Iban to focus on stages

Iban will go for stages in this year`s Tour, not the overall. Iban said this to DEIA yesterday, stating: "Through the years I`ve learned what the Tour is about. I will not go for the GC. If I could choose between a stage-win and a fourth or fifth place on GC, I would have chosen the stage-win. Everybody remembers me from 2003 because of my win on the Alpe d`Huez, not because I was 6th overall. I`ll do the Tour in hope of winning a stage, but if the opportunity of a high overall placing arises, I`ll perhaps take both. I showed this in the Giro; if I had given it my all every day, I could have ended up between the first 15 on GC, but, in the end, a stage-win was better for me".