VALVERDE TAKES CONTROL OF DAUPHINE LIBERE

Alejandro Valverde Dauphine 2008 stage 3
(Image credit: LUC CLAESSEN)

Is there anything Alejandro Valverde can?t do? After outsprinting Hushovd on Monday, on Wednesday the versatile Spaniard outgunned the time triallists for his second stage win - and the lead.

It has to be said that if there was ever going to be a medium-length time trial that Valverde could win, it was this one.

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