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Brits dominate opening track tests

Scotland's Chris Hoy anchored Britain to an historic victory in the coveted Olympic team sprint final in Beijing Friday to leave world champions France with the silver. Hoy, who is aiming for a further two gold medals in the five-day, ten final race anchored the team home after stunning rides from England's Jamie Staff and Jason Kenny in a time of 43.128. France took the silver in 43.551 with defending champions Germany beating Australia to the bronze medal.

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McDonough optimistic ahead of track

“Lean and mean” is the mantra at USA Cycling ahead of the debut of five days of track cycling competition Friday at the Laoshan Velodrome. The eight-athlete team hits the boards in nine events with realistic hopes of striking gold on the women’s side and ambitions of playing the spoiler on the men’s side. “Overall, we’re saying, let’s hold the bar very high, but let’s aim for something that’s realistic,” said USA Cycling team leader Pat McDonough before the team’s final training session Thursday at the velodrome.

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Garmin’s Caldwell takes Tour of Utah stage, race lead

The top stage racers in the country wasted no time Thursday in tearing apart the general classification at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah. A select group of 13 riders emerged during the day’s third and final mountain pass as the most likely contenders for overall victory, while Garmin-Chipotle’s 24-year-old Blake Caldwell took his second career Tour of Utah stage win. For the second consecutive day, the stage winner came out of a small breakaway, and for the second consecutive day the winner wore a Garmin-Chipotle jersey, which was then traded for yellow atop the podium.

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Trackies put ‘MaskGate’ behind them

Call it MaskGate.

Four world-class track cyclists land in one of the most polluted cities in the world and want nothing more than to protect the one organ – their lungs – that most determines whether or not they’ll win an Olympic medal.

They don masks, given to them by their Olympic governing body, and an international scandal erupts.

Sarah Hammer, Jennie Reed, Michael Friedman and Bobby Lea unintentionally created a furor on August 5 when they walked into Beijing’s international airport wearing USOC-issued masks to cover their nose and mouths.

What a way to

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Facts and figures from Beijing

Here are some interesting factoids and other non-essential, but mildly entertaining, factlets from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games data base: DOUBLE TIME: Fabian Cancellara (Swi) did more than win gold in the time trial and bronze in the road race. “Spartacus” became only the fifth rider to win a medal in both road events in the same Olympic Games.

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Inside Cycling, with John Wilcockson – The pros finally embrace Olympic cycling

World Anti Doping Agency president John Fahey said earlier this week that the Olympic movement should consider banishing cycling and weight lifting from the Games because they are sports that have doping problems. UCI president Pat McQuaid immediately shot back that no other sport is doing as much as cycling to fight the cheats, and that several major sports have been dragging their heels on anti-doping issues for years.

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Gerdemann wraps up Tour de l’Ain

German rider Linus Gerdemann (Team Columbia) won the Tour de l'Ain cycling race after the fourth and final stage on Wednesday. Gerdemann clocked 14:14:03 over the four stages to finish 12 seconds ahead of French rider David Moncoutie of Cofidis, with AG2R rider Stephane Goubert of France third at 36 seconds. The 25-year-old German, holder of the yellow jersey after his victory on Tuesday, and his Columbia teammates were dominant on the hilly Bugey stage.

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After a year off, the Tour of Utah returns Wednesday

It’s not often that a domestic event strives for UCI stage-race designation, falls short on sponsorship, is cancelled and then returns the following year as the country’s highest-elevation stage race. But that’s exactly what the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah has gone through in recent years. After going national in 2006, the Tour of Utah was postponed last year when race owners determined the event was not ready due to fiscal troubles.

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Van Avermaet wins at Tour de l’Ain

Belgian Greg Van Avermaet (Silence Lotto) team won the second stage of the Tour de l'Ain on Monday. The 23-year-old edged ahead of Czech Frantisek Rabon and Maxime Bouet of France in a sprint to the line after the 169km stage from Trevoux to Hauteville. Sunday's stage winner Floris Goesinnen of the Netherlands finished in 18th and slipped to second in the overall standings, now tied with Van Avermat on time.

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Goesinnen wins Tour de l’Ain kickoff

Floris Goesinnen (Skil Shimano) sprinted to victory in the first stage of the Tour de l'Ain in eastern France on Sunday. The Dutchman took the leader's yellow jersey after crossing ahead of Paul Moucheraud (Roubaix Lille Metropole) with the peloton led by Belgian Greg Van Avermaet (Silence-Lotto) arriving close behind. A breakaway group gained a 10-minute lead ahead of the pack early in the 149km stage from Lagnieu to Montreal-la-Cluse but the gap narrowed as the course became more mountainous.

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Cooke weathers storm to take Olympic gold

Great Britain’s Nicole Cooke didn’t raise her arms in glory after uncorking a winning sprint at the end of Sunday’s rain soaked Olympic road race. The blonde Welshwoman, 25, instead let fly with an ear piercing shriek that echoed throughout the Juyongguan Pass area of China’s Great Wall.

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Miller scores elite women’s road title

Tibco’s Brooke Miller scored a big win at the 2008 USA Cycling National Road Championships on Friday, outsprinting Tina Pic (Colavita-Sutter Home) and Katharine Carroll (Aaron's) at the end of 123-kilometer race in Irvine, California. Miller was national collegiate road champion in 2005, but the win on Friday marked her first elite title.

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Sanchez takes Olympic gold in Beijing

On a sweltering day that saw many riders succumb to Beijing’s heat and humidity, Samuel Sanchez timed a last-minute acceleration to perfection to win the 2008 Olympic men’s road race. The Spanish climber crossed the finish line beneath China’s Great Wall just inches ahead of Italian Davide Rebellin. Swiss world time-trial champ Fabian Cancellara, who was riding without any teammates, collected the bronze.

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Armstrong says Olympic road racing would benefit from bigger teams

American Kristin Armstrong is making only her second appearance at the Olympic Games, but she already has a few ideas about how to improve things — particularly when it comes to the women’s road race. Although road cycling is a team sport, the Olympic format makes it more of an individual event, says the 35-year-old from Boise, Idaho.

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Williams, Rodriguez win U23 crit crowns at USA Cycling nationals

Justin Williams (Rock Racing) and Beatriz Rodriguez (SC Velo) won their respective under-23 criteriums on Friday as the USA Cycling junior, U23, and elite road national championships continued in Anaheim, California. The criterium championships were held on a fast, flat 1.7km course in Angels Stadium. In the 35-lap U23 men’s race, the 19-year-old Williams threw his bike at the line in a massive bunch sprint to barely squeak past second-placed Jake Keough (Kelly Benefit Strategies-Medifast) with Daniel Holloway (VMG-Felt) third.

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Olympic Cycling TV/Online Schedule

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Longo hopes for medal in seventh Games appearance

France's Jeannie Longo will write another considerable chapter in cycling's history books this Sunday when she becomes only the third woman to compete in seven Olympic Games. Longo, the 1996 Olympic champion, who has 13 world titles, is set to follow in the footsteps of Jamaican track star Merlene Ottey and Swedish fencer Kerstin Palm. Come the 126.4km women's road race on Sunday, the wily Longo will want to be treated as just another rider with hopes of stepping on to the Olympic podium.

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McCartney riding Olympic wave

Things will be very different for Jason McCartney as he lines up Saturday in what will be his second crack at an Olympic medal. Four years ago, after winning the qualifying race to make the U.S. Olympic team for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, the Iowan was in sweltering Athens as a wide-eyed domestic pro lining up against the likes of Paolo Bettini. Flash forward four years and McCartney, now 34, will be breaking a sweat again in the heat, humidity and smog of Beijing. The thrill of being at the Olympics is still there, but long gone is the sense that he doesn’t belong.

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Look recalls some Keo pedals

Bicycle Pedals Recalled by Look Cycle; Pedals Can Break Causing Cyclists to Fall WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: KéO Bicycle Pedals Units: About 80,000 (40,000 pairs) Distributor: Look Cycle USA, of San Jose, Calif. Hazard: The steel axle inside the pedal can break, posing a fall hazard to cyclists.

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The 2008 Olympics – The Battle of Beijing

The stage profile for the 245.4km Great Wall Olympic road course — which the elite men face on Saturday — looks like a comb placed on its end with seven sharp teeth pointing straight up. The section of the comb’s handle represents the flat 78.8 km tour of Beijing’s landmarks, including the Temple of Heaven, the Great Hall of the People, Tiananmen Square and the National Stadium.

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Giddeon Massie

Age: 26 (Zionhill, Pennsylvania)

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Team Sprint

PRIOR OLYMPICS

2004 An established track talent, Massie has earned the gold medal in the keirin at the 2003 Pan American Games, an event at which he also earned a silver in the sprint competition. Massie also acts as a spokesman for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in its “My Health. My Sport. My Victory. I Compete Clean” campaign.

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Adam Duvendeck

Age: 26 (Santa Barbara, California)

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Team Sprint

PRIOR OLYMPICS

2004 A former kilometer racer, Duvendeck has made the transition to team sprint. A one-time student of 1984 Olympian Rory O'Reilly, Duvendeck has earned elite national titles in the keirin, team sprint, kilometer and matched sprint. He will team up with Giddeon Massie and Michael Blatchford in the team sprint, an event in which they hold the U.S. record.

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Jennie Reed

Age: 30 (Kirkland, Wash.)

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Match Sprint

PRIOR OLYMPICS

2004 Reed is one of the most successful sprinters Since winning her first gold medal in national competition in 1998, Reed has earned 12 more national titles, the World Cup title in 2004 and three medals at world championship events. She has also dabbled in endurance track events, recently as a part of the winning pursuit team at the 2007 national championships.

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Michael Blatchford

Age: 22 (Cypress, California)

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Team Sprint, Match Sprint

PRIOR OLYMPICS

None Blatchford is the youngest sprinter on the U.S. team, but brings a solid record in international competition to Beijing. Blatchford earned a bronze medal in the sprint at the 2006 world championships and gold in the same event at the 2007 Pan American Championships. Along with Olympic teammates Giddeon Massie and Adam Duvendeck, Blatchford holds the U.S. national record in the team sprint.

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Brits brimming with confidence in Beijing

British cycling chief Dave Brailsford is confident his Olympic squad will blaze a trail to the podium in Beijing by medaling in 11 of the sport's 18 finals. The Manchester-based Performance Director of British track cycling conceded, however, they could leave some medal opportunities for their rivals. A total of 54 medals will be on offer from the 18 finals in cycling's four disciplines of road cycling, track, mountain bike and BMX in Beijing, and 30 of those medals will be won at the Laoshan velodrome.

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National Sports Center Velodrome to host Midwest Sprint Challenge

Minnesota’s National Sports Center Velodrome To Host Midwest Sprint Challenge, August 8-9 Men and women speedsters to compete for $2000 purse Blaine, MN (July 22, 2008) – The National Sports Center Velodrome announced today that it will host the 2008 Midwest Sprint Challenge, August 8-9 – showcasing sprint races for fans in Minnesota.

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2008 Olympics – Road race will be a war of attrition

Racing in hot, humid conditions, worsened by pollution levels, is not the only thing worrying Spain's big favorite for the Olympic cycling road race this Saturday. Alejandro Valverde comes into the 248.5km race, said to be one of the toughest ever at an Olympics, fresh from the Tour de France where he finished ninth overall and won the opening stage. As one of the most feared all-rounders in the business, Valverde could be the man to succeed formidable Italian Paolo Bettini, the world champion for the past two years.

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Eatough, Sawicki win 24-hour solo championships

Trek/VW rider Chris Eatough came from behind to win the 24 Hours of 9-Mile solo national championships in Wausau, Wisconsin, Saturday. Pua Sawicki defended her 2007 title with 18 laps, which she completed in 24 hours and 3 minutes. [nid:81316] In the men’s race, Josh Tostada led the race early on, riding 15-mile laps in under an hour. “[Tostada] really put me into difficulty, he and I were very evenly matched,” Eatough said. “But my pit crew has our routine dialed, and the new bike let me race even faster.”

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LPR Brakes team to ride the Tour of Britain

LPR Brakes to make Tour of Britain debut in 2008 Di Luca and Petacchi to lead Italian squad’s assault on this year’s Tour of Britain The Tour of Britain organisers are pleased to announce the identity of the 16th team who will ride the 2008 race, Italian squad LPR Brakes – Ballan, led by Alessandro Petacchi and Danilo Di Luca. Petacchi is one of the greatest sprinters ever, having won over 150 races in his career, while Di Luca will become the first winner of a Grand Tour to ride The Tour of Britain, following his win in the Giro d’Italia in 2007.

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Horner out for Vuelta

Astana’s Chris Horner will miss the Vuelta a España later this month after suffering a broken collarbone in a crash at the Tour of Elk Grove on Saturday. Horner broke his left clavicle in a crash in the final sprint of the second stage of the Illinois stage race and, after crossing the finish line, was transported to a nearby hospital where the break was diagnosed.

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USA Crits – Borrajo, Carroll win in Charlotte

Colavita-Sutter Home’s Alejandro Borrajo and Katherine Carroll (Aaron’s) claimed victory at the fifth annual Presbyterian Hospital Invitational Criterium in Charlotte, North Carolina, the eighth event in the 2008 USA CRITS Series. With the help of teammate Kyle Wamsley, Borrajo beat a small, select group of elite criterium riders that escaped the main field just over an hour into the race. The Argentine sprinter added another win to his already successful season by outracing last year's winner, Frank Pipp (Health Net), and Emile Abraham (Team Type 1).

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2008 Olympics – Valverde has to be a favorite in Beijing

A combination of timing, tactics and sheer leg power on a climb that will be raced seven times during the men's Olympic road race is a must for any cyclist aiming for gold in Beijing. But the climbers in the peloton will do better if they can also close out the day with a formidable sprint. The men's Olympic road race will finish near the Great Wall on August 9 and Spaniard Alejandro Valverde will be hoping to live up to his childhood nickname of El Imbatido (the unbeaten one) when he challenges Italy's formidable reigning champion Paolo Bettini.

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Burnaby’s Six-day race bigger than ever

The 4th Six Days of Burnaby -- Bigger and Better than Ever! Burnaby, BC _ The Burnaby Velodrome continues to lead the charge to bring professional Six Day racing back to North America. This year's Six Day will take place December 29 through January 3 and will feature more prizes, bigger crowds, and a larger cash purse. The event will showcase separate Pro and Amateur fields, plus will provide high-octane entertainment with an Invitational Sprint & Keirin Tournament!

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Seehafer outsprints High Road’s Kim Anderson for the win

American Kori Seehafer of the Menikini-Selle Italia Master team won Wednesday UCI Women's World Cup event in Vargarda, Sweden. Seehafer, a Wisconsin native who lives in Colorado, won the 132-kilometer event in a sprint against fellow American Kim Anderson (High Road). The two finished 1:10 ahead of third placed Charlotte Becker. (Results) The win moved Seehafer, who did not have any prior women's World Cup points, into 9th place in the rankings: Women's World Cup road rankings and points following Vargarda road race: 1. Judith Arndt, 260

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McEwen to leave Silence-Lotto

Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen has confirmed that he plans to leave Silence-Lotto for a new team next season. McEwen has reportedly signed with Tinkoff Credit Systems squad, but in an interview with The Australian newspaper, the Aussie sprinter declined to confirm that. “I've signed with a new team for next year but I'll wait until later in the year to make any announcements about what I'm doing and let the new team announce it,” McEwen told the paper. “Whatever team it is, I'll let them announce it.”

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National champ Beytagh blitzing DH scene — and with a day job, too

Geritt Beytagh thought he had the legs and lungs to win the 2008 USA Cycling national downhill championships after his qualifying run. He qualified first despite breaking his chain with one-third of the punishing course remaining. So when the 24-year-old crossed the line in the finals, looked up and saw he’d evicted ’05 champ Cody Warren from the hot seat by three seconds, Beytagh confirmed his suspicions: He’s stronger and faster than ever. Why?

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UCI statement re: BBC bribery story

PRESS RELEASE Date: 28 juillet / July 2008 Statement from Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) The UCI would like to comment on a recent BBC report regarding the UCI and the Japanese organisers of keirin racing. UCI looked into this matter when questions were first raised by the BBC in early June. A thorough examination of our records and interviews with those involved has turned up no evidence that this was anything other than a straightforward, completely proper arrangement to promote track cycling.

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BBC alleges UCI took bribes to support keirin’s Olympic bid

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has been put under the spotlight by a report that claims the world cycling body was paid to help get track cycling's keirin event on the Olympic program in 1996. The BBC reported on its Web site that it possesses documents which "reveal a series of substantial payments to the UCI, which began just two months after the keirin was accepted into the Olympics in December 1996.” The report, which was denied by a top Japanese official, claims that $3 million was "paid by organizers of a Japanese cycling event to the UCI — the world cycling body.”

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Prémont, Absalon dominate Mont Ste Anne mountain bike world cup

With a deafening crowd of Quebecers cheering and waving plastic hand clappers in her honor, Marie-Héléne Prémont stepped off her Rocky Mountain hardtail and raised the rig in victory at Mont-Ste-Anne resort. The 31-year-old, who hails from nearby Chateau-Richter, had just taken her third World Cup title at Mont-Ste-Anne in four years.[nid:81032] “It is amazing, always an amazing feeling to win here,” Prémont said, wiping mud from her face.

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Tour de France

Stage 21 – By the numbers

Stage 21 stats

Stage 21, Étamps to Paris, 143km

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Hot and humid with partly cloudy skies and moderate wind, temperatures in the mid 80s Stage winner
Quick Step’s Gert Steegmans salvaged a disappointing Tour for his Belgian team by winning one of the most prestigious sprints in cycling along the Champs Elysees. Yellow jersey
Race leader Carlos Sastre held his overall lead, with no major change on classification.

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Live Coverage – Stage 21 Tour de France, 2008

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The Bulls team wins the final stage and defends their 2007 TransAlpe title

Defending champions Karl Platt and Stefan Sahm of Team Bulls won the final stage of the TransAlpe 2008 and wrapped up their second consecutive win of the 665-kilometer stage race. On the last stage from Andalo to Riva del Garda, Platt and Sahm underlined why they kept hold on their title with good reason. The team mastered the 61-kilometer stage in 2:30:03, putting their total riding time in the 8-stages at just under 30 hours at 29:59:25.

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Andrew Hood’s Tour de France Notebook, stage 20

Stage winner Stefan Schumacher was more surprised than anyone to be back on the Tour de France podium after claiming victory in Saturday’s time trial. Schumacher’s win in the first time trial at a distance of 29.5km wasn’t a complete surprise because he’s done well in shorter distances, but his 21-second victory ahead of Olympic favorite and two-time world time trial champion Fabian Cancellara wasn’t expected by many.

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Sastre withstands a challenge from Evans to hold the overall lead

CSC-Saxo Bank's Carlos Sastre withstood the challenge from Silence-Lotto's Cadel Evans on Saturday, defending his yellow jersey going into the final stage of the 2008 Tour de France. A surprising Sastre ceded just 29 seconds to Evans over Saturday's 53km time trial and will enter the Tour's finale Sunday with a 1:05 lead over the Aussie, who is on track for his second consecutive runner-up finish in the Tour.

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The Coach(ed) Corner:

The headline says it all. After a seven-day flogging at the BC Bike Race, it’s been R&R time here in the land of the coached. I took a week off after the race and am just now starting to crank it up again.

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Tour de France 2008 Stage 19

Cofidis' Sylvain Chavanel, one of the most aggressive riders in this year's Tour, got the stage win he's been looking for on Friday, outsprinting Jeremy Roy (Francaise des Jeux), his breakaway companion of nearly 85 kilometers to take the win in Montluçon. Race leader Carlos Sastre (CSC) finished in the lead pack to retain his overall lead heading into Saturday's critical final time trial.

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Burghardt’s power meter file, stage 18

It looked like Columbia's Marcus Burghardt put in a huge ride on stage 18, and his SRM power meter data confirms it. Burghardt was super aggressive and obviously wanted the win bad. He was in the initial breakaway, and when that was caught he escaped again wth Feillu. He dropped Feillu on the Col De Parmenie, and caught Barredo on the descent.

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Coach Henderson reports on Taylor Phinney’s bronze medal time trial performance

The past week has been quite a busy one. First, Taylor finished up with the UCI junior track world championships by racing in the points race last Monday. There were two qualifying heats in the afternoon that were used to field the final later on that evening. Taylor went extremely well in the qualifying heat and won a couple of the sprints and also took a lap on the field, winning convincingly. He felt good about the qualifying race and was excited about the final.

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Stage 18 – By the numbers

Stage 18, Bourg-d’Oisans to Saint-Etienne, 196.5km

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Sunny and warm, clear skies, temperatures in the low 80s. Stage winner
On a day destined to see a winner come from a breakaway, Columbia’s German Marcus Burghardt took his first-ever Tour stage win out of a two-man breakaway, ahead of Quick Step’s Spaniard Carlos Barredo.

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Prémont, Kabush defend Canadian titles; Paulissen keeps marathon world crown

Geoff Kabush (Maxxis) and Marie-Hélène Prémont both defended their Canadian national cross-country titles from 2007 during this year’s championships, run June 19 at Mont-Ste-Anne, Québec. Both riders won by slim margins, with Derek Zandstra (3 Rock Racing) and Catherine Pendrel (Luna) taking the runner-up spots. The victory marked the fifth career title for Kabush and the sixth for Prémont. Both will don their national colors at Mont-Ste-Anne’s cross-country World Cup race on July 27.

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Live Coverage – Stage 18 Tour de France, 2008

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Burghardt wins St. Etienne

After spending almost all of the day on the attack, Team Columbia’s Marcus Burghardt won the 18th stage of the Tour de France, beating Quick Step’s Carlos Barredo in a final kilometer chess match that bore more resemblance to a match-sprint on the velodrome than the end of a 196.5 mile road race. The two joined forces early in the day and cooperated until the final ten kilometers. At that point the two could afford to risk the benefits of cooperation as they enjoyed a healthy 4:50 lead over a group of three chasers and nearly 10 minutes on the peloton.

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Stage 16 – By the numbers

Stage 16, Cuneo, Italy, to Jausiers (157km)

Weather: Sunny and warm, clear skies, variable winds blowing up the valleys, creating headwind on both hors catégorie climbs Stage winner: Cyril Dessel (AG2R-La Mondiale) won a downhill sprint out of a four-man breakaway that included Yaroslav Popovych (Silence-Lotto), Sandy Casar (Francaise Des Jeux) and David Arroyo (Caisse d’Epargne).

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Live Coverage – Stage 16 Tour de France, 2008

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Astana’s Chris Horner win Tour de White Rock road race

Chris Horner wrapped up his first trip to BC Superweek by powering away from Matt Shriver and Andrew Pinfold up the final hill to win the Peace Arch News Road Race at the Tour de White Rock on Sunday. Horner led the three-man breakaway with an attack coming out of a hairpin and up a steep climb on the last of 11 laps around a 10-kilometer circuit. Driven by Horner, the trio stayed away for all six laps of the shorter 3.8-kilometer route before he finally created a gap his last trip up the big backside hill.

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Stage 15 – By the numbers

Stage 15, Embrun to Prato Nevoso, Italy, 182km

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Rain at start, partly cloudy in middle part of stage, rain at finish, highs in upper 60s, moderate westerly winds Stage winner
Simon Gerrans (Credit Agricole) won out of a four-man breakaway that included American Danny Pate (Garmin-Chipotle). Gerrans was nearly dropped several times midway up the climb, but grabbed the wheel of Pate and Egoi Martínez (Euskaltel) with 3km to go. Pate went first at 200 meters, but Gerrans came around to grab his first Tour stage victory.

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Live Coverage – Stage 15 Tour de France, 2008

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Frank Schleck takes yellow from Cadel Evans as the GC race tightens

Team CSC-Saxo Bank battered and isolated race leader Cadel Evans in the first Alpine stage Sunday, coming away with the yellow jersey on the shoulders of Frank Schleck as the GC race tightened.[nid:80475] Evans fell to third, one second behind Gerolsteiner's Bernard Kohl and eight seconds behind Schleck. American Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Chipotle) is in fifth at 38 seconds, still very much in the hunt.

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