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France upsets Switzerland in the first event of the 2008 Mountain Bike World Championships.

France’s four-person squad of Jean-Christoph Peraud, Arnaud Jouffroy, Laurence Leboucher and Alexis Vuillermoz stormed to a convincing win in the first event of the 2008 UCI mountain bike world championships, the team relay. The French led from start to finish, and stomped pre-race favorites Switzerland by more than two minutes. “It was very challenging at the start because [the Swiss] were favored to win,” Peraud said with the aid of a translator. [nid:77862]

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NBC invests in WCSN to create UniversalSports.com sports video site and a new TV channel.

NBC Sports is investing in World Championship Sports Network, an online sports video provider that will be renamed UniversalSports.com. The companies also will launch a new television network called Universal Sports. “Universal Sports will provide a terrific year-round home to almost all Olympic sports and the athletes who give our viewers such compelling stories,” said Dick Ebersol, the chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics.

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Nathan O’Neill will complete a 15-month suspension.

Australian cyclist Nathan O'Neill has been banned from competition for 15 months for a doping violation, officials said Tuesday. The Commonwealth Games gold medallist and eight-time Australian time trial champion tested positive for the stimulant Phentermine after winning the Tour of Elk Grove in Illinois last August. He was racing for the Health Net squad at the time.

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Alberto Contador says he’s focusing on the Beijing Olympics

Spain's recently-crowned Tour of Italy champion Alberto Contador has said he wants to compete in the Beijing Olympics. "The next objective is the Olympic Games," he told Spanish public television late Monday. Contador said he wants to take part in the road race and the time trial in August, although he is "more mentally prepared for the time trial." "But the two events are very hard and it remains to be seen how I will perform," he said. "To be 100 percent, you must arrive in China well beforehand, and I don't know what the training conditions will be like."

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Winter Park Mountain Bike Series: Mathers and Freeman win the hillclimb

Michael Mathers (Rocky Mountain Racing) and Judy Freeman (Tough Girl/Contessa) won the opening event of the Winter Park Mountain Bike Series this weekend, a tough hillclimb up a ski resort access road with more than 2,000 feet of climbing and a finish at over 11,000 feet elevation. Mathers won in 33:12, followed by single speeder Walt Wehner (WaltWorks/Fuentes Design) in 33:24 and Tokyo Joe’s rider Brady Kappius at 33:50. It was the first time in series' 16-year history that three riders eclipsed the 34-minute mark.[nid:77853]

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Phinney posts world pursuit mark

American Taylor Phinney, the 2007 world junior time trial champion, set a new world junior pursuit record Monday at the ADT Event Center velodrome in Carson, California. Phinney’s time of 3:16.589 in the 3000-meter individual pursuit broke Australian Michael Ford’s four-year-old record of 3:17.775. It was the first world record set at the ADT Event Center — the same track where Phinney won a pursuit World Cup in January.

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Readers get it DARN straight on Boonen

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Silence-Lotto’s Robbie McEwen wins stage 3 of the Tour du Suisse.

Silence-Lotto's Aussie sprinter Robbie McEwen won Monday's third stage of the tour of Switzerland, outsprinting Rabobank's Oscar Freire and High Road's Gerald Ciolek. "Leif Hoste and Greg Van Avermaet did well for me on the sprint," said McEwen. "It's exactly the tactic that we discussed this morning. "It's one of the first times that I've sprinted with the two of them and it worked well." This win, he said, "was good for confidence ahead of the Tour de France."

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Live Coverage – Stage 3 Tour de Suisse, 2008

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    Good day and welcome to VeloNews.com's Live Coverage of the third stage of the 2008 Tour de Suisse, a 155-kilometer race from Flums to Gossau.

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Time’s Eric Barlevav wins the 35th annual Harlem Classic in a photo finish — then crashes.

[nid:77758][nid:77759][nid:77754][nid:77755] Erik Barlevav of the Time Pro Cycling team scored the biggest win of his young career with a narrow advantage win over Rock Racing's Rahsaan Bahati on Sunday at the Harlem Cycling Classic. Barlevav's final effort was so intense that he lost control of his bicycle and crashed just after the finish line. The first-year professional managed to get up unassisted and take a victory lap with a bouquet of flowers.

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High Road to become Team Columbia

Team High Road will start the Tour de France in a new uniform featuring the U.S.-based team's new title sponsor: Columbia Sportswear Company. High Road Sports, Inc., the team’s owner, announced the deal Monday. The team will don its new kit at the start of the Tour on July 5. “We’re very pleased to welcome Columbia to Team High Road and to cycling,” said Bob Stapleton, High Road’s owner. “This is a positive sign for the sport itself.”

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Live Coverage – Stage 2 Tour de Suisse, 2008

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    to VeloNews.com's Live Coverage of the second stage of the 2008 Tour de Suisse, a mountainous 197-kilometer stage from Langnau im Emmental to Flumserberg.

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