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March 18, 2008
Cancellara wins Tirreno-Adriatico overall
CSC's Fabian Cancellara held on to win the 43rd edition of the Tirreno-Adriatico following Tuesday's seventh and final stage. Italian Francesco Chicchi of Liquigas won the 176km run around San Benedetto del Tronto. But the 26-year-old Swiss, the current double world time-trial champion, kept hold of the leader's blue jersey and set himself up as one of the hot favorites for Saturday's Milan-San Remo.
March 16, 2008
Rebellin wins Paris-Nice
Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) survived a flurry of attacks to win the 66th edition of Paris-Nice on Sunday after Luis-León Sanchez (Caisse d’Epargne) took the slimmest of victories in the final stage around Nice. The stage, which featured three cat. 1 climbs, was trimmed by 6.5km to 115km due to a landslide on the descent of the cat. 1 La Turbie. A small detour took the peloton to the final climb up Col d’Eze.
March 16, 2008
Paris-Nice riders protest Van Impe test
Riders in the Paris-Nice stage race protested Sunday against a doping test control for Belgian colleague Kevin Van Impe, who was asked for a urine sample just as he was grieving at a crematorium following the death of his new-born son. The protest delayed the start of the final stage of the race as Van Impe's compatriot Philippe Gilbert, a member of the international riders association CPA, took to the rostrum to say that while the riders were not against doping tests they wanted more respect shown. read more
March 15, 2008
Rebellin seizes lead at Paris-Nice
Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) seized the lead in Paris-Nice on Saturday as Sylvain Chavanel (Cofidis) outfought a seven-man breakaway in the final kilometer to win the sixth stage. The 206km stage was another tough one, the longest of the race. It featured seven rated climbs, including the decisive cat. 2 Col du Tanneron with 20km to go. read more
March 14, 2008
Barredo snatches stage 5 at Paris-Nice
Carlos Barredo (Quick Step) leapt away from a disintegrating breakaway to win stage 5 of Paris-Nice on Friday. The 172.5km fifth stage from Althen-des-Paluds to Sisteron, across the heart of Provence, opened with a challenging Cat. 2 in the first 30km and traversed three more Cat. 3s before concluding with an 18km loop around Sisteron. A 17-man break including danger man Barredo, 12th overall at 4:07, formed up and took a substantial lead on the bunch before first Rabobank, then Gerolsteiner queued up at the front and began a furious chase. read more
March 14, 2008
McQuaid to Contador: I’ve got your back
UCI chief pat McQuaid on Friday promised to back reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador should he decide to take legal action over his exclusion from this year's race. The tour's organisers, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), ruled on February 13 that Contador's Astana team would be barred from competing in this year's race as a result of doping scandals over the past two years. But International Cycling Union (UCI) president McQuaid said the decision is unfair. read more
March 13, 2008
Evans rules Ventoux at Paris-Nice
Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) won Thursday’s fourth stage of Paris-Nice, a 176km grind from Montelimar to Mont Ventoux. The course covered four Cat. 3 climbs before tackling Ventoux's "undiscovered" north face — a 17km final Cat. 1 climb finishing at the Mont Serein ski station, about 5km short of the observatory summit featured in the Tour de France. As has been the tradition here this year, the racing got under way early with CSC’s Jens Voigt taking a flyer at the 11km mark, joined by three others — Aleksandr Kuschynski (Liquigas), Bernhard Eisel (High Road) and Dutchman Niki Terpstra of Milram. Read More
March 11, 2008
Steegmans won Tuesday’s second stage of the 66th edition of Paris-Nice
Gert Steegmans (Quick Step) won Tuesday’s second stage of the 66th edition of Paris-Nice, a 201km stage from Nevers to Belleville.
Skil-Shimano’s Thierry Hupond took an early flyer on what proved to be another soggy stage, and the young Frenchman stayed gone until he blew up in spectacular fashion just before the final KoM, the 762m Col de Fut d’Avenas, with some 15km remaining in the stage.
Benat Itntxausti (Saunier Duval) and Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank), who had leapt away from the pack on the ascent, did the honors of reeling the exhausted Frenchman in, shortly before they themselves were reabsorbed by the peloton — and then race leader Thor Hushovd (Crédit Agricole) took a flyer on the descent, quickly taking 15 seconds on the bunch.
Gert Steegmans (Quick Step) launched a pursuit, but it came to naught as the peloton chased in spurts, showing little organization. Then Steegmans, Sylvain Chavanel (Cofidis) and Michael Albasini (Liquigas) bridged up to Hushovd and the race was on with a vengeance with just under 6km to go, the foursome trading pulls just ahead of the ravening bunch, which found it slower going around the road furniture, roundabouts and other obstacles in the final kilometers.
With 1km to go it was clear the winner would come from among the four leaders, who began setting up for their sprint. Chavanel was on the front and clearly didn’t care for it, while race leader Hushovd sat back. As the chase closed in Chavanel found himself forced to lead out after all — and in the end it was Steegmans who came around for an easy win ahead of Hushovd and Chavanel.
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