Spain's Freire Wins World Cycling Title
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Spain's Oscar Freire won the road race at the cycling world championships for the third time Sunday in a sprint finish. He joined Belgium's Eddy Merckx and Rik Van Steenbergen and Italy's Alfredo Binda as the only three-time winners.
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VOULIAGMENI Tyler Hamilton of the United States won the men&#39;s time trial gold medal Wednesday, beating defending champion Viatcheslav Ekimov of Russia and another American, Bobby Julich.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - Sharp-shooting Spain blew away   Greece 70-47 to capture an emotional first world basketball   championship gold medal on Sunday.
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Spaniard Eladio Jimenez has won the 10th stage of the Tour of Spain after a lone breakaway on the final decisive climb. The Spaniard won the stage
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BOURG-EN-BRESSE, France -- Tom Boonen of Belgium won Friday's sixth stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish, and Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara retained the leader's yellow jersey for a seventh straight day.
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Spain&#39;s Oscar Freire won the sixth stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Thursday, and countryman Manuel Beltran of the US Postal Service team kept his lead as the overall standings remained unchanged.
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Italy&#39;s Valentino Rossi, riding a Yamaha, won the Portuguese MotoGP race for the fourth year in a row to close on the world championship crown.
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Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan won the Spanish Vuelta on Sunday, with Tour de France winner Floyd Landis attending the final stage to support his former teammates.
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Caceres, Spain - Spain&#39;s Jose Cayetano Julia broke away from lead pack with 3km remaining and won the 16th leg of the Vuelta a Espana by 12 seconds while Roberto Heras retained the leader&#39;s golden jersey for the fifth consecutive stage.
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Denis Menchov of Russia won the fifth stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Wednesday, while Manuel Beltran of the U.S. Postal Service took the overall lead from teammate Benoit Joachim.
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Austria won the team competition title Sunday and finished with the most final medals at the Alpine Skiing World Championships.
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FRANCE finally struck cycling gold when Julien Absalon won the mountain bike cross country title today in the last cycling race of the Games.
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Welsh cyclist Nicole Cooke claims the World Cup title after a fourth place in the Lowland Rotterdam Tour.
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Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan wins the Tour of Spain on Sunday.
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The most consistent rider in cycling, Erik Zabel (Germany), once again had to settle for a second place as he was beaten by Oscar Freire in the final sprint of the Elite Men&#39;s Road Race in Verona yesterday.
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Valencia, Spain - World champion Valentino Rossi of Italy won the MotoGP at the season-ending Valencia Grand Prix on Sunday, adding more glory to a fabulously successful year.
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MARSEILLE, France  - Cedric Vasseur clinched the host country's first win in this year's Tour de France with victory on the 229.5-km 10th stage on Wednesday.