VOIGT WINS LONGEST STAGE, LANDIS GIVES UP YELLOW

Jens Voigt wins stage 13 2006 Tour de France

published 15 July 2006

Germany's Jens Voigt (CSC) won the longest stage of the Tour de France on Saturday, as the bunch took a day off in the scorching heat and let Spain's Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) take the yellow jersey.

The big German outsprinted Pereiro after the two jumped away from Sylvain Chavanel (Cofidis) and Manuel Quinziato (Liquigas) three kilometres from the finish of the 230km stage.

Pereiro was disappointed to miss out on the stage victory but had the surprise consolation of taking the yellow jersey. He was 28-50 down at the start of the stage but took the race lead after the Phonak team slowed the bunch in the final kilometres so that Landis would lose the jersey and so have two quiet days before the decisive Alpine stages. Landis finished 29-57 behind Pereiro and so the Spaniard -who rode for Phonak in 2005, now leads the Tour by 1-29. Frenchman Cyril Dessel is third at 1-39.

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VOIGT WINS LONGEST STAGE, LANDIS GIVES UP YELLOW

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