And the winner is...Booby J
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The CSC team leader, third in the Tour de France in 1998, was 12th at
the start of Wednesday's stage, 37 seconds behind Belgian Rik
Verbrugghe.
However he was in a class of his own in the final solo stage, leaving
second-placed Belgian Leif Hoste 37 seconds adrift.
Overall, Julich beat Dutchman Erik Dekker by 21 seconds with Hoste
third, 41 seconds behind.
Prologue winner Verbrugghe cracked in the flat, straight time trial,
finishing 1:30 behind the American.
Before this year Julich had struggled to live up to his podium placing
in the 1998 Tour de France and went six seasons without a win until he
joined Danish team CSC last season.
This year the American also won the Criterium International and
finished 17th in the Tour de France after working as team mate for
second-placed Italian Ivan Basso.
The week-long Tour of Benelux, launched this year to replace the Tour
of the Netherlands, has signed a four-year contract with the new UCI
ProTour which includes all the top teams and events on the cycling
calendar.
Italian Danilo Di Luca currently leads the Pro Tour standings on 184
points ahead of American seven-times Tour de France champion Lance
Armstrong, who has 139 points, and Kazakhstan's Alexander Vinokourov on
136, with Julich fourth on 130.
But the event's debut was marred by logistic problems and incidents and
teams warned that organisers needed to improve matters next season if
they wished to attract top riders.
On Sunday three breakaways had to be stopped by the police after the
chasing pack went the wrong way and had to be guided back to the course
by Verbrugghe himself, who lives in the area.
"It was totally chaotic," said CSC team chief Tristan Hoffmann.
Team chiefs also complained about dangerous stage finishes and poor
accommodation.
The Pro Tour continues in Spain at the weekend with the Clasica San
Sebastian.
