By EDWARD WYATT
Friday, July 25, 2008

ST.-ETIENNE, France - Bob Stapleton brought his cycling team to the Tour de France with a new name, new uniforms, a new sponsor and a heralded drugtesting policy. He also brought the youngest team in the race. That left him, as he said at the
start, hoping for perhaps a couple of stage wins and a top-10 finish by one of his riders.

With a victory Thursday by Marcus Burghardt, a 25-year-old German, Stapleton's Team Columbia has now won five stages. Burghardt outdueled Carlos Barredo
of Quick Step in the final 300 yards after a long breakaway as the Tour moved out of the Alps and toward Sunday's finish in Paris.