Bago wins Arc de Triomphe with late sprint
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Seemingly beaten as the field turned for home, Bago made a surging stretch run Sunday to win the Prix de l&#39;Arc de Triomphe, the most prestigious horse race in Europe.
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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 in three days of racing, winning the difficult mountain route by 38 seconds.
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France's Jerome Pineau (La Boulangere) won Thursday afternoon's Paris-Bourges race (1.2) from Swiss Martin Elmiger of Phonak.
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Italian Ivano Brugnetti strode to victory in the first athletics final of the Athens Olympics on Friday with a commanding performance in the men&#39;s 20km walk.
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Igor Andreev tamed a leaping Marcos Baghdatis with a 2-6 6-1 6-3 6-4 win to reach the quarter-finals of a grand slam for the first time at the French Open on Monday.
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Fabian Cancellara ends the three-year reign of Michael Rogers as he wins the time trial at the World Cycling Championships.
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Stage 5: Chablis to Autun, 113.4 miles. Stage winner: Filippo Pozzato (Italy), Liquigas, in 4 hours 39 minutes 1 second.
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France's Julien Absalon wins gold in the men's mountain bike cross-country.
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Fabian Cancellara storms to victory in the Tour de France prologue in London, with Bradley Wiggins in fourth.
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Italian Alessandro Petacchi scooped the bunch sprint to win Sunday&#39;s second stage of the Tour of Spain. German Erik Zabel was second in the 207 k run from Leon to Burgos with Spaniard Oscar Freire finishing third.
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Spain&#39;s Constantino Zaballa broke away early and finished more than a minute ahead of his closest competitors in winning the 19th stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Friday.
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New Olympic record holder British cyclist Bradley Wiggins won the men&#39;s individual pursuit at the Athens Olympics with a time of 4:16.
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The Spaniard, riding for Saunier Duval, broke away early in the day to win the 142km (88 mile) stage between Avila and Collado Villalba by over a minute.
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BAGO cast his doubters&#39; words back in their faces with a stirring success in the Prix de l&#39;Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp yesterday.
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Italian Stefano Baldini won the Olympic men&#39;s marathon overnight after a spectator dashed on to the course late in the race and bundled the then leader Vanderlei de Lima into the crowd.
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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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Stage 4: Villers-Cotterets to Joigny, 119.9 miles. Stage winner: Thor Hushovd (Norway), Credit Agricole, in 4 hours 37 minutes 47 seconds.