Fabian Wegmann: "Wow!!!"

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New leader (Image credit: Luc Claessen)

"Wow!!! My second Pro Tour win, and in France, of all places, where I've never won anything before!" said Fabian Wegmann, the happy winner of the Dauphine Libéré's first stage on Monday, who described his coup on his website, www.fabianwegmann.de. "The whole day went by quietly in the peloton and I even had time to enjoy the beautiful weather." With 14 km to go, however, the quiet time was over and Wegmann got down to it. Nicolas Inaudi was finally caught by the peloton "and I attacked at exactly that moment for the mountain points (4th category). Mancebo, Voeckler, and Martinez, three explosive types, came over the mountain with me."