Spain&#39;s Freire wins third world cycling title
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Oscar Freire renewed his relationship with Verona by winning the world cycling title here for the second time on a course ranked as one of the toughest challenges in the sport.
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Tom Boonen wins stage 12 of the Tour de France in Castres from green jersey rivals Erik Zabel and Robbie Hunter.
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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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Italian Alessandro Petacchi scooped the bunch sprint to win Sunday&#39;s second stage of the Tour of Spain. German Erik Zabel was second in the 207 k run from Leon to Burgos with Spaniard Oscar Freire finishing third.
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Fernando finishes third in Hungary, and scores the team's sixth podium of the year.
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Australian Troy Bayliss has shown that he can be a force in MotoGP with a third placing in the season-ending race in Valencia, behind world champion Valentino Rossi and fellow Italian Max Biaggi.
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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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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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Alexandre Vinokourov claims victory on the Tour de France's second day in the Pyrenees.
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Spaniard Santiago Perez won the 14th stage of the Spanish cycling tour Saturday, a rare bit of good news for a rider who has struggled in the past two years.
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Australia&#39;s Michael Rogers won the elite-division time trial Wednesday at the road cycling World Championships, defending the title he was awarded earlier this month after 2003 winner David Millar of Britain was stripped of his gold medal for doping.
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Daniele Bennati of Italy won the opening leg of the Tour of Spain, cyclingâs most important race after the Tour de France and the Tour of Italy.Bennati captured two stages of this yearâs Tour de France, including the final dash along the Champs-ÃlysÃ©es. Yesterday, Bennati, a Lampre-Fondital rider, sprinted ahead of the pack to finish the 95-mile course in 3 hours 43 minutes 9 seconds in and around the port city of Vigo.Alessandro Petacchi, a sprint specialist, finished third in the same time, just behind Oscar Freire of Rabobank. The favorites Allan Davis of Discovery Channel and Tom Boonen of Quick Step-Innergetic were fourth and fifth.Alexandre Vinokourov, the winner of last yearâs race, was not among the 189 starters after he tested positive for blood doping at this yearâs Tour de France.
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Oscar Freire made his own hat-trick after winning his third world road championship in Verona last October, joining the exclusive 'three-times club' along with Belgium's Eddy Merckx, Rik Van Steenbergen and ...
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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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France's Julien Absalon wins gold in the men's mountain bike cross-country.
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Australia&#39;s Michael Rogers won the elite-division time trial Wednesday at the road cycling World Championships, defending the title he was awarded earlier this month after
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MORELLA, Spain : Russia&#39;s Denis Menchov won the fifth stage of the Tour of Spain, a 186.5km run between Zaragoza and here. The overall race lead was claimed by Spaniard Manuel Beltran from his US Postal teammate Benoit Joachim.