US cyclist Levi Leipheimer celebrated his first stage win ever at the Tour de France on Saturday, pulling himself within 8 seconds of Cadel Evans, who sits in second place with just one stage left in the bike race.
Leipheimer's Discovery Channel teammate, Alberto Contador, survived in the yellow jersey as just 31 seconds separates the top three cyclists in the race that began nearly three weeks ago.
Leipheimer led in every time check in the 34-mile individual time trial from Cognac to Angoulême. His speed, 53.1k per hour (32.9 mph) is the fourth fastest ever recorded at the Tour…
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Another dog ran out in front of cyclists on Stage 18 of the Tour de France. From Versus Daily Video
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An autopsy has confirmed that a 31-year-old Calgary woman was killed by a black bear while on a mountain biking trip at the Panorama Mountain Resort in eastern British Columbia.
The body of Robin Kochorek was found about a half kilometer off one of the resort's marked trails last Sunday. A small brown-nosed black bear was guarding the woman's body.
It's easy for forget how powerful, dangerous, and unpredictable these bears can be…
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Mountain biker from Calgary killed by bear during a bike ride at a resort in eastern British Columbia.
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French cyclist Sandy Casar won his first Tour de France stage on Friday with his shorts ripped and hip bruised from a crash when he hit a dog earlier in the Stage 18 breakaway.
Challenging him to the end were Axel Merckx (T-Mobile) and Michael Boogerd (Rabobank), both of whom have announced this was their last Tour de France, and Laurent Lefèvre (Bouygues Telecom).
Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, riding for Discovery Channel, remained in the yellow jersey, retaining his lead over Australian Cadel Evans and teammate Levi Leipheimer of the US…
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Wins Stage 18 of Tour de France
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The Amgen Tour of California is visiting three new locales among the 12 host cities in the third annual bike race, scheduled for February 17-24, 2008.
The 700-mile bike race will start with a prologue in Palo Alto and conclude in Pasadena with a circuit race. Those two cities are new for the California tour, as is Modesto, the beginning site for Stage 3.
The tour also is visiting Santa Rosa again, the residence of this year's winner Levi Leipheimer of the Discovery Channel team …
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Lake Forest Park, a town just north of Seattle, has been informed that it can't block needed improvements to the popular Burke-Gilman bike trail.
The Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board, siding with the Cascade Bicycle Club, ruled this week that the bike trail is “an essential regional public facility” and Lake Forest Park can't pass a law that would block improvements on it.
This is great news for the more than 1,000 cyclists who use the trail that runs from the Ballard Locks on Puget Sound to the Sammamish Trail in Redmond, some 27 miles away. The county plans to widen the trail to 18 feet, from its present 10 feet, to make it safer for cyclists and pedestrians …
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Four survivors of a breakaway that led most of the day played a game of cat and mouse at the approach to the finish line in Castelsarrasin on Thursday, but all the tactics couldn't stop sprinter Daniele Bennati from winning Stage 17.
Meanwhile, the Discovery Channel team drove the rest of the peloton about 10 minutes back to protect race leader Alberto Contador, who did not wear the yellow jersey during the stage but pulled it on at ceremonies at the finish.
Tour de France organizers decided that no one would wear the yellow jersey on Thursday's stage, the day after the Rabobank team removed and fired overall leader Michael Rasmussen for lying about his whereabouts in June
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Good morning, and welcome to Stage 17 of the 2007 Tour de France.
In case you're just tuning in for the first time since Monday, there have been some major changes:
— Overall Tour leader Michael Rasmussen was kicked off the Rabobank team on Wednesday, just four stages from a sure championship in Paris.
It was unknown Wednesday night whether his Rabobank teammates would continue. What is known is that teammates Denis Menchov and Michael Boogerd gave up any chance of stage wins or podium finishes by unselfishly helping Rasmussen, who is accused of lying to his team about his whereabouts during training. I wonder what they think about The Chicken now?…
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