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Tour Tech – More than Extreme

The paint job on Erik Zabel’s Colnago was originally used 25 years ago, but even that classic look can not hide the new form beneath it. Zabel debuted Colnago’s new EPS (Extreme Power Special) frame at this year’s and is the only rider using in the peloton.

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Road Racing

Leipheimer and Armstrong win Cascade

Though not the French version he’d hoped to don this July, Levi Leipheimer (Astana) did appreciate the Oregonian yellow jersey he slipped on Sunday at the close of the Cascade Cycling Classic’s sixth and final stage, the Awbry Butte Circuit Race. Atop the podium alongside BMC riders Jeff Louder in second and South African Darren Lill in third, the two-time Tour of California winner smiled when handed the CCC trophy: “They didn’t even give me a trophy at the Dauphine!”

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Road Training

Reading your blood

We live in an age of amazing technology. So amazing it is, in fact, that it takes much of the guesswork and mystery out of our daily lives, for an ever decreasing cost. Things that we may have never known about ourselves, like the regular status of our blood, can and should become a regular diagnostic routine.

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Road

How Chris Horner is spending July

Photographer Heidi Swift was near the summit of the final climb of Saturday's fifth stage of the Cascade Cycling Classic when a passing race moto driver told her to get her camera ready. [nid:80093] Soon enough, Swift saw a strange sight: Astana rider Chris Horner pounding along, with a rider — and bike — along for the ride. Swift learned later that Horner came across Billy Demong (Team American R.A.D.D./AGEL) about 2km from the summit. Horner, his work helping teammate Levi Leipheimer over, offered Demong a ride.

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Tour de France

Inside the Tour, with John Wilcockson – Hautacam is this Tour’s first major challenge

On a day when race leader Kim Kirchen of Team Columbia admitted he was suffering, and third-placed Stefan Schumacher of Gerolsteiner was dropped on the final climb, Garmin-Chipotle’s Christian Vande Velde rode as strongly as he has ever since the start of this 95th Tour de France — and he moved up to third place on GC. It’s already been a remarkable performance by the Chicago native, whose best previous Tour rides were 25th last year and 24th in 2006 when he was riding as a team player for CSC.

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Tour de France

Mr. Rogers’ Tour – Riccò rides right into questions

Not to minimize Stefan Schumacher’s surprising stage 4 time trial win, but the 2008 Tour de France saw its first truly amazing performance Sunday as Saunier Duval-Scott’s Ricardo Riccò rode away from the best riders in the world to take his second stage win in four days.

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Road

Clarke, Kovac sprint to wins in Louisville NRC crit

Hilton Clarke (Toyota-United Pro) sprinted to victory in the Louisville Metro Police Foundation Criterium on Saturday. The Aussie outkicked Adam Bergman (Texas Roadhouse) to win the 90-minute NRC event, run on an eight-corner course at Waterfront Park. The two had been part of a six-man break — three of them Texas Roadhouse riders — that eventually lapped the field.

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Tour de France

Andrew Hood’s Tour de France Notebook, stage 9

Schleck moving up

Andy Schleck quietly slipped into the best young rider’s white jersey in Sunday’s preview in the Pyrénées. So far, the 22-year-old Luxembourger has been riding quietly under the radar. That could change in dramatic fashion in Monday’s summit finish to Hautacam. “I’ve never ridden up Hautacam but all these French climbs are new for me. I saw it on TV when Bjarne (Riis) won it in 1996,” Schleck said. “There’s been a lot of talk going on how strong the Schleck brothers are, but we’ll see in the next days how good we can be.”

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Tour de France

Stage 9 – By the numbers

Stage 9, Toulouse to Bagneres-de-Bigorre, 224km

Weather
Mostly cloudy, moderate westerly, northwesterly winds up to 15kph, temperatures in the 60s

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