Tour de France Through Stage 4 — All You Really Need To Know
There’s little exciting about a time trial unless you’re the guy on the bike. For fans, it’s just “there goes one, there goes another.”
But we all know the Tour actually started today. Everything before has been about pageantry and trying not to fall off the bike or otherwise embarrass yourself with stinkin’ thinkin’ (ahem, Menchov).
Not to [...]
Factfile on Dauphine Libere Winner Alejandro Valverde
GRENOBLE, France, June 15, 2008 (AFP) - Factfile on Dauphine Libere winner Alejandro Valverde:
Date of birth: April 25, 1980
Place of birth: Las Lumbreras, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Height: 1.78m
Weight: 61kg
Sport/discipline: cycling/road
Teams: Kelme (2002-2004), Iles [...]
Dauphine Libere Results - Final Stage and Overall
Results from the seventh and final stage of the Dauphine Libere race held over 128km here Sunday:
Final Stage
1. Dmitriy Fofonov (KAZ/C.A) 3hr 17min 21sec, 2. Jurgen Van de Walle
(BEL/QST) same time, 3. Yury Trofimov (RUS/BTL) s.t., 4. Christophe Riblon
(FRA/A2R) at 11sec, 5. Matteo Carrara (ITA/QST) 11, 6. Daniele [...]
Alejandro Valverde of The Caisse d’Espargne Wins The 2008 Dauphine Libere
GRENOBLE, France, June 15, 2008 (AFP) - Spaniard Alejandro Valverde of the Caisse d’Epargne team won the Dauphine Libere cycling race here on Sunday after the seventh and final stage.
Kazakh Dmitriy Fofonov of Credit Agricole won the 128km stage, with Valverde finishing among the leading peloton more than two [...]
Dauphine Libere Results - Stage Six and Overall
Results from the sixth and penultimate stage of the Dauphine Libere race held over 233km here Saturday:
Stage Six
1. Chris-Anker Sorensen (DEN/CSC) 6hr 15min 53sec, 2. Pierrick Fedrigo
(FRA/BTL) at 1:02, 3. Levi Leipheimer (USA/AST) 1:10, 4. Sylvester Szmyd
(POL/LAM) 1:15, 5. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/GCE) 1:15, 6. Cadel Evans (AUS/SIL) 1:17, 7. [...]
Alejandro Valverde Soaks Up Cadel Evans Attack To Reinforce Lead
by Jean Montois
LA TOUSSUIRE, France, June 14, 2008 (AFP) - Spaniard Alejandro Valverde showed some of the composure that could prove crucial in July’s Tour de France as he soaked up an attack by Dauphine Libere rival Cadel Evans here Saturday.
Cadel Evans launched what looked to [...]
Dauphine Libere Results - Stage 5 and Overall
Results from the fifth stage of the Dauphine Libere stage race here on Friday:
1. Yury Trofimov (RUS/BTL) 3hr 07min 46sec, 2. Cadel Evans (AUS/SIL) at 18sec, 3. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/GCE) 18, 4. Haimar Zubeldia (ESP/EUS) 23, 5.
Sylvester Szmyd (POL/LAM) 26, 6. Robert Gesink (NED/RAB) 26, 7. Juan Jose Cobo
(ESP/SDV) 26, 8. Vladimir [...]
Levi Leipheimer Loses Time As Youry Trofimov Wins The Dauphine Fifth Stage
MORZINE, France, June 13, 2008 (AFP) - Former mountain bike specialist Youry Trofimov of the Bouyges Telecom team claimed a prestigious alpine victory on the fifth stage of the Dauphine Libere stage race here on Friday.
Trofimov, of Russia, hoisted himself up the general classification after breaking free of an [...]
Dauphine Libere Favorites Are Kept At Bay As Cyril Dessel Rides To Stage 4 Win
ANNEMASSE, France, June 12, 2008 (AFP) - Frenchman Cyril Dessel of the AG2R team won the fourth stage of the Dauphine Libere on Thursday, following an impressive solo attack on the first day of four in the Alps.
Dessel, a former stage winner on the Tour de France, where [...]
Dauphine Liebere Results - Stage 3 and Overall
Results in the third stage of the Dauphine Libere on Wednesday, a 31km time-trial around
Saint-Paul-en-Jarez:
1. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/GCE) 44min 59sec (average: 41.34 km/h), 2. Levi Leipheimer (USA/AST) at 19sec, 3. Cadel Evans (AUS/SIL) 20, 4. Mikel Astarloza
(ESP/EUS) 1:00, 5. Maxime Monfort (BEL/COF) 1:01, 6. Stef Clement (NED/BTL) 1:06, 7. Yury Trofimov [...]
