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05.22.2009 7:46 pm

The media, Lance Armstrong, Twitter and the Giro d’Italia

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

This media vs. Lance Armstrong tift at the Giro d’Italia is becoming soooo high school, in a “That ’70s Show” kind of way. 

Cyclingnews.com reports today that some media covering the Giro are now boycotting Armstrong’s 140characters of Twitter wisdom because Armstrong has been Silent…

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05.21.2009 7:58 pm

Giro d’Italia has been Universally appealing

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

The Giro d’Italia to date has been an exceptional race, with excitment and drama supplied by …

– The American team Columbia High-Road with five stage wins: the opening stage team time trial,  two by sprinter Mark Cavendish, and one each by Edvald Boasson Hagen…

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05.10.2009 11:36 am

Petacchi wins Stage 2; Cavendish still in maglia rosa

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Columbia-High Road’s Mark Cavendish started his finishing sprint just a tick late, enough to let Alessandro Petacchi of LPR Brakes jump past him and win the second stage of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday.

Still, Cavendish maintained the overall lead in…

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05.09.2009 3:57 pm

Mark Cavendish takes maglia rose as Columbia wins TTT

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Columbia-High Road stole the thunder from defending team time trial champion Garmin-Slipstream in the opening stage of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday.

The first team to start, C-HR thundered across the finishing line with its entire nine-man team in tact, setting…

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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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04.30.2009 1:27 pm

Saxo Bank joins Tour of Missouri field

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

This just in … Saxo Bank has joined big shooters Columbia-High Road, Garmin-Slipstream, Astana, Quick Step, Liquigas and Cervelo in the Tour of Missouri field.

In short, this field is stacked; there’s going to be some massive firepower on the roads…

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04.14.2009 1:49 pm

Tour of Missouri adds Quick Step to its cavalcade of stars

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Fresh off victories in the prestigious Paris-Roubaix _ aka Hincapie Heartbreaker _ and the Tour of Flanders, Tom Boonen’s Quick Step squad has been added to the Tour of Missouri, Sept. 7-13.
The Quick Step boys become the fifth Pro Tour…

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04.08.2009 10:52 pm

Big win for Columbia-High Road in Gent-Wevelgem

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2009/apr09/wevelgem09/?id=results

Columbia-High Road delivered another victory Wednesday, with Edvald Boasson Hagen winning the Gent-Wevelgem classic.

And it also seems as if his teammate, Big George Hincapie, saved some gas in the tank to contend for the victory this weekend in Paris-Roubaix.

Columbia-High Road is…

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04.07.2009 10:07 am

Gent-Wevelgem classic may be Mark Cavendish’s race

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Cycylingnews.com is touting Columbia-High Road’s Mark Cavendish as the man to beat Wednesday in the spring classic Gent-Wevelgem and who is ol’ 10 Speed to argue.

Cavendish, who won three stages at the Tour of Missouri last year, has seven wins under…

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03.21.2009 7:23 pm

Mark Cavendish wins Milano-Sanremo

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

Columbia-High Road’s Mark Cavendish nipped Cervelo TestTeam’s Heinrich Haussler at the finishing line to win the Milano-Sanremo classic Saturday in Italy.

See the race finish here

Cavendish hauled himself over peaks and through valleys to keep in contact with the leading…

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