RP riders drop to 7th place in Tour de Indonesia

Team 7-Eleven Roadbike Philippines slipped from fourth to seventh place in the overall team classification after the 192-kilometer penultimate stage from Gilimanuk to Denpasar of the Speedy Tour de Indonesia 2010. Apart from Tots Oledan and John Mark Lexer Galedo, the three other 7-Eleven riders dropped from their respective spots in the overall individual classification after finishing with the 39-man main peloton, exactly three minutes and 30 seconds behind the 27-man first group led by lap winner Russian Sergey Kudentsov of Polygon Sweet Nice. Oledan and Kudentsov, who won his third lap honors, were given an identical time of 3 hours, 14 minutes and 51 seconds. Oledan, who just joined the team two weeks before the trip, actually checked in seventh in the stage. Previously on 20th spot before the penultimate stage, Oledan is now in 10th spot, three minutes and 3 seconds behind overall leader Herwin Jaya of Polygon Sweet Nice. Jaya has an aggregate time of 25:15:54. Oledan's teammates — Sherwin Carrera, John Mark Lexer Galedo, Joel Calderon and Baler Ravina — checked in at 31st, 47th, 62nd and 63rd respectively. Ravina slipped to 14th spot from 7th, while Calderon and Carrera dropped from 36th and 37th to 42nd and 43rd, respectively. Galedo moved up to 74th from 76th spot despite finishing with the group. 7-Eleven now trails overall team leader Polygon Sweet Nice by 12 minutes and 10 seconds going into the final stage, a 117.6-kiolomter criterium race which will be held in Denpasar. - KY, RCJ, GMANews.TV