Voigt holds on to win in Poland

German Jens Voigt showed that the third time is the charm by winning the 2008 Tour of Poland. After coming second in 1999 and 2001, Voigt rode himself into the lead on the wintry, hilly stage six, and then held on during the final stage to maintain his 1'22" lead over his teammate Lars Bak. Robert Förster (Gerolsteiner) took the sprint on another shortened stage on Sunday ahead of Alberto Curtolo (Liquigas) and Yauheni Hutarovich (FdJ).

Just as in the past few days, bad weather forced organisers to shorten the stage, which was slated to begin in Wadowice, but was moved further down the road to Rabka. This shortened the route from 153.6km down to 95.4. The first breakaway of the day was formed by four riders: Kazakh Roman Kirajew (Astana), Frenchman Anthony Charteau (Caisse d?Epargne), Italian Marco Bandiera (Lampre) and as ever one of the Polish riders – this time Lukasz Bodnar (Polska-BGZ). They were soon caught, however, by the very attentive Team CSC riders.

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