Robert has crashed out of the race with some nasty leg injuries...
A Colombian rider is also in the wars today...
Jani Brajkovic is only here for the training in a race that has no time trial..!
Meyer is also Garmin's fall guy in the crashes...
Leipheimer leads a Radio Shack team sensing another sprint victory for Cardoso...
Samuel Dumoulin wins stage five into Tarragona...
More flat roads on stage six mean another easy day for race-leader Contador...
Craig Lewis is near the front of the peloton on a small climb, as is Sky's Morris Possoni...
Gert Dockx is trying to get an escape away for his Omega-Lotto team...
Phillip Deignan seems to be attacking ahead of Sastre - or are they both chasing..?
Another sprint finish in the Tour of Catalonia - but who can win this one..?
Cardoso, on the left, appeals against the sprinting of a Movistar rider...
Jose Joachin Rojas has won stage six - despite Cardoso's protests...
Samuel Dumoulin wins the final stage..!
