Boonen clinches first win on Tour in two years
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BOURG-EN-BRESSE, France  - Belgian Tom Boonen clinched his first win in two years on the Tour de France when he took the race's sixth stage, a 199.5-km ride from Semur-en-Auxois to Bourg-en-Bresse on Friday.
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Julien Absalon, whose focus had been on Athens since failing to make France's Olympic team four years ago, pulls away in the second half of the mountain bike race and eases to victory in 2 hours, 15 minutes, 2 seconds.
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Daniele Bennati of Italy won the opening leg of the Tour of Spain, cyclingâs most important race after the Tour de France and the Tour of Italy.Bennati captured two stages of this yearâs Tour de France, including the final dash along the Champs-ÃlysÃ©es. Yesterday, Bennati, a Lampre-Fondital rider, sprinted ahead of the pack to finish the 95-mile course in 3 hours 43 minutes 9 seconds in and around the port city of Vigo.Alessandro Petacchi, a sprint specialist, finished third in the same time, just behind Oscar Freire of Rabobank. The favorites Allan Davis of Discovery Channel and Tom Boonen of Quick Step-Innergetic were fourth and fifth.Alexandre Vinokourov, the winner of last yearâs race, was not among the 189 starters after he tested positive for blood doping at this yearâs Tour de France.
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ATHENS - Australia won the Olympic men&#39;s hockey title for the first time in history on Friday, beating defending champions the Netherlands 2-1 with a golden goal.
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Bradley Wiggins has given Britain their second Olympic cycling gold medal in two days, winning the men&#39;s 4-km individual pursuit.
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Linus Gerdemann of Germany won Saturdayâs seventh stage of the Tour de France to take the overall leaderâs yellow jersey as the race entered the Alps.
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Gert Steegmans of Belgium won the second stage of the Tour de France in his home country Monday, with many riders left cut and bruised following a crash minutes before the finish.
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In the last stage before three days of grueling mountain rides in the Alps, Tom Boonen won the sixth stage of the Tour de France and Fabian Cancellara retained the overall lead.
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JOIGNY, France  - Norway's Thor Hushovd claimed his first victory of the year when he clinched the fourth stage of the Tour de France, a 193-km trek from Villers-Cotterets to Joigny on Wednesday.
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SACRAMENTO, Ca.  - Former world road champion Tom Boonen of Belgium sprinted past Mark Cavendish of Britain in the final 50 meters to win a rainy second stage of the Tour of California on Tuesday.
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BOURG-EN-BRESSE, France  - Belgian Tom Boonen won the sixth stage of the Tour de France, a 199.5-km ride from Semur-en-Auxois to Bourg-en-Bresse on Friday.
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Australian sprint star Robbie McEwen won the first stage of the Tour de France on Sunday despite hurting his wrist in a crash late in the ride from London across the English countryside.
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Retief Goosen won the Nedbank Challenge by six strokes in his home country yesterday, closing with a 3-under-par 69 and earning $1.2 million.
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WOBURN, England  - Sweden's Henrik Stenson ended a  three-year barren spell with a four-stroke victory in The  Heritage on Sunday to take his second European Tour title.
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Denmark's Martin Pedersen, of the CSC team, won the Tour of Britain following the 82km sixth and final stage in and around London won by Belgian sprinter Tom Boonen.
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BRIANCON, France  - Juan Mauricio Soler of Colombia won the 159.5-km ninth stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday.
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Ivan Basso beat fellow Italian Francesco Casagrande in a two-way sprint Saturday to win the Tour of Emilia, a warmup race for next month&#39;s road cycling World Championships in Verona.