Stage Eighteen...

Stage Eighteen:
1st: Matteo Tosatto - Italy - Quickstep - 4:16:15
2nd: Cristian Moreni - Italy - Cofidis - 4:16:15
3rd: Ronny Scholz - Germany - Gerolsteiner - 4:16:17

Overall:
1st: Oscar Pereiro - Spain - Caisse d'Epargne-Illes - 84:33:04
2nd: Carlos Sastre - CSC - Spain - ( + :12)
3rd: Floyd Landis - USA - Phonak - (+ :30)
Other notables:
4th: Andreas Kloden - Germany - T-Mobile (+ 2:29)
5th: Cadel Evans - Australia - Lotto - (+ 3:08)
13th: Levi Leipheimer - USA - Gerolsteiner (+ 15:01)
19th: Jose Azevedo - Portugal - Discovery (+ 34:01)
25th: Yaroslav Popovich - Ukraine - Discovery (+ 48:45)
32nd: George Hincapie - USA - Discovery (+ 1:07:33)

Yellow Jersey (Overall Leader): Oscar Periero
Green Jersey(Top Points Earner): Robbie McEwen (Austrailia)
White Jersey(Best Young Rider): Damiano Cunego (Italy)
Red Polka Dot Jersey (King of the Mountain): Michael Rasmussen
Yellow Numbers (Best Team): T-Mobile
Red Number (Most Competitive): Levi Leipheimer

Compared to the last few days, today's stage was quiet. A relatively flat stage with a perfect sprinters' finish, a breakaway of 15 riders survived, with three leaders separating from that to win the stage. Leipheimier tried valiantly for a stage win, but attacked too soon and was picked back up. Other than that, nothing really changed. Egoi Martinez was in the breakaway for Discovery, further proving they were trying to salvage an otherwise distasterous tour with stage wins. No luck on that, though. All anyone was really talking about was the miraculous turn-around for Landis, and how, essentially, he is the front runner, despite being in third. The time-trial is his play ground and in the Stage 7 ITT, he finished over a minute ahead of the two men ahead of him. I don't want to jinx it...but he's right there. Barring extreme circumstance...but you can't really do that on this tour. It is literally coming down to this. Tomorrow's stage should be fantastic. Please please please don't choke Floyd!!