Category: Racing

Christian Vande Velde

Garmin-Transitions team leader at Tour de France

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Sylvain Chavanel

Quick Step cyclist

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Alessandro Petacchi

Lampre sprinter

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Fabian Cancellara

Team Saxo Bank

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Lance Armstrong – Radio Shack

Mugshot for Tour de France

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Alberto Contador – Astana

Tour de France mugshot

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Cadel Evans of BMC Cycling

Tour de France contender

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Cadel Evans

BMC Cycling Team.

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Matthew Lee wins Tour Divide mountain bike race… again

Matthew Lee rolled into Antelope Wells, New Mexico, early Tuesday morning under the cover of darkness to win the 2010 Tour Divide mountain bike race.

Lee finished the both breath-taking and grueling race down the spine of the Continental Divide in 17 days, 16 hours and 13 minutes. It was his sixth victory.

Winning this year meant that Lee overcame the weather, the theft of his bicycle, a mid-route course change due to a forest fire, and the tragic loss of fellow Tour Divide cyclist David Blumenthal.

He averaged about 158 miles a day over dirt track and gravel road ….

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Mountain biker Dave Blumenthal dies from crash in Tour Divide

Tragedy struck the Tour Divide Mountain Bike Race on Thursday when competitor Dave Blumenthal died from injuries he suffered in a collision with a pickup truck the day before in northern Colorado.

Blumenthal, 37, was pronounced dead at a Denver hospital. He leaves behind his wife, Lexi, and 4-year-old daughter Linnaea.

The outdoorsman from Vermont was competing in his first Tour Divide, which started June 11 in Banff, Alberta. After crossing the Wyoming-Colorado border, he had spent Tuesday night at the Brush Mountain Lodge near Slater and was heading toward Steamboat Springs when the crash occurred.

A Colorado State Patrol trooper told a Vermont newspaper (ArgusTimes.com) that Blumenthal and the pickup driver were heading in opposite directions ….

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