Virenque, who took the mantle of leadership on Monday thanks to a long breakaway, was the victim of a similar attack today.

Edwards said he is most impressed that few of Martin's yards have come on long breakaways, but rather on punishing short bursts.

Smaller teams may simply get riders into a long breakaway to get coverage on television.

Richter stopped Jagr on a long breakaway that could have changed things after the Rangers took a 3-0 lead.

He has the reputation of being an aggressive rider who likes to take part in long breakaways.

Those pressures and difficulties include long breakaways by opponents, like the one today.

Exhausted by a long breakaway, he finished nearly 15 minutes behind the winner.

In 2011, he won the Paris-Camembert classic, again after being part of a long breakaway.

That did not stop him from going into a long breakaway on the sixth stage of Paris-Nice.

After a long breakaway with three others, Nevens zipped away from them with a little more than a kilometer to go.