US Postal dominate Vuelta opener
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LEON, Spain -- The all-conquering US Postal squad left arch-rival T-Mobile trailing to win the opening team time trial stage of the Tour of Spain (La Vuelta) cycle race on Saturday.
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Russian cyclist Denis Menchov has won the fifth stage of the Tour of Spain and US Postal service rider Manuel Beltran of Spain has taken the overall lead.
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Leonardo Piepoli of Italy won the mountainous ninth stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Sunday while Floyd Landis of the United States kept the overall lead.
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World No. 1 and top seed Roger Federer won his first-round match Tuesday in the Thailand Open in Bangkok. Defending champion Taylor Dent of the United States also won, scoring
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Ernie Els held off some early charges under blustery conditions yesterday and shot a 4-under-par 68 to finish where he started -- with a two-stroke lead at the American Express Championship at Thomastown, Ireland, and in great shape to win the World Golf Championship for the first time. Els bounced back from a bogey at No. 9 -- his only ...
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Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez, a 24-year-old Colombian, became the second Tour de France rookie to win a stage in in three days of racing, winning the difficult mountain route by 38 seconds.
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Now for the hard part. Having made it through fast and dangerous racing during the opening flat stages of the Tour de France, riders veer Wednesday into the Pyrenees for their first encounter with the high mountains.
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Julien Clement of Switzerland shot a 7-under 64 Thursday to take the first-round lead at the Madrid Open.
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Denis Menchov of Russia moved closer to his second Vuelta a EspaÃ±a title in three years, and Samuel SÃ¡nchez of Spain won the penultimate stage yesterday. Menchov finished second, 12 seconds behind SÃ¡nchez. Menchov, who rides for Rabobank, stretched his lead over Team CSCâs Carlos Sastre to 3:31 with an overall time of 78:21.40. Todayâs final stage is 64.7 miles from Rivas Vaciamadrid to Madrid.
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The United States proved there is more to US cycling than Lance Armstrong on Wednesday and Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel of the Netherlands became the most successful woman in Olympic cycling history.
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Eduardo Romero shot a six-under-par 66 to grab the lead during the rain-delayed first round of the United States Senior Open.
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Russian Denis Menchov won the fifth uphill stage of the Tour of Spain and Manuel Beltran of the US Postal Service snatched the race leader&#39;s yellow jersey from teammate Benoit Joachim.
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ALMUSAFES, Spain  - Olympic champion Tyler  Hamilton won the eighth stage of the Tour of Spain Saturday, a  24.9-mile individual time trial. Fellow American Floyd Landis  regained the overall lead.
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Italian cyclist Francesco Casagrande (Lampre) and Spaniard Carlos RomÃ¡n Golbano (Costa de AlmerÃ­a-Paternina) have been declared unfit to start the Vuelta a EspaÃ±a, after blood tests on Wednesday evening revealed that they each had exceeded the
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Australian Robbie McEwen dominated a bunch sprint to win the first stage of the Tour de France held over 203km from London to here on Sunday.
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MARSEILLE, France  - Cedric Vasseur clinched the host country's first win in this year's Tour de France with victory on the 229.5-km 10th stage on Wednesday.
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Cedric Vasseur became the first French rider to win this year at the Tour de France, and Michael Rasmussen of Denmark kept the overall lead in the 10th stage yesterday.