Fedrigo takes the advantage at Critérium International

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Pierrick Fedrigo upstaged the more fancied favourites to claim victory in the first stage of the Critérium International, dropping closest challenger Tiago Machado in the last kilometre.

Though the mountainous first stage in Corsica had been billed as a tasty showdown between in-form Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong, both rivals failed to perform on the 14-kilometre finishing climb of the Col d'Ospedale.

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