AP PRATO NEVOSO, Italy - - Frank Schleck surged in the final 500 yards of the uphill finish of Stage 15 Sunday to take the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.
Whether he can maintain the overall lead remains to be seen with the race continuing in the Alps, where countless riders have been broken.

(07-21) 04:00 PDT Prato Nevoso, Italy -- The CSC team had been warning for a week that its riders would attack Cadel Evans in the Alps. But on a steep

PRATO NEVOSO, Italy (AP) - The Tour de France still has no definitive leader through 15 stages. One trend is quite clear, though: Team CSC is the strongest squad.
Bjarne Riis' riders continually attacked race favorite Cadel Evans as the Tour hit the Alps on Sunday, and CSC's Frank Schleck took the overall leader's yellow jersey from Evans.
dy, along with another CSC climbing specialist — Carlos Sastre of Spain — exposed Evans' biggest problem: a lack of support riders in the mountains.

Stage 15 of the Tour will be remembered just as much for its wipeouts as it will for Frank Schleck's career-first yellow jersey.
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Frank Schleck,of Luxembourg, seized the overall lead in the Tour de France as the race headed into the Italian Alps. "For me to take the yellow jersey, it's a childhood dream," the CSC team member said. Australia's Simon Gerrans won Sunday's 15th stage. Spain's Oscar Pereiro, who won in 2006 after Floyd Landis was stripped of his title, crashed out, breaking his shoulder.
Greece, which stunned the United States in basketball two years ago, will join the Americans at the Olympics in a strong Group B, which now includes all three medalists from the last world championships. Germany also was drawn into Group B after beating Puerto Rico 96-82 on Sunday behind 32 points from

An action packed weekend's racing in the Tour de France has seen Cadel Evans relinquish the yellow jersey to Frank Schleck, but only by 8 seconds.
Following Oscar Freire’s sprint victory in the 14th stage, the 15th stage on Sunday finished on a 11km climb with Australian Simon Gerrans riding to the stage victory after being part of the big break of the day from the early kilometres of the stage.
loses another minute or two in the mountains.

PRATO NEVOSO, ITALY - Frank Schleck of Luxembourg likes to attack. He also likes the look of his yellow jersey.
He became the new leader of the Tour de France on Sunday. Whether that lasts remains to be seen. The race is in the Alps, where countless riders have been broken.

Luxembourgeois Frank Schleck is in possession of the yellow jersey after stage 15. Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
The high mountains of the Tour de France sometimes flatter to deceive, promising more than they deliver in terms of their impact on the race. Not yesterday. As stage 15 took the riders into the Alps, over the road-to-the-sky that is the Agnel pass, and then up to the Italian ski station of Prato Nevoso, the race exploded and Cadel Evans bid adieu to the yellow jersey. It now sits on the slim shoulders of the Luxembourgeois Frank Schleck.
pport, Evans, had his shortcomings horribly exposed towards the end of the final climb.

By JAMES STARTT Bicycling Magazine continues its daily dispatches from the Tour de France for The Wall Street Journal with a report from the 15th stage.

By James Fish Simon Gerrans crosses the finish line just ahead of Egoi Martinez (L) to win Stage Fifteen of the 2008 Tour de France.

Prato Nevoso, Italy (Sports Network) - Australian Simon Gerrans won a sprint to the finish line to capture Stage 15 of the Tour de France, while Frank Schleck of Luxembourg wrestled the overall lead from Cadel Evans in cycling's most prestigious event.
Gerrans completed the 183-kilometer jaunt, featuring three climbs, from Embrun, France to Prato Nevoso, Italy in a time of four hours, 50 minutes and 44 seconds. Spaniard Egoi Martinez was second, three seconds back, with American Danny Pate finishing third, 10 seconds off the pace.
is fifth in the overall standings.

(CNN) -- Frank Schleck of Luxembourg seized the overall race lead in the Tour de France after a dramatic first stage in the Alps, won by Australian Simon