Vuelta Stage 5: Gross Greipel Strucked Again

After winning the crash affected Stage 4 two days ago, Andre Greipel continues the domination of Team Colombia-HTC in this year Vuelta de Espana by comfortably winning today's 5th stage from Tarragona to Vigaros, beating Tom Boonen and Danielle Bennati towards the finish line. It was the 2nd win for Greipel and the 3rd for his team in this year Vuelta. With this win, Greipel finally manages to grab the 'Maillot Oro' from Saxo Bank's Fabian Cancellara, by the virtue of time bonuses. Greipel now leads the Vuelta by six seconds from Boonen heading into tomorrow's sixth stage around the town of Xativa.

Carnage at Liege

Andre Greipel of Germany won the 4th stage of 2009 Vuelta de Espana yesterday from Venlo to Liege. However, the main point of this stage is the series of crash culminated with the the massive pile-up inside 2km from the finish line that took out almost the whole peloton.

Der Tank von Rostock

Broken wrist for Horner.