The Olympic women's road race all went according to plan for the UK's Nicole Cooke. The team tactics for Sunday's race in Beijing were cooked up a year ago.
Cooke won a three-woman sprint for the gold in a 78-mile road race that was marked by heavy rains.
US cyclists Kristin Armstrong finished in 25th at 43 seconds behind, Amber Neben in 33rd at 53 second back, and Christine Thorburn finished 52nd at 8-minutes-44 behind the winner.
France's Jeannie Longo, the 49-year-old competing in her 7th Olympics, finished in 24th place, 33 seconds behind the winners …
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UK's gold medal winner in the Olympic women's road race
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Two of the best obliterated the field in the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race in Colorado on Saturday, with David Wiens pulling away from Lance Armstrong near the finish for the win.
In spite of the loss, it shows that the 7-time Tour de France winner is still in incredible shape. With all the travelling, speaking engagements, high-profile dating, etc., 36-year-old Armstrong finished within 2 minutes of the now six-time Leadville winner.
The same can be said for the fitness level of 43-year-old Wiens. Last year he held off a challenge by former mountain biker and Tour de France competitor Floyd Landis. VeloNews said Wiens' victory this year was 13 minutes faster than last year's course record that he set against Landis, who fell during the race …
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Weather permitting — that is if the smog in Beijing doesn't get worse — women cyclists from around the world will compete in the 78-mile Olympic road race on Sunday.
Due to time differences, that event starts at 2 p.m. Beijing time, 2 a.m. Eastern Time and 11 p.m. Pacific Time. NBC has scheduled a live, online video stream.
Three cyclists from the United States will compete among the 66 women cyclists. They are Kristin Armstrong, Amber Neben, and Christine Thorburn…
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Spain's Samuel Sanchez won the Olympic gold medal in road race on Saturday in a six-man sprint over a hot, humid 152-mile course around Beijing.
The 30-year-old cyclist for Euskaltel-Euskadi during the regular season was helped by a national team that included this year's Giro d'Italia champion Alberto Contador and Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre.
Not that Sanchez didn't pull his own weight. He took his turn pulling apart the peloton on the last lap and a half for Alejandro Valverde, a favorite to win for Spain. But when the attacks started on the final kilometers, Valverde couldn't respond.
US cyclists Levi Leipheimer and Christian Vande Velde finished in 11th and 17th, part of a group that was left behind in the final push to the finish ….
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Spain's Samuel Sanchez wins gold medal in Olympic road race.
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Screen shot of video-stream of NBCOlympics.com
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Morning after video update:
The NBC video stream worked flawlessly until about 15 kilometers from the finish, when it started buffering and never came back. I have no idea what happened — was it a problem on my end or their end? — but I was not pleased to have watched the road race video-stream off and on for some six hours and have it crap out on me in the final 20 minutes or so.
What an odd sensation to be sitting here as the sun sets Friday evening and watching the Olympic cycling road race on my son's computer as it happens late Saturday morning in China.
The videocast from NBCOlympics.com began at 8 p.m. Pacific Time, so apparently NBC plans to show the 152-mile race from start to finish …
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“Grandpa” will be among the five US cyclists competing in the 152-mile Olympic road race that begins Saturday morning in Beijing.
Of course grandpa is 35-year-old George Hincapie, who earned that nickname among his teammates because of his US record five Olympics. Other US men competing in the road race are Levi Leipheimer, Jason McCartney, Christian Vande Velde, and David Zabriskie.
The men's road race will be video streamed live at the NBC Olympics website. Check the TV and Online schedule at NBC for detailed times. It starts at 11 p.m. ET on Friday, 8 p.m. Friday in the Pacific Time Zone…
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