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Quick Step's Stijn Devolder wins the overall title at Portugal's Algarve tour.
High Road's Bernhard Eisel gets solo stage win
Published: Feb. 24, 2008
Belgian Stijn Devolder (QuickStep) won the 34th edition of Portugal's Tour of the Algarve Sunday, on a day when Team High Road's Bernhard Eisel won his fourth career Algarve stage, this time by solo'ing away from a breakaway in the final kilometers.
The Austrian was followed at 3 seconds by Benfica's Rui Costa and Celestino Pinho of Barbot-Siper in the 194-kilometer stage finishing in Portimão.
Devolder was joined on the GC podium by Cofidis's Sylvain Chavanel and Astana's Tomas Vaitkus of Lithuania.
