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Mark Cavendish wins again at Tour de France; Kirchen still in yellow - 45 minutes ago
TOULOUSE, France — Mark Cavendish of Britain won a second stage of the Tour de France on Saturday, using his superior speed to cut through the field and ...
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In Stage Three of the Tour de France, Will Frischkorn, came close ...SI.com - 10 hours agoSuch is the fate, it seems, of all Tour de France breakaway riders. The escapees are allowed to range miles ahead of the main bunch, before the directors in

Evans happy with lead in Tour de France - 1 hour ago
'So far so good' - Australian Cadel Evans is in a good position after four stages of the Tour de France. [AFP] Australian cyclist Cadel Evans has opened up

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By Alasdair Fotheringham On Saturday, for the first time in over 40 years, the Tour de France eliminated the usual opening prologue. ..."

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Sport Feed Article | Sport |: "SION, Switzerland, May 2 (Reuters) - Andreas Kloeden, done out of the top two stage races this season, snatched the lead in the Tour de Romandie on Friday with victory in the third-stage individual time trial.
Twice a Tour de France runner-up, in 2004 and 2006, the German will not have the chance of going for victory this year in the world's biggest race after his Astana team was not invited because of its past doping record.
As a result, the Tour de Romandie became a major objective for the Berliner, whose team have also been declined a place in the Giro d'Italia although they will take part in the Tour of Spain."

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"Lance Armstrong ­ at right with George Hincapie during this year's Tour de France ­ said the decision to disband the cycling team he co-owns 'really simplified my schedule.'"

Feud could keep top riders from Beijing Olympics

"A squabble for control of the sport of cycling is threatening to spill over into the Olympics, forcing riders to choose between the Tour de France and the Beijing Games.
UCI, the international cycling federation, and the Amaury Sports Organization (ASO) — organizer of the Tour de France and most of Europe's top road races — have been battling for several years over who can determine which teams get into the most prestigious and profitable events.

ASO says UCI is trying to control races that have been historically independent, while UCI says the ASO is undermining the Olympics-based world sports federation structure.

Sunday's start of the ASO's Paris-Nice stage race has become a line drawn in the sand: Pro teams that choose to start that race Lance camper, America's favorite truck camper manufacturer face the possibility UCI will ban their riders from the 2008 Olympics and world championships and receive six-month suspensions and a fine of almost $10,000. The cycling federation also has said entire teams could be banished from its major league UCI Pro Tour.

ASO says invited teams that don't race will be barred from July's Tour de France, the sport's biggest race and a huge magnet for sponsorship dollars."

Tour de California Winner

"American Levi Leipheimer successfully defended his Tour of California title on Sunday, winning the eight-day, 1,069-kilometre race by 49 seconds.
Leipheimer, who held the race lead for the final five days, finished 22nd in the main field on the final stage and claimed the overall title ahead of Briton David Millar.
Christian Vande Velde of the U.S. was third overall in the third edition of the race, trailing Leipheimer by one minute, eight seconds.
Compatriot George Hincapie a Tour de France stage winner and a team mate of Lance Armstrong in each of his seven titles in France, claimed the rainy 150.2-kilometre final stage in three hours, 50 minutes, 57 seconds.
Australian Rory Sutherland was second in the stage, with American Jason McCartney third, both in the same time as Hincapie.
A field of 132 began the race but illness, five rainy and windy stage and an arduous seven-hour fourth stage depleted the field and left only 77 finishers.
Leipheimer, who won the 19th stage of last year's Tour de France, placed sixth in the inaugural Tour of California in 2006. He won by 21 seconds over Jens Voigt of Germany last year.
Leipheimer assumed the race lead with his second place in the road race third stage on Wednesday. He built his margin to his eventual winning advantage with a dominating individual time trial win in the fifth stage in Solvang."

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Continued doping scandals have some cycling sponsors backpedaling

"BRUSSELS, Belgium: Few big-time bankers get as excited by cycling as Piet van Schijndel. Then again, he has millions of dollars in sponsorship riding on races such as the Tour de France.

Perhaps Van Schijndel's best moment came one hot July afternoon during this past year's Tour when Michael Rasmussen zipped up his yellow jersey and crossed the finish of the 16th stage, arms outstretched, with "Rabobank" emblazoned on his chest.

The Dane had won the Tour's toughest Pyrenees stage for Rabobank — one of the biggest banks in the Netherlands — and appeared to have a lock on the title.

For any sponsor, this was gold dust. But this time, it turned out to be fool's gold.

"I saw him win the stage on the Aubisque mountain at 5 p.m., then at 8 p.m., I got this call," said Van Schijndel, an executive board member of Rabobank."

Landis Blood test to be city DUI gauge by 2010 - guilty

"In a final effort to clear his name and regain the 2006 Tour de France title that was stripped from him last month because of a doping violation, Floyd Landis filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland this week.

The appeal, filed Monday, is Landis' last chance to overturn the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's charge that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the tour.

Last month, an arbitration panel upheld that charge and ruled, 2-1, that Landis had used synthetic testosterone to win a grueling mountain stage of the tour. Landis, who turns 32 on Sunday, was subsequently stripped of the tour title and barred from the sport for two years, retroactive to Jan. 30, 2007.

Now the Court of Arbitration for Sport will take one last look at the evidence in the case. Its decision will be final, with no possibility for an appeal."

The Canadian Press: Case closed, now arbitrators to decide on Tour de France champion Floyd Landis? fate

"Arbitrators in the Floyd Landis doping hearing met for the final time this week and declared the hearing officially closed, meaning a decision on the 2006 Tour de France winner's fate must come in by Sept. 22. Landis testified in May as part of a two-week public arbitration hearing to determine whether his positive doping test from last year's Tour should be upheld. He tested positive for synthetic testosterone after Stage 17 of the race. Over the past three months, arbitrators have been sorting through the evidence and collecting additional information from the parties. They met Wednesday and are writing their final decision."