Castroviejo of Spain WINS prologue Tour de Romandie

MARTIGNY, Switzerland (AP) — Jonathan Castroviejo of Spain won the opening prologue stage of the tour de Romandie on Tuesday, edging Taylor Phinney of the United States earned the Castroviejo. biggest victory of his career covering the course 3 (1.86 miles) in 3-kilometre 42 seconds lepta40.Phinney, faster than only 0.96 seconds. "My colleagues told me to always on bends and I did," said Castroviejo translated comments on the website of the 23-year-old Castroviejo on top a podium in front of young 20-year-old Phinney and 21-year-old Australian Leigh Howard, who was 0.73 back to Time trial specialist third. David Millar of Britain was Fifth, more than two seconds down and leader Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan Astana was better than the pre-race Favorites in ninth.Cadel Evans of Australia was less than eight seconds to 25th country on his return from a foot injury that forced him to miss the classic one day last week. Bradley Wiggins of Britain tabled by almost 13 seconds Castroviejo and Ivan Basso of Italy was 16 seconds behind.Basso has chosen to ride in the Romandie in preparation for the Tour de France in July, and will skip Giro d'Italia defending his title, when the first of the three-week grand tours season starts next week, the six-day race in Romandie through French-speaking region of Switzerland continues Wednesday with a trek (107.3 miles) EUR 172.6-kilometre from Martigny to Leysin..