Tour de France 2005 Daily Blog - Stage Sixteen

The take-off today is from Mourenx, a small city known for its big sporting spirit. With a mere 8,000-person population, it has a water sports complex and a national women's basketball team. The day's racing ends in Pau, a city with an amazing location near the Pyrenees, Spain, Lourdes and Tarbes. The city's finest attraction is its legendary chateau, where the future King Henry IV was born and rocked in a tortoise-shell cradle (still on display there). Pau is the ideal destination for any Tour de France fan, having hosted 59 stages since 1930.
Results and standings
Spaniard Oscar Pereiro Sio earned his first stage win today in Pau. The top 10 for Stage 16 is:

• 1. Oscar Pereiro Sio (Spain) PHO - 180.5km in 4h38’40" (38.863km/h)
• 2. Xabier Zandio (Spain) IBA - at same time
• 3. Eddy Mazzoleni (Italy) LAM - at same time
• 4. Cadel Evans (Australia) DVL - at same time
• 5. Philippe Gilbert (Belgium) FDJ - at 2’52"
• 6. Anthony Geslin (France) BTL at 2’25"
• 7. Jorg Ludewig (Germany) DOM at 2’25
• 8. Juan Antonio Flecha (Spain) FAS at 2’25"
• 9. Ludovic Turpin (France) A2R at 2’25"
• 10. Cedric Vasseur (France) COF at 2’25"

The top 10 for general classification:

• 1. Lance Armstrong (USA) DSC - 2,826km in 66h52’03" (42.034km/h)
• 2. Ivan Basso (Italy) CSC - at 2’46"
• 3. Mickael Rasmussen (Denmark) RAB - at 3’09"
• 4. Jan Ullrich (Germany) TMO - at 5’08"
• 5. Franciso Mancebo (Spain) IBA - at 6’31"
• 6. Levi Leipheimer (USA) GST - at 7’35"
• 7. Cadel Evans (Australia) DVL - at 9’29"
• 8. Floyd Landis (USA) PHO - at 9’33"
• 9. Alexandre Vinokourov (Kazakstahn) TMO - at 9’38"
• 10. Christophe Moreau (France) C.A - at 11’47"

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