Tight race in Luxembourg

Flecha plays with the camera in 2006

Flecha plays with the camera in 2006 (Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Rabobank's Juan Antonio Flecha took over the general classification in stage one of the Skoda Tour of Luxembourg following a challenging stage which saw the morning's leader, Jimmy Engoulvent (Crédit Agricole), dropped on a cobbled climb on the final circuit. Flecha, who finished second to Engoulvent in the opening prologue, now leads the overall classification by just fractions of a second over three men - Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ceramica Panaria), Gorik Gardeyn (Unibet.com), and Gregory Rast (Astana).