Cuche fastest in first Val Gardena training run
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VAL GARDENA, Italy  - Switzerland's Didier Cuche clocked the best time in the first training run on Wednesday for Saturday's men's World Cup downhill race.
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WORLD champion Michael Schumacher finished fastest after the opening day of practice for the Japanese Grand Prix as rain limited running at the Suzuka circuit today.
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Overall leader: Michael Rasmussen (Denmark), Rabobank, by 43 seconds over Linus Gerdemann (Germany), T-Mobile. Inside the peloton: Team CSC veteran Jens Voigt of Germany, on the Tour's first long time trial Saturday: "It's only important for 25 riders. For me, it's 'ride as slow as I can and still make the time cut.' It's half of a rest day." His ...
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Now for the hard part. Having made it through fast and dangerous racing during the opening flat stages of the Tour de France, riders veer Wednesday into the Pyrenees for their first encounter with the high mountains.
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Didier Cuche of Switzerland won the next to last World Cup downhill of the season on Saturday to clinch his first discipline title in the event.
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KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia  - Olympic champion Benjamin Raich stepped up his challenge to world gold medallist Aksel Lund Svindal with the fastest run in the first leg of a World Cup giant slalom race on Saturday.
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VAL GARDENA, Italy  - American Steve Nyman collected his first Alpine ski World Cup race victory on Saturday, upstaging compatriot Bode Miller in the Val Gardena downhill.
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Franck Montagny, R24-08, 135 laps, 597 km
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Stage 8: Le Grand Bornand to Tignes, 102 1/2 miles. Stage winner: Michael Rasmussen, Rabobank, in 4 hours 49 minutes 40 seconds.
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Finnish Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen has posted the fastest time on the first day of practice for this week&#39;s Belgian Grand Prix, where Michael Schumacher can capture the drivers&#39; title for the year.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - Local favorite Bode Miller, fresh from victory in Friday's downhill, was quickest in the first leg of a men's Alpine skiing World Cup giant slalom on Saturday.
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Werner Franz claimed his maiden World Cup downhill victory with a time of one minute 57.51 seconds at Val d&#39;Isere. The Austrian&#39;s victory means he becomes the first man to beat American Bode Miller, who finished fourth, in the discipline this season.
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July 15 -- Stage 8, Le Grand Bornand to Tignes, 102.5 miles After dawdling around for a week of stages suited to sprint finishers or breakaways, the Tour gets serious with its first uphill finish and one of only three in this year's race. The stage features three Category 1 climbs, and the first, up the Cornet de Roselend, is ...
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Ivan Basso won the Giro d&#039;Italia cycling race Sunday, beating second-place Jose Gutierrez Cataluna by more than nine minutes.
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. Grandi, who had never won in 12 years on the circuit before Sunday&#39;s victory in the Italian resort of Alta Badia, beat first-leg leader Didier Cuche of Switzerland by 0.15sec with a time of 2min 15.90sec.
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ARE, Sweden  - Patrick Staudacher of Italy won the men's super-G at the Alpine skiing world championships on Tuesday in a time of one minute 14.30 seconds, according to provisional results.
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VAL GARDENA, Italy  - Steve Nyman collected his first Alpine ski World Cup race victory on Saturday, upstaging compatriot Bode Miller in the Val Gardena downhill.