Tour de Suisse

This years Tour de Suisse, while not coming to a close until after Sunday's 32km ITT, already looks - baring any crashes - wrapped up by Lampre ISD's Italian superstar Damiano Cunego. This looks to be good news for the Lampre squad who have been supporting Cunego since he joined in 2005 after his Giro D'Italia win in 2004 at the young age of 22.

He has since had a relatively quiet career always placing well in overall standings but baring 2 more top 10 finishes in the Giro, a win at the 2008 Amstel Gold race and best young rider in the 2006 Tour, has yet to rack up another major victory.

This year however he has been performing well and is now back inside the UCI world top 75 after picking up a stage at the Tour de Romandie. After now looking to have wrapped up the definite "pre Tour fitness" race at the Tour de Suisse it will be very interestng to see how he fairs against Lampre's newest addition - 3rd ranked in the world this year - Michele Scarponi come the Tour next month.

The stages thus far at this years TDS have turned out in the following fashion:

Stage 1 prologue: Cancellara 1st - 9 seconds in front of Tejay Van Garderen in 2nd

Stage 2 149km mountains: Movistar's Juan Moricio Soler breaks from Cunego, Frank Schleck and Danilo Di Luca to take the win

Stage 3 107km mountains: Peter Sagan from Liquigas pips Damiano Cunego to the finish in a very close few meters

Stage 4 198km rollers: Thor Hushovd finally picks up his first stage win of the year to outsprint Peter Sagan from Liquigas

Stage 5 204km flat: Vacansolei's team work paid off for Borut Bozic as they outsmart the sprinters teams to beat Oscar Friere and once again...Peter Sagan to pick up the win

Stage 6 157km mountains: After his impressive top 10 in the Giro D'Italia Rabobank's Steven Kruijswijk outclimbs the rest of the field to take an impressive win atop of the HC Triesenberg/Malbun ascent

Stage 7 222km mountains: Large 17 man break propels Andy Schleck and Vacansolei's Thomas De Gendt to a final attack - De Gendt took the win with Schleck a further 35 seconds back.

Tomorrow is the final full stage of racing before the final 32km ITT on Sunday. The GC, as mentioned, is currently looking well wrapped up by Cunego and I have summarised the top 50 below. Assuming all things stay the same Damiano will take the win and himself along with Frank Schleck, Bauke Mollema and Steven Kuijswijk will all be heading into the Tour with some confidence.

GC Summary

1st - 27:09:49 Damiano Cunego

2nd - 0:01:23 Bauke Mollema

3rd - 0:01:36 Steven Kruijswijk

4th - 0:01:41 Frank Schleck

5th - 0:01:59 Levi Leipheimer

12th - 0:05:15 Maxime Monfort

20th - 0:16:18 Andy Schleck

22nd - 0:19:30 Ryder Hesjedal

41nd - 0:34:52 Andreas Kloden