Colombia&#39;s Cardenas wins 17th stage; Heras overall leader
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Felix Cardenas of Colombia won the 17th stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Wednesday, and defending champion Roberto Heras held onto the overall leader&#39;s jersey for the sixth straight day.
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Argentina&#39;s Guillermo Canas won his third title of the year Sunday with a 6-1, 6-0 rout of Germany&#39;s Lars Burgsmuller at the Shanghai Open.
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Heikki Kovalainen of Finland beat world rally champion Sebastien Loeb of France to win the Race of Champions on Saturday. Kovalainen downed Loeb 2-0 in a best-of-three legs final at Stade de France after overcoming
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SIERRA NEVADA, SPAIN - A second consecutive stage win for Spaniard Santiago Perez in the Tour of Spain cycling race propelled him into third place overall today.
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TOP sprinter Alessandro Petacchi, of the Fassa Bortolo team, won the fourth stage of the Tour of Spain, a 167.5km ride from Soria to Zaragoza in the north of the country today.
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Sport: Tour de France: Colombian Juan Mauricio Soler wins stage nine on a brutal day in the Alps.
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BRIANCON, France -- Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez of Colombia won Tuesday's ninth stage of the Tour de France, with Michael Rasmussen of Denmark retaining the yellow jersey after the last Alpine stage.
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Spain's Javier Pascual Rodriguez edged Colombia's Ivan Parra at the finish Thursday to win the 18th stage of the Spanish Vuelta, his fourth win of the race.
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In Burgos, Spain, Alessandro Petacchi sprinted to victory Sunday in the second stage of the Spanish Vuelta, and Max van Heeswijk of the US Postal Service team took the overall lead in the year&#39;s last major European cycling race.
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COMPIEGNE, France  - A late burst of speed gave overall leader Fabian Cancellara a dazzling victory in the third stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday.
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Ãscar Freire of Spain, a three-time world champion, won the second stage of the Vuelta a EspaÃ±a in a sprint finish yesterday and took the overall lead. Freire, who rides for Rabobank, captured the 92-mile leg in 3 hours 31 minute 3 seconds. Erik Zabel of Team Milram trails Freire for the overall lead with the same time.
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Argentina&#39;s Guillermo Canas had an easy time winning the final of the Heineken Open in Shanghai. Canas, the No. 3 seed, rolled to his third ATP tournament win this season with a 6-1 6-0 straight-sets victory over Lars Burgsmuller of Germany.
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Roberto Heras of Spain won his second straight Spanish Vuelta, one of cycling's top races.
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Alejandro Valverde won the rainy third stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Monday while the US Postal Service team, led by Benoit Joachim, held the top seven spots in the overall standings.
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Colombia&#39;s Camilo Villegas hits out of a bunker on the 15th hole during round 2 of the Australian Golf Open in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Nov. 26, 2004.
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Alejandro Valverde threw down the gauntlet to the other contenders in the Tour of Spain cycle race by winning stage three between Burgos and Soria.
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Defending champion Roberto Heras grabbed the lead of the Spanish Vuelta on Thursday by winning the tour's toughest stage to the Calar Alto mountain pass.