Category: Racing
Tyler Farrar will undoubtedly remember this week forever.
The Washington state native on Saturday posted his third win at the Eneco Tour, edging out Edvald Boasson Hagen in a photo finish.
The victory in Libramont, Belgium, kept him in the overall lead in the bike race through Belgium and The Netherlands that ends next Tuesday. He leads Belgium's Tom Boonen by 20 seconds.
Farrar, the sprint specialist on US-based Garmin Slipstream pro cycling team, started the week with a win at the Vattenfall Cyclassics on Sunday …
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US cyclists are battling it out for high positions in bike races in Belgium, Ireland and the US on Friday.
Cyclist Tyler Farrar missed a third straight stage victory at the Eneco Tour when Tom Boonen sprinted right past him at the finish line in Hasselt, Belgium, on Friday.
Meanwhile, Lance Armstrong's highly touted participation in the Tour of Ireland ended with him finishing in the main peloton, just 16 seconds behind the winner, Russell Downing of Great Britain…
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Washington state homeboy Tyler Farrar captured his second sprint-finish win at the Eneco Tour bike race in Belgium on Thursday.
Born and raised in Wenatchee, Farrar earlier admitted he had a frustrating Tour de France with several second-place showings against Team Columbia's sprint phenom Mark Cavendish. The Brit won 6 stages in the 2009 Tour.
In the past week, the 25-year-old member of US-based Garmin Slipstream has two first place finishes at Eneco Tour on Wednesday and Thursday and a win at the Vattenfall Cyclassics in Germany on Sunday.
It's uncertain when Farrar and Cavendish will finally get a chance to meet again…
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Cycling fans will be treated to action from three bike races in the upcoming weeks on both the computer screen and the TV screen.
Versus is offering a delayed broadcast of the 3-stage Tour of Ireland running Friday through Sunday and featuring comeback cyclist Lance Armstrong.
Then Universal Sports provides the 64th edition of the Vuelta a Espana from Aug. 29 through Sept. 20 as a live online videofeed and cable broadcast in the morning, followed by another cable broadcast later in the day.
At the same time, from Sept. 7 through 13, Universal is offering a live cable broadcast and an online streaming videofeed of the Tour of Missouri. …
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Lance Armstrong won the Leadville 100 mountain bike race Saturday with some added drama — a flat tire and crowds that blocked the finish line.
In spite of those setbacks, he set a new record over the grueling course.
The 7-time Tour de France winner finished the race in 6:28:50, that's 16:55 faster than the course record set last year when Leadville legend David Wiens beat Armstrong by about two minutes.
While Armstrong had an 18-minute lead on the defending champion near the end of the race, he lost time after his tire blew about 5 or 6 miles out. Then in Leadville, police had to push back the crowds that were blocking Armstrong from the finish.
The course record of 6:45:45 was set by Wiens in 2008. The entire 100-mile bike race takes place above the 9,000-foot elevation mark ….
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Universal Sports, the network that brought us live streaming of the Giro d'Italia, is following up with live online and delayed broadcasts of the 2009 Vuelta a Espana which rolls out from August 29 to September 20.
All 21 stages will be shown live at UniversalSports.com every morning, complete with an online “Tracker” that shows riders' positions on the course and stage maps and profiles.
The stages will be replayed on the Universal Sports broadcast and cable network during the day and followed by an enhanced replay in primetime.
Meanwhile, Tour de France broadcaster Versus announced that viewership soared 41% over the previous year. Multichannel News reported that the Versus website fared well too, with a 117% increase in traffic over 2008 …
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Will Saxo Bank star cross over to Team RadioShack?
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Eukaltel Euskada rider wins Stage 16 of Tour de France
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Spain's Alberto Contador of Team Astana
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Within 5 seconds of Yellow Jersey at Tour de France.
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