18-Jul-2009: Cervélo Test Team was once again in the thick of the action Saturday at the 2009 Tour de France as Hayden Roulston joined the winning 12-man breakaway and attacked to finish third in the 199km 14th stage from Colmar to Besancon.
Russian rider Serguei Ivanov attacked with about 11km to go to solo to victory. Roulston chased in vain, but the Russian crossed the line 16 seconds clear.
“I was there to win the stage. You had to be strong and smart to win today, and I just missed out, so I am a little bit disappointed,” said Roulston, a winner of two Olympic medals on the track last summer in Beijing. “It’s always a 50-50 thing (when a rider attacks out of break), do you or don’t you. Do you chase and let someone else attack you or do you wait? There was still 10km to go (when Ivanov attacked), so I waited. It turns out it was a harder day than people thought.”
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