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Tejay van Garderen wins Amgen Tour of California
SANTA ROSA — Tejay van Garderen rode his bicycle into a hotel meeting room Sunday as if he were corralling a bucking bronco. He reared the cycle up on its back wheel and slammed it down during a well-earned and well-deserved celebration. Van...
Tags: Tejay van Garderen, Thor Hushovd, Tyler Farrar, Peter Sagan, Tour of California
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Leopold Konig wins seventh stage of Tour of California
DANVILLE, Calif. — Leopold Konig of the Czech Republic won the seventh stage of the Tour of California in a mountaintop finish Saturday, and American Tejay van Garderen finished third to keep the overall lead for the third straight day. Konig,...
Tags: Colombia, Czech Republic, Tejay van Garderen, Gaming, Andy Schleck
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Amgen Tour of California starts Sunday in Escondido
ESCONDIDO — The eighth Amgen Tour of California begins at 11:15 a.m. Sunday in Escondido, and for the first time the largest cycling stage race in the United States is traveling from south to north. The 750-mile trip will end May 19 in Santa Rosa....
Tags: Sports, Politics, Robert Gesink, Giro d'Italia, Road Race Cycling
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Cycling tries to put doping in the past
ESCONDIDO, Calif. — They're trying. The cyclists and team managers participating in the eighth Amgen Tour of California gathered Friday at City Hall to speak about the future of the sport. Not the past. Please, not the past. At least there was...
Tags: Lance Armstrong, Greg LeMond, Sports, Jens Voigt, Giro d'Italia
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Lance Armstrong scandal creates a mess in Spain
The Lance Armstrong doping scandal continues to reverberate through Spain, where authorities have launched an investigation into several figures allegedly linked to the American cyclist. Prosecutors are looking at Spanish citizens mentioned in the U.S....
Tags: Sports, Lance Armstrong, Cycling Trial, Rafael Nadal, Cycling
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Let these new bike helmets go to your head
I should be dead, twice. The fact that I'm not — or even brain-damaged (I think) — is due to the helmets I wore while being hit by a car and slamming head-first into a mountain trail. By design, their foam shells cracked instead of my skull,...
Tags: Greg LeMond, Concussion
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Bayern Munich routs Barcelona, 4-0, in first leg of Champions League semifinal
Thomas Mueller scored twice, Mario Gomez and Arjen Robben had one goal each and Bayern Munich routed Barcelona, 4-0, Tuesday night in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal in Munich. Bayern Munich sent Barcelona to its first four-goal defeat...
Tags: Lance Armstrong, Soccer, Floyd Landis, College Sports, U.S. Department of Justice
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USADA chief: Lance Armstrong can implicate others in doping scandal
Travis Tygart, who is the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, told a French government senate hearing Thursday that he wants Lance Armstrong to provide information detailing the alleged complicity of cycling's governing body, the International Cycling...
Tags: Lance Armstrong, Sports, Football, Cycling, Tyrann Mathieu
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Lance Armstrong pulls out of swimming event after FINA objects
Lance Armstrong won't be returning to competition this weekend after all. The disgraced former cyclist, who has been banned for life from all events sanctioned by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, decided not to take part in three distance events in the...
Tags: Lance Armstrong, Sports, World Anti-Doping Agency, Oprah Winfrey, Swimming
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Teams announced for 2013 Amgen Tour of California
Amgen Tour of California announced that 16 teams will participate in the 2013 race that will run from May 12-19. Returning for its sixth year is Belgium team Omega Pharama-Quick Step Cycling, whose roster includes popular sprinter Tom Boonen, whose...
Tags: Sports, 50 Cent, Tom Boonen, Road Race Cycling, Amgen Inc.
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U.S. Justice Department joining lawsuit against Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong is now in trouble with the U.S. government. The Justice Department has joined a lawsuit filed two years ago by another disgraced cyclist, Floyd Landis, MSNBC.com was first to report on Friday. The government could claim that it was...
Tags: Lance Armstrong, Sports, Crime, Law and Justice, Floyd Landis, Cycling
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Lance Armstrong declines to cooperate with USADA
Lance Armstrong’s interest in cooperating with anti-doping authorities does not include plans to speak to the agency that most thoroughly detailed the transgressions that left him stripped of his seven Tour de France cycling titles. Armstrong on...
Tags: Sports, International Court or Tribunal, Lance Armstrong, Oprah Winfrey, Floyd Landis
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