France's Calzati wins Tour de France stage
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On a day when France was focused on its soccer team&#039;s appearance in the World Cup final, Frenchman Sylvain Calzati gave the nation a reason to start celebrating early by winning stage eight of the Tour de France.
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GHENT, Belgium -- Gert Steegmans 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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Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez, a 24-year-old Colombian, became the second Tour de France rookie to win a stage in three days of racing, winning the difficult mountain route by 38 seconds.
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Halfway through the Tour de France, no compelling newcomer has broken through, no favorite has emerged and doping allegations have surfaced yet again. Cedric Vasseur became the first French rider to win a stage this year, but his victory and the Tour were overshadowed by the announcement of the doping test on cyclist Patrik Sinkewitz during a training session last month that turned up high levels of testosterone.
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Filippo Pozzato of Italy won the fifth stage of the Tour de France on Thursday which featured a crash involving top riders Alexandre Vinokourov and Andreas Kloden.
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AUTUN, France -- Filippo Pozzato of Italy won the fifth stage of the Tour de France on Thursday, and Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara held on to the leader's yellow jersey for the sixth straight day.
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Fabian Cancellara storms to victory in the Tour de France prologue, with Bradley Wiggins in fourth.
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France's Stephane Peterhansel successfully defends his Dakar Rally title.
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The overall Tour de France leader bagged another stage victory and held the yellow jersey thanks to a lightning-fast attack that he mounted in the final half-mile.
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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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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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CASTRES, France  - Belgian Tom Boonen made an important step towards his first green jersey with victory in the 178.5-km 12th stage of the Tour de France on Friday.
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Australian Robbie McEwen of the Predictor-Lotto team won the first stage of the Tour de France, a 203-km ride from London to Canterbury on Sunday.
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Filippo Pozzato snatches victory on stage five of the Tour de France but Alexandre Vinokourov loses 1'26" on the leaders.
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Stage 3 : Waregem (Belgium) to Compiegne (France), 146.9 miles. Stage winner : Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland), CSC, in 6 hours 36 minutes 15 seconds. How he did it : Cancellara said he was surprised to see the riders at the front of the peloton looking disorganized as the final sprint set up. He seized the opportunity and held off onrushers ...
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Riding in his first Tour de France, Germany's Linus Gerdemann earns his first stage victory and takes the overall lead on Saturday.
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Tour leader Fabian Cancellara takes an amazing sprint victory in the third stage of the Tour de France.