Slovenian Borut Bozic took the honors on the 176km sixth stage of the Vuelta Espana in Xativa after coming out on top in a sprint finish.
Andre Greipel has taken control of the Vuelta Espana after he snatched victory in a sprint finish at the end of Thursday's 174km fifth stage from Tarragona to Vinaros.
Fabian Cancellara retained his gold jersey at the Vuelta Espana despite being caught up in a huge pile-up involving the leading riders near the end of Tuesday's fourth stage from Venlo to Liege.
Team Columbia's Greg Henderson scored a surprise victory in the third stage of the Tour of Spain on Monday as he won a bunch sprint in Venlo.
German rider Gerald Ciolek won the second stage of the Vuelta Espana on Sunday to move into second place overall behind prologue victor Fabian Cancellara.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara claimed the Vuelta Espana golden jersey on Saturday with victory in the opening time-trial in the Dutch city of Assen.
Belgian Tom Boonen has been granted a shock late reprieve to compete in the Tour de France, which begins in Monaco on Saturday.
Italian Angelo Furlan snatched the second stage of the Dauphine Libere cycling race on Monday when Australian Cadel Evans of the Silence team retained the overall lead.
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.
Local favorite Stijn Devolder retained his Tour of Flanders title under clear blue skies on Sunday, powering away from his rivals for a comfortable victory in the 261.5km spring classic in northern Belgium.
Slovenian Borut Bozic took the honors on the 176km sixth stage of the Vuelta Espana in Xativa after coming out on top in a sprint finish.
Andre Greipel has taken control of the Vuelta Espana after he snatched victory in a sprint finish at the end of Thursday's 174km fifth stage from Tarragona to Vinaros.
Fabian Cancellara retained his gold jersey at the Vuelta Espana despite being caught up in a huge pile-up involving the leading riders near the end of Tuesday's fourth stage from Venlo to Liege.
Team Columbia's Greg Henderson scored a surprise victory in the third stage of the Tour of Spain on Monday as he won a bunch sprint in Venlo.
German rider Gerald Ciolek won the second stage of the Vuelta Espana on Sunday to move into second place overall behind prologue victor Fabian Cancellara.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara claimed the Vuelta Espana golden jersey on Saturday with victory in the opening time-trial in the Dutch city of Assen.
Belgian Tom Boonen has been granted a shock late reprieve to compete in the Tour de France, which begins in Monaco on Saturday.
Italian Angelo Furlan snatched the second stage of the Dauphine Libere cycling race on Monday when Australian Cadel Evans of the Silence team retained the overall lead.
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.
Local favorite Stijn Devolder retained his Tour of Flanders title under clear blue skies on Sunday, powering away from his rivals for a comfortable victory in the 261.5km spring classic in northern Belgium.
Britain's Mark Cavendish claimed his second straight stage win in the Tour of California on Thursday as Lance Armstrong remained in contention for overall victory as he continues his comeback to professional cycling.
Briton Mark Cavendish underlined his reputation as the fastest finisher in world cycling with an impressive victory on stage four of the Tour of California.
Britain's Mark Cavendish claimed his second stage win in the Tour of Qatar as Belgium's Tom Boonen clinched overall victory on Friday.
Belgian cyclist Frederiek Nolf was found dead in his hotel room in Doha hours before he was scheduled to compete in Thursday's fifth and penultimate stage of the Tour of Qatar.
Sprint king Mark Cavendish laid down a marker for the 2009 season with a blistering burst to win the fourth stage of the Tour of Qatar on Wednesday.
Belgian cycling star Tom Boonen had double cause for celebration after winning the third stage of the Tour of Qatar on Tuesday.
This week's world cycling championships in Varese, Italy lost one of its main attractions when time trial king Fabian Cancellara pulled out on the eve of the event.
Spain's Oscar Freire of Rabobank won out in a battle of former world champions as he edged Belgian Tom Boonen to win the 11th stage of the Tour of Spain on Wednesday.
Former world cycling champion Tom Boonen will not be allowed to compete in this year's Tour de France following his positive drugs test.
High Road rider Mark Cavendish has won the 207km Grand Prix de l'Escaut in Belgium for a second successive year after out-sprinting Tom Boonen and Robbie McEwen in a dramatic finish on Wednesday.
Tom Boonen duly wrapped up overall victory in the Tour of Qatar by winning the sixth and final stage on Friday.
Belgium's Tom Boonen retained the overall leader's yellow jersey in the Tour of Qatar after finishing third in Thursday's 170-kilometer fifth stage around Al Khor.
Italy's Alberto Loddo denied Tom Boonen a third victory in this year's Tour of Qatar to claim the fourth stage from the Khalifa Stadium to Al Khor.
Belgium's Tom Boonen retained his overall lead after winning the third stage of the Tour of Qatar on Tuesday.
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.
Yes, Tuesday's Stage 3 into Compiegne featured an electrifying finish, with race leader Fabian Cancellara of Team CSC schooling the sprinters, throwing down a vicious acceleration 700 meters from the finish line, then holding off the muscle-bound likes of Erik Zabel, Tom Boonen and Robert Forster. To me, the biggest story of the day was not Cancellara's breathtaking speed at the finish, but the stately, unhurried, club-ride pace set by the peloton in the hours before the thrilling denouement. This was the slowest stage in recent memory. As I will explain later, that's a good thing.
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.
Belgian police raided the homes of cyclists and assistants of the Quick-Step-Innergetic team and found a large quantity of banned doping substances, local media reported on Thursday.
Italian Alessandro Ballan narrowly outgunned Belgian Leif Hoste in a spectacular two-man sprint to take the Tour of Flanders race on Sunday.
Spain's triple world road race champion Oscar Freire clinched overall victory in the Tour of Andalucia when he won the sprint to take the final stage in Antequera on Thursday.
Rookie Greg Van Avermaet of the Predictor-Lotto team sprinted to his first win as a professional as he took the fifth and penultimate stage of the Tour of Qatar on Thursday.
Former world champion Tom Boonen dominated Australian Graeme Brown in a bunch sprint to win an explosive fourth stage of the Tour of Qatar.
Belgian outfit Quick Step shrugged off this week's doping allegations to take the honours in the Tour of Qatar's opening team time trial.
Italy's Paolo Bettini claimed his first world road race title as he denied German veteran Erik Zabel in a dramatic sprint finish in Salzburg on Sunday.
American George Hincapie grabbed the overall lead in the Benelux Tour after winning the stage four time trial around Landgraaf in Belgium on Sunday.
Belgian world champion Tom Boonen won a sprint finish for the third stage of the Tour of Benelux on Saturday ahead of Max Van Heeswijk of the Netherlands and Australian Baden Cooke.
Italy's Manuel Quinziato won stage two of the Benelux Tour from 's Hertogenbosch to Sittard-Geleen on Friday.
World champion Tom Boonen produced his trademark sprint finish to win the first stage of the Benelux tour and assume the leadership of the ProTour event.
Germany's Stefan Schumacher will wear the leader's jersey at the start of the Benelux Tour after winning the time-trial prologue in Den Helder on Wednesday.
World champion Tom Boonen of Belgium pulled out of the Tour de France during the race's first Alpine stage at L'Alpe d'Huez.
Spaniard Oscar Freire sprinted to his second victory in this year's Tour de France when he won the ninth stage over 169.5km from Bordeaux to Dax on Tuesday.
Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen won the sixth stage of the Tour de France on Friday -- his third stage victory in this race -- while Tom Boonen of Belgium kept the overall lead.
Spaniard Oscar Freire deprived Tom Boonen of his first win in this year's Tour de France when he outsprinted the world champion to clinch the fifth stage on Thursday.
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.
American Levi Leipheimer stretched his overall lead in the Dauphine Libere to one minute 48 seconds after finishing fourth behind Spain's Iban Mayo on the penultimate stage of the race.
Germany's Tour de France contender Jan Ullrich is back in training after overcoming a minor knee injury, his T-Mobile team have said.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara has won the Paris-Roubaix classic ahead of Belgian pair Leif Hoste and Peter van Petegem, who were both later disqualified.
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.
World champion Tom Boonen of Belgium won the 90th Tour of Flanders, the second one-day classic of the Pro Tour season.
World champion Tom Boonen will aim to become the first rider in 34 years to win successive Tour of Flanders races on Sunday.
Belgium's world road race champion Tom Boonen outsprinted breakaway companion Alessandro Ballan to win his third Harelbeke Grand Prix one-day race in a row.
Italy's Filippo Pozzato surprised the sprinters with a late burst of speed to win the Milan-San Remo ProTour race on Saturday.
Spain's Joaquin Rodriguez made a brave late attack on the final climb to win the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice race on Friday.
Tom Boonen almost crashed in the closing stages before recovering to snatch his third stage win in the Paris-Nice race on Thursday.
World champion Tom Boonen outclassed his rivals again by charging to his second successive stage win in the Paris-Nice race on Tuesday.
Tom Boonen gave an impressive show of strength in the 193-km first stage of Paris-Nice to win the final sprint and seize the overall lead on Monday.
American Bobby Julich made a great start to his defense of the Paris-Nice title when he won the opening prologue, a 4.8km time trial, in the French capital on Sunday.
World champion Tom Boonen has won the Tour of Qatar, taking the fifth and final stage of the race in three hours, 36 minutes and 48 seconds.
World champion Tom Boonen of Belgium completed a stage hat-trick at the Tour of Qatar on Wednedsday.
Italy's Danilo Di Luca clinched cycling's first Pro Tour title after finishing fourth behind Olympic champion and compatriot Paolo Bettini in the Zurich Championship on Sunday.
Belgium's Tom Boonen unleashed a devastating late sprint to claim cycling's world road race championship in Madrid on Sunday.
Alessandro Petacchi's build-up to the world championships got off to a fine start when he won stage three of the Tour of Spain from Cordoba to Puertollano.
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.
Australia's Robbie McEwen levelled the score with Belgian rival Tom Boonen by claiming his second stage victory in this year's Tour de France.
Robbie McEwen outsprinted Belgian Tom Boonen to win the Tour de France's fifth stage, with Lance Armstrong retaining the yellow jersey.
Belgian Tom Boonen scored his second successive win in the 2005 Tour de France when he again proved strongest in a mass sprint at the end of Monday's third stage.
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.
Italian Danilo Di Luca beat Luxembourg's Kim Kirchen to win the Fleche Wallonne classic in Huy, Belgium, and take the lead in the ProTour standings.
Belgian sprinter Tom Boonen coasted to victory in the E3 Grand Prix one-day race, a warm-up for next weekend's Tour of Flanders, the fourth race in the 27-leg Pro Tour series.
Spaniard Vicente Reynes won the third stage of the Paris to Nice cycle race with Belgium's Tom Boonen retaining the overall lead.
The third stage of the Paris-Nice cycle race has been shortened and the finish line moved because of bad weather.
Lance Armstrong created Tour de France history with his sixth consecutive victory as the 2004 edition finished with the customary sprint finish on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Belgium's Tom Boonen won the 196-km sixth stage of the Tour de France, which was marred by a crash involving two thirds of the pack one kilometre before the finish in Angers.
France's Sebastian Hinault of Credit Agricole triumphed in the fourth stage of the Tour of Germany on Thursday
Tom Boonen of Belgium surged ahead in the final sprint down the stretch to win Tuesday's second stage of the Tour of Germany.
Italy's Damiano Cunego claimed the first major victory of his career by winning the Tour of Trentino.
Belgian Johan Museeuw has announced his retirement after finishing 77th in the Grand Prix de l'Escaut near Antwerp.
Belgium's Tom Boonen of the Quick Step team has won the Ghent-Wevelgem classic in a sprint finish.
Dutchman Leon Van Bon has won the 227.5 km third stage of the Paris-Nice race from La Chapelle Saint Ursin to Roanne.
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