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05.05.2009 2:16 pm

Will an American win the 100th anniversary Giro d’Italia?

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

It’s been more than 20 years since an American won the Giro d’Italia (Andy Hampsten in 1988), and this, the 100th anniversary of the Giro, is as good a time as any for an American to don the maglia rosa…

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09.09.2008 6:25 pm

Who’s gonna win the Branson time trial?

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Welp, ol’ 10 Speed picked Garmin-Chipotle’s David Zabriskie to win the 18-mile uphill time trial in Stage 3, and hence the Tour of Missouri, so I’m gonna stick with my pick for Wednesday’s stage

(Just to be certain, I asked Garmin-Chipotle…

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09.09.2008 2:29 pm

Columbia may have to go it alone

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Often in bike races, teams and riders form alliances to work together, whether it be riders from different teams taking pulls on a breakaway, or different teams riding at the front of the peloton to pull  back a breakaway.

But Team…

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09.08.2008 7:01 pm

Zirbel draws respect … and a pursuit from Columbia

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Most — well, all — of the prerace Tour of Missouri buzz focused on the U.S.’s two big teams, Columbia and Garmin-Chipotle, but that doesn’t mean the race will be solely the Columbia/Garmin show.

“Every team has something to prove,” defending…

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08.09.2008 11:32 am

Spain’s Sanchez wins gold

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Welp, turns out the pre-race Olympics cycling buzz about Spain was spot-on, ‘cept for the predicted winner.

The Spanish team boasted favourite Alejandro Valverde, the past two Tour de France winners in Alberto Contador and Carlos Sastre and recent TdF green…

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08.08.2008 4:27 pm

Who’s going to win the Olympics road race?

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Most of the pre-Olympics buzz has focued on the Spanish team — Alejandro Valverde and the past two Tour de France winners in Alberto Contador and Carlos Sastre — as well as the Italians, with world champion Paolo Bettini, and…

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08.04.2008 2:25 pm

Tour of Missouri announces team lineup

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

The two American-based representatives from the Tour de France — Columbia and Garmin-Chipotle — are among the 15 teams announced Monday as the competitors in the second Tour of Missouri, scheduled for Sept. 8 to 14.

Columbia, of course, is the…

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07.28.2008 5:31 pm

Garmin data from Tour de France

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

The great thing about Garmin being the title sponsor of Garmin-Chipotle is that some of the team’s rider data is available online.

To date, 16 stages have been posted on MotionBased.com. I’ve highlighted links below to some interesting stages: three of…

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07.28.2008 1:57 pm

Americans in Paris; another strong Tour de France for the U.S.A.

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

For the first time since 1998, neither an American nor a member of an American team stood atop the podium on the Champs-Elysees in Paris after the final stage of Tour de France.

But the 2008 Tour was not without a…

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07.26.2008 12:00 pm

Sastre easily holds off Evans in decisive TT; American teams shine

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

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Carlos Sastre of CSC-Saxo Bank knows the maillot jaune will be his in Paris as he crosses the finishing line Saturday in Stage 20  of the Tour de France — a 53 kilometers (33 miles) individual time trial between Cerilly…

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