Rasmussen Widens Lead at Tour De France
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Spain's Alberto Contador wins the 14th stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, but Michael Rasmussen widens his overall lead.
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LOUDENVIELLE-LE-LOURON, France  - Alexander Vinokourov clinched his second victory of this year's Tour de France with panache when he won the 196-km 15th stage from Foix on Monday.
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Casey Stoner of Australia extended his overall world championship lead after storming to his fifth victory of the season at the British MotoGP here on Sunday.
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Overnight leader Sebastien Loeb responded to the challenge of Norway's Petter Solberg by extending his lead during the Rally of Great Britain.
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Tom Boonen of Belgium won Friday's 12th stage of the Tour de France, his second stage victory this year, and Michael Rasmussen of Denmark retained the overall lead.
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Michael Rasmussen put in a stellar ride today in the first of two time trials in the Tour de France and maintained his grip on the yellow jersey by one minute over Cadel Evans.
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Like a cyclist who can't shake his pursuers, the Tour de France continues to be dogged by the cloud of doping. Race leader Michael Rasmussen became the latest rider to face scrutiny Friday when he had to answer why he had been kicked off the national team for failing to report his whereabouts for drug-testing purposes.
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AMERICAN legend Lance Armstrong looks set to shelve plans to try to win a seventh successive Tour de France. The 33-year-old told L&#39;Equipe newspaper yesterday he had other ambitions in the sport before he
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Sport: Tour de France: Belgian sprinter closes in on green jersey with second win of this year's race.
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Yaroslav Popovych won stage 12 of the Tour de France on Friday, while American Floyd Landis retained the yellow jersey of the overall leader.
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The Tour de France is shaping up as a one-on-one between Michael Rasmussen and Alberto Contador. Not so much a street fight as a mountain fight.
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AUTUN, France  - Race favorite Alexander Vinokourov lost ground in his bid to win the Tour de France when he failed to recover fully from a crash towards the end of the fifth stage on Thursday.
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Michael Rasmussen retained the yellow jersey Thursday and Robert Hunter of South Africa sprinted at the end of the 113.4-mile route to Montpellier for the stage victory.
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US Postal&#39;s Floyd Landis, who was dropped on the final climb, retained the overall lead by just 8 seconds from Spain&#39;s Alejandro Valverde (Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme) who was fourth on the stage.
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nother stage victory for race leader Petter Solberg, his fifth since the start of the rally. The Subaru driver is not pulling away at a fast pace from Gronholm and Loeb but the gap is nonetheless increasing steadily.
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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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CALGARY -- Kananaskis Country will take on a Tour de France feel tomorrow as its perennial champion Lance Armstrong leads a swarm of cyclists through the Rockies.