Cycling: Freire crosses line and then celebrates
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VERONA, Italy Oscar Freire loves to visit Verona and is sorry that his job brings him here only every five years and then for just a few days.
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The craziest Tour de France in memory ended Sunday the same way the last seven had: with an American wearing the yellow jersey, this time with a Landis instead of a Lance.
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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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BRIANCON, France -- 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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Franck Montagny, R24-08, 135 laps, 597 km
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BRIANCON, France  - Juan Mauricio Soler of Colombia won the 159.5-km ninth stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday.
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Tour de France leader Fabian Cancellara has a message for coach Bjarne Riis: Thank you, and wish you were here.
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Spanish cyclist Oscar Freire has won the sixth stage of the Tour of Spain, but US Postal Service team rider Manuel Beltran of Spain remains the overall leader.
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ATHENS (CP) - It was nine years ago that a young volunteer working at a World Cup mountain bike race at Mont Ste-Anne, Que., became swept up in the emotion of the riders.
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France's Julien Absalon wins gold in the men's mountain bike cross-country.
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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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Early yesterday before the mist had burned off, bicyclists strapped on sleek helmets around their ears, safety-pinned numbers on friends&#39; backs and waited.
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Tour de France leader Fabian Cancellara has a message for coach Bjarne Riis: Thank you, and wish you were here. The Swiss rider and his CSC teammates popped open champagne after his opportunistic victory in Tuesday's wind-swept third stage, the longest of the three-week race. Cancellara extended his overall lead as cycling's showcase event left Belgium and returned home to France.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Roxy Cate has just finished a 45-minute cyclocross race: furiously pedaling through mucky turns and along rain-soaked grassy straightaways, running several times up a nearly vertical hill with her bike slung over her shoulder, and leaping with it over wooden barriers.
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A cyclist hoping to become the fastest person to bike around the world enters the final stages of his challenge.
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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.
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Bâ¢Aâ¢R Honda celebrated its 100th race with a podium today as Jenson Button crossed the line in third place in the team&#39;s second home Grand Prix at Suzuka.