The Discovery Channel pro cycling team's Tomas Vaitkus broke his thumb in that huge pile-up near the finish of Stage 2 on Monday and will not continue the Tour.
The pileup in Ghent took a toll on two American riders as well, although they plan to continue the race.
Discovery's George Hincapie bruised his knee (New York Times says right knee, CyclingNews said left knee), but is expected to return on Stage 3. Freddy Rodriguez of Predictor Lotto got two deep cuts on his elbow stitched up …
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A Belgian cyclist won Stage 2 in front of his countrymen in the Tour de France bike race on Monday, but it wasn't the Belgian in the script.
Gert Steegmans essentially works for Tom Boonen on the QuickStep team, and Steegmans was leading out Boonen at the finsh line in Ghent. How cool would it be for Belgian sprint champion Boonen to win in front of the hometown crowd?
But Steegmans kept driving toward the finish line to hold off the rest of the crash-depleted bunch, and Boonen was unable to pass Steegmans at the line. Boonen patted his teammate on the back, however, congratulating him on the 1-2 finish for the QuickStep team. …
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Kazahkstan's most famous bicyclist, Alexander Vinokourov, won the “Who's going to win the 2007 Tour de France poll” with 33% of the vote.
The first runner-up was US cyclist Levi Leipheimer with 21% of the votes, followed by Vino's teammate Andreas Kloden with 8% of the vote.
American Floyd Landis won the poll last year, receiving 33% of the votes, equal to Vinokourov. The support Vino received from winning this year's Biking Bis poll will certainly encourage him to do his best over the next three weeks, just as it certainly must have helped Landis. If he wins, let's hope he doesn't run into Landis' troubles. …
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Cycling fans watch cyclists at Redmond, Washington, for the 67th running of Derby Days.
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Counted out after going down in a crash 12 miles from the finish, Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen won his 12th Tour de France stage in Canterbury on Sunday.
The last we saw of the sprinter, until he popped out of the crowd at the finish, McEwen was looking at his right wrist as his Predictor-Lotto teammates got him back into the rear of the peloton about 4 miles from the end.
Quick-Step and Lampre led the peloton onto the streets of Canterbury, where Milram took over the train for Erik Zabel. There wasn't much cooperation among the teams, though, allowing Barloworld's Robert Hunter to jump out of the pack. …
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Predictor-Lotto's sprinter Robbie McEwen
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Except for wishing his team well, Lance Armstrong isn't picking anyone to win this year's Tour de France.
In Armstrong first year of retirement in 2006, he picked Germany's Jan Ullrich. Then he switched to Italy's Ivan Basso. Both had dogged him in his previous Tour wins.
Of course, neither Ullrich nor Basso raced in 2006 after the rumored allegations …
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At the end of the day, it's probably no surprise that world time trial champion Fabian Cancellara (left, Team CSC) would win the opening day prologue for the 2007 Tour de France on Saturday by a 13-second margin.
The surprise is George Hincapie's (right, Discovery Channel) 3rd place finish in the London prologue, 10 seconds behind 2nd place Andreas Kloden (Astana), considered one of the overall Tour favorites.
Another US cyclist, David Zabriskie of Team CSC, briefly led the rankings in the 5-mile prologue, but dropped to 11th overall at the end of the day. …
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Team CSC's Fabian Cancellara wins prologue at 2007 Tour de France. Is world champion time trial cyclist.
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