Cavendish shot across the line first, for his third individual stage win of the Giro.
It was Van Garderen's first individual stage victory on the World Tour.
He gradually honed his stagecraft – "hanging cut, listening to stories, picking up ideas, one-liners, jokes" – and eventually developed his highly individual stage persona and style.
He is likely to prosper in what amounts to a home race, one where he captured five individual stage victories in 2008 and 2009.
The rest are there to do other things – to help their team leaders, to chase individual stage wins, and above all to gain publicity for their sponsors.
The mechanism of an individual stage of a reaction can be described as unimolecular, bimolecular, and so on, according to the number of molecules necessarily concerned in covalency change in the transition state.
MAKING WAVES Continuing its dominance on the transoceanic stages of the Volvo Ocean Race, last Thursday the German yacht Illbruck recorded its fourth individual stage victory by winning Leg 7 from Chesapeake Bay to La Rochelle, France, in 10 days 20 hours 44 minutes...
Vande Velde was in good position to rack up his first individual stage victory when he and Fédrigo sped ahead from the breakaway group about three miles from the finish, but the French rider held him off in a sprint to the line.
Individual stage This stage is described in Fig. 2.
Tracer flowback profiles can reveal a fracture network at an individual stage.
