British cycling star Mark Cavendish has been forced to withdraw from the Tour of Missouri due to illness.
Britain's Mark Cavendish continued his domination of the Tour of Missouri with a second straight stage victory as he again utilized his famed sprinting speed.
Alberto Contador has been crowned Tour de France champion for the second time in three years, as Mark Cavendish won his sixth stage of this year's race with victory in the 21st and final stage, finishing in the center of Paris.
Mark Cavendish claimed his fifth stage victory on this year's Tour de France as he again proved himself the fastest man in a bunch sprint after the 178 kilometers from Bourgoin-Jallieu to Aubenas.
Alberto Contador destroyed his rivals in the first Alpine stage of the Tour de France, taking over the yellow jersey with an impressive victory in the 207.5km 15th stage from Pontarlier to Verbier.
Lance Armstrong lost key Astana teammate Levi Leipheimer but stayed in third place in the Tour de France as Heinrich Haussler of Germany won the 13th stage run off in appalling conditions on Friday.
Denmark's Nicki Sorensen won the 12th stage of the Tour de France as the Rinaldo Nocentini kept the yellow jersey ahead of Astana teammates Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong.
Mark Cavendish regained the green jersey with another blistering sprint finish to win the 11th stage of the Tour de France in Saint Fargeau on Wednesday.
British cyclist Mark Cavendish claimed his third stage victory in this year's Tour de France to thwart French hopes of securing a win on Bastille Day, their national holiday.
Thor Hushovd led a mass sprint finish win the sixth stage of the Tour de France in wet conditions on Thursday, while overall leader Fabian Cancellara remained a second ahead of comeback king Lance Armstrong.
British cycling star Mark Cavendish has been forced to withdraw from the Tour of Missouri due to illness.
Britain's Mark Cavendish continued his domination of the Tour of Missouri with a second straight stage victory as he again utilized his famed sprinting speed.
Alberto Contador has been crowned Tour de France champion for the second time in three years, as Mark Cavendish won his sixth stage of this year's race with victory in the 21st and final stage, finishing in the center of Paris.
Mark Cavendish claimed his fifth stage victory on this year's Tour de France as he again proved himself the fastest man in a bunch sprint after the 178 kilometers from Bourgoin-Jallieu to Aubenas.
Alberto Contador destroyed his rivals in the first Alpine stage of the Tour de France, taking over the yellow jersey with an impressive victory in the 207.5km 15th stage from Pontarlier to Verbier.
Lance Armstrong lost key Astana teammate Levi Leipheimer but stayed in third place in the Tour de France as Heinrich Haussler of Germany won the 13th stage run off in appalling conditions on Friday.
Denmark's Nicki Sorensen won the 12th stage of the Tour de France as the Rinaldo Nocentini kept the yellow jersey ahead of Astana teammates Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong.
Mark Cavendish regained the green jersey with another blistering sprint finish to win the 11th stage of the Tour de France in Saint Fargeau on Wednesday.
British cyclist Mark Cavendish claimed his third stage victory in this year's Tour de France to thwart French hopes of securing a win on Bastille Day, their national holiday.
Thor Hushovd led a mass sprint finish win the sixth stage of the Tour de France in wet conditions on Thursday, while overall leader Fabian Cancellara remained a second ahead of comeback king Lance Armstrong.
Mark Cavendish has won the third stage of the Tour de France to cement his reputation as the fastest man in cycling, following a devastating spell of riding by his Team Columbia colleagues.
Belgian Tom Boonen has won his third Paris-Roubaix cobbled classic, and his second in succession, with a thrilling victory marred by a motorcycle crash that left 10 people injured, three seriously, on Sunday.
Norway's Thor Hushovd won an incident-packed third stage of the Tour of California with Levi Leipheimer retaining his overall lead despite crashing after clipping the wheel of Astana teammate Lance Armstrong.
Mark Cavendish became the first Briton to win a stage of the Tour de France for five years with a brilliant sprint victory at the end of the fifth stage from Cholet to Chateauroux.
Norwegian Thor Hushovd has won the 164.5km second stage of the Tour de France from Auray to Saint-Brieuc on Sunday.
American George Hincapie sprinted to victory in the second stage of the Dauphine Libere on Tuesday when Thor Hushovd retained the overall lead.
Spain's Alejandro Valverde has won a sprint finish at the end of the first stage of the Dauphine Libere in France on Monday.
Kjell Carlstrom won the third stage of the Paris-Nice race Wednesday, pulling away early and holding off the pack in the mountains.
Belgian rider Gert Steegmans triumphed in a sprint finish after the first stage of the Paris-Nice cycling race was slashed because of bad weather on Monday.
Norwegian cyclist Thor Hushovd won the prologue in the Paris-Nice on Sunday as Europe's first major stage race of the season got underway despite threats of sanctions from the governing body.
A high-speed collision in the final meters could not prevent Belgian Wouter Weylandt from clinching the fourth stage of the Tour of Benelux on Sunday.
South Africa's Robert Hunter claimed his first stage win in the Tour de France and the second for his unheralded Barloworld team as he sprinted to victory in Montpellier.
Friday's flat 200-km Stage 6 through wine country came down to another riotous mass sprint taken, surprisingly, by Tom Boonen, a Belgian of Quickstep-Innergetic who much prefers to be escorted toward the finish with a more orderly lead-out than he was provided. But Boonen ham-and-egged it, Robbie McEwen-style, for his 10th win of the season, his first of this Tour. Say goodbye to the sprinters for a while. On Saturday the boys must get over a serrated colossus called the Col de la Colombiere. Boonen, Thor Hushovd and their ilk will be more concerned with making the time cut than winning the stage.
I know today's stage went to Thor Hushovd, the ripped Norseman whose Christmas-ham-sized quads quivered under the green Lycra of Credit Agricole as he accepted bouquets from the podium girls in Joigny.
Australian Robbie McEwen has been cleared to start the second stage of the Tour de France despite a crash in Sunday's ride from London to Canterbury.
Australian Robbie McEwen shrugged off a mid-race crash to score a stunning victory on the opening stage of the Tour de France in Canterbury on Sunday.
Norway's Thor Hushovd finally clinched a stage win on this year's Tour of Spain on Thursday after taking three second places.
German rider Erik Zabel won the fourth stage of the Vuelta on Tuesday in a sprint finish from Norway's Thor Hushovd who retained the overall lead after crossing the line in second for the third successive day.
Home rider Francisco Jose Ventoso of the Saunier Duval team won the longest stage of this year's Tour of Spain from Cordoba to Almendralejo on Monday as he upstaged the big-name sprinters.
Olympic champion Paolo Bettini warmed up for his world championship bid by beating the big sprinters to victory in the second stage of the Tour of Spain on Sunday.
Italian Paolo Bettini surprised cycling's top sprinters with a late surge to take stage two of the Tour of Spain on Sunday.
American Floyd Landis was crowned Tour de France champion after Sunday's parade on the Champs-Elysees ended in a sprint won by Norway's Thor Hushovd.
Australian Robbie McEwen surged 150 meters from the finish to win the 207km fourth stage of the Tour de France from Huy to Saint-Quentin on Wednesday.
German Matthias Kessler surged from the peloton to win the 216.5km third stage of the Tour de France after favorite Alejandro Valverde crashed out.
Australian Robbie McEwen outsprinted world champion Tom Boonen to win the second stage of the Tour de France over 228.5km from Obernai to Esch-sur-Alzette.
France's Jimmy Casper outsprinted Australia's Robbie McEwen to win the Tour de France's first road stage on Sunday.
Norwegian Thor Hushovd was the surprise winner of the prologue when the Tour de France, shorn of its pre-race favorites, began under a doping cloud on Saturday.
American Levi Leipheimer confirmed his form for next month's Tour de France with overall victory in the Dauphine Libere on Sunday.
Norwegian Thor Hushovd seized the overall lead in the Tour of Catalonia thanks to his stage three victory on Wednesday.
Spaniard Luis Perez earned his first professional victory by taking stage two of the Tour of Catalonia on Tuesday, after a breakaway of more than 100 kilometers.
Thor Hushovd became the first Norwegian to win the Ghent-Wevelgem classic as he pipped Germany's David Kopp and Italian ace Alessandro Petacchi in a sprint finish to the Pro Tour event on Wednesday.
Norway's Thor Hushovd won the 219km fourth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico race on Saturday, outsprinting Alessandro Petacchi of Italy.
Former winner Paolo Bettini of Italy won a sprint finish to claim the first stage of cycling's Tirreno-Adriatico in Tivoli on Wednesday.
Home cyclist Simon Gerrans survived blistering temperatures to edge out last year's winner Luis Leon Sanchez of Spain in the first stage of the Tour Down Under.
Spaniard Roberto Laiseka secured a much-needed victory for his Euskaltel squad on the 11th stage of the Tour of Spain.
Italian Alessandro Petacchi re-asserted his dominance on the bunch sprint finishes at this year's Tour of Spain by claiming his third stage win in Lloret de Mar on Saturday.
Norwegian Thor Hushovd underlined his credentials for next month's world road championships by winning stage five of the Tour of Spain on Wednesday from Alcazar de San Juan to Cuenca.
Robbie McEwen improved on his best ever haul of Tour de France stages by outsprinting the bunch for the third time this year in the streets of Montpellier.
David Moncoutie celebrated Bastille Day by handing the host country its first stage victory in this year's Tour de France on Thursday.
Sprint leader Tom Boonen has pulled out of the Tour de France after crashing in Wednesday's 12th stage and the Belgian's green jersey goes to Norway's Thor Hushovd.
Tom Boonen of Belgium outlasted his sprint rivals to win the second stage of the Tour de France over 181.5 kilometers from Challans to Les Essarts on Sunday.
Spaniard Pedro Horrillo grabbed a surprise lone win with a well-timed attack in the final kilometer of stage three of the Tour of Catalonia.
Australia's Robbie McEwen won a dramatic sprint finish to capture the ninth stage of the Tour de France in Gueret on Tuesday.
Norwegian Thor Hushovd powered to victory in the 168-kilometer eighth stage of the Tour de France from Lamballe after another wet and cold day in the saddle for the riders.
Jean-Patrick Nazon of the French AG2R team won the third stage of the Tour de France after a treacherous 210km ride from Waterloo in Belgium to Wasquehal on Tuesday.
Australia's Robbie McEwen raced away to win the second stage of the Tour de France, a 197-kilometer ride from Charleroi to Namur.
Estonian Jaan Kirsipuu won the first stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish at the end of a 202.5-kilometer ride from Liege to Charleroi.
Veteran sprinter Tom Steels joined the top 10 of active cyclists for career victories when he won the first stage of the Etoile de Besseges in Marseille.
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