Sports Briefing | Cycling: Menchov Wins Spanish Tour
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Denis Menchov won the Vuelta a EspaÃ±a for the second time in three years yesterday in Madrid, beating Carlos Sastre by 3 minutes 31 seconds after 21 stages. âThis is a party,â Menchov said. âThis is much better than the last one. To be able to celebrate with the team is very important.â Menchov was handed the 2005 title after Roberto Heras was stripped of it for testing positive for EPO.
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Factbox on Spanish cyclist Roberto Heras, who won the Tour of Spain for the third time in his career on Sunday. Took up cycling at the age of 13 after his father promised him a bike if he beat him in a game of tennis.
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Roberto Heras of Spain won his second straight Spanish Vuelta, one of cycling&#39;s top races. Heras, who also captured this event in 2000, finished fourth in Sunday&#39;s final leg, an 18-mile time trial in Madrid.
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Munich, Germany - Spain&#39;s Miguel Angel Jimenez won his fourth title on the European tour this season, recording three birdies in a four-hole stretch on the back nine to claim the BMW International Open by two strokes.
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American David Zabriskie emerged as the surprise winner of the Tour of Spain 11th stage on Tuesday while his US Postal teammate and compatriot Floyd Landis retained the overall lead.
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Spain&#39;s Roberto Heras of the Liberty Seguros team won the Tour of Spain for a record-equaling third time when he held off second-placed Santiago Perez in the final stage.
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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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SIERRA NEVADA, SPAIN - A second consecutive stage win for Spaniard Santiago Perez in the Tour of Spain cycling race propelled him into third place overall today.
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German Linus Gerdemann takes the yellow jersey by winning the first mountain stage of this year's the Tour de France.
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Russian Denis Menchov won the fifth uphill stage of the Tour of Spain and Manuel Beltran of the US Postal Service snatched the race leader&#39;s yellow jersey from teammate Benoit Joachim.
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Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan wins the Tour of Spain on Sunday.
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Tour leader Fabian Cancellara takes an an amazing sprint victory in the third stage.
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VALENCIA, Spain -- Italy&#39;s Alessandro Petacchi of the Fassa Bortolo team ran out the comfortable winner of the seventh stage of the Tour of Spain, a 170km ride from Castellon to Valencia.
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Alexandre Vinokourov wins the first individual time-trial of this year's Tour by more than a minute.
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Spaniard Jose Julia broke away with two kilometers to go to win the 16th stage of the Tour of Spain from Olivenza to Caceres on Tuesday.
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Russian cyclist Denis Menchov will target success in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia this year rather than try to defend his crown in the Tour of Spain.
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Linus Gerdemann, riding in his first Tour de France, won the seventh stage today to take the yellow jersey.