Norwegian cyclist Kurt-Asle Arvesen slipped past Italian Paolo Bettini in front of a 21-man breakaway to win Stage 8 of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday.
Discovery Channel's George Hincapie found himself in the break that escaped from the peloton in the Apennines early in the day. Although he and teammate Jose Luis Rubiera couldn't turn that good luck into a …
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Italian sprint specialist Alessandro Petacchi scored his second stage win at the Giro d'Italia bike race on Saturday, beating a crowd that included Norway's Thor Hushovd and Italy's Paolo Bettini.
That marks 21 Giro wins for the bicyclist known as “Ale-Jet” since his first in 2003 and emphasizes the fact that he's definitely recovered from a kneecap injury he suffered …
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This hardly ever happens, but sometimes the breakaway does stay out in front until the finish line.
Two cyclists celebrated that rare good luck on Stage 6 of the Giro d'Italia on Friday, when Colombia Luis Felipe Laverde (Ceramica) won the stage and Italian Marco Pinotti (T-Mobile) took the leader's pink jersey.
It marks the first time in the 2007 that a member of the Liquigas team — primarily Danilo Di Luca — didn't don the pink jersey at the end of the day. Di Luca sits in 3rd place overall, 4-minutes-12 in back of Pinotti …
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The Giro d'Italia returned to a bike race for the sprinters on Thursday as Germany's Robert Forster (Gerolsteiner) won by charging out the pack and holding off Thor Hushovd in Frascati.
Italian cyclist Danilo Di Luca held onto the pink leader's jersey; cyclists for the Liquigas team have held onto the overall lead for the entire bike race so far.
The 107-mile Stage 5 routed the peloton from Teano to the outskirts of Rome with a fairly level course that saw just one climb. …
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Danilo Di Luca prevailed on the 10-mile climb into Montevergine Di Mercogliano at the end of a rain-slicked, 95-mile Stage 4 of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday.
The Italian was in a group of 20 that battled up the curvy mountain road, and he attacked Riccardo Ricco, Damiano Cunego and other noted climbers in the last 600 feet for the win.
His Liquigas teammate, Enrico Gasparotto, lost the pink jersey to Di Luca after going down in one of the many crashes that marked the rainy stage that started in Salerno. …
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It's been more than a year since Italian sprint specialist Alessandro Petacchi won a stage at the Giro d'Italia, but he did it on Monday without a leadout from his Milram teammates.
Since he injured his kneecap in Stage 3 last year, you'd have to look back to 2005 for a Giro stage win by the “Ale-Jet,” who still holds the most Giro wins among active cyclists.
Petacchi won 6 stages of the Giro in 2003, 9 in 2004 and 4 in 2005. Even with his current dominance, he has a long way to go to match the record of 42 Giro wins held by Mario Cipollini, who won his last Giro stage the same year that Petacchi won his first. …
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The cycling world might be beset by countless doping inquiries, but for a few moments on the island of Sardinia on this Mother's Day Sunday, everything seemed as it should be.
The Giro d'Italia peloton had chased down a five-man breakaway with about 3 miles to go in the 126-mile stage from Tempio Pausania to Bosa, and the sprinters were lining up.
Italian sprinter Allesandro Pettachi sits behind his leadout riders from Milram, whose speed stretch out the peloton. Taking advantage of the situation are Robbie McEwen (Predictor-Lotto) sitting on Pettachi's back wheel and Paolo Bettini (QuickStep) sitting in McEwen's slipstream …
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The Liquigas cycling team, captained by Italian Danilo Di Luca, won the opening day team time trial at the Giro d'Italia on Saturday on a twisting course around the island of Sardinia.
While teammate Enrico Gasparotto finished first and received the pink leader's jersey, Di Luca will get the same time, putting him 16 seconds ahead of former Giro winner Paolo Savoldelli and the Astana team.
Di Luca has been named among the possible winners of this wide-open Giro d'Italia. The odds-on favorite of the race, Gilberto Simoni, finished 1-minute, 28 seconds behind with the Saunier Duval team. Another favorite, Damiano Cunego, fared better with Lampre, which finished 42 seconds behind the leader. …
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Who's going to wear the pink leader's jersey on the podium in Milan at the close of this year's Giro d'Italia? It's anybody's guess.
Defending champion Ivan Basso was a sure favorite until he dropped out, and American Tyler Hamilton (Tinkoff) wanted to make a strong try for it until he was yanked out.
What's left are the winners from 2000 through 2005, and a host of young talent. The race begins Saturday and runs through June 3. …
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American cyclist Tyler Hamilton has been suspended from the Tinkoff Credit Systems team until his involvement with Operacion Puerto is “sorted out.”
Hamilton and teammate Jorg Jaksche already had been dropped from the starting roster of the Giro d'Italia, which begins Saturday, because their names had been associated with Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor targeted in the Spanish blood-doping probe. …
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