Cancellara takes Tour de France prologue
LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) - Swiss Fabian Cancellara of the
CSC team won the 7.9-km prologue of the Tour de France on the
streets of London on Saturday.
Cancellara, already a winner of the Tour's opening time
trial in 2004, coped perfectly with the flat course starting at
Trafalgar Square and finishing in The Mall to set the best time
of eight minutes 50 seconds, according to provisional results.
The 26-year-old Swiss will be the first to wear the yellow
jersey after beating German Andreas Kloeden of the Astana team
by 13 seconds. American George Hincapie of the Discovery Channel
came home third.
Two years to the day after 52 London commuters were killed
in attacks on three underground trains and a bus, 5,000 police
officers were deployed along the course which passed Hyde Park,
Westminster and Buckingham Palace.
