31. The defending champion was Tim Wellens ( ), who won the 2014 Eneco Tour in the penultimate stage . 32. The Spanish driver won four of five stages Sunday, overtaking Juha Kankkunen of Finland on the penultimate stage . 33. Bartali then took over the lead in the mountains, but Valetti took it back in the penultimate stage . 34. A defeat of Galway in the penultimate stage of the championship set up a championship decider with Cork. 35. In Sean Kelly had taken over the lead on the penultimate stage , with a difference of 4 points. 36. Italian rider Danilo Di Luca captured the penultimate stage and the overall lead of the Tirreno-Adriatico race Tuesday. 37. There was no further change to the top of the leader board until the penultimate stage , stage twenty-one. 38. Pedro Torres put in an attack on the penultimate stage on the climb to Puerto de la Morcuera. 39. But the Rabobank rider never hit top form and was back in 54th place before the penultimate stage . 40. Italian Francesco Casagrande took the penultimate stage of the Tour de Suisse Wednesday and virtually guaranteed himself overall victory.
