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• 2010 Giro to start in the Netherlands
  October 24th, 2009
  

  The 93rd edition of the Tour of Italy in 2010 will start in the Netherlands on May 8 before embarking on a 3,416.5km journey around the Italian peninsula and ending in Verona on May 30.
  That was the course unveiled in Milan on Saturday with 21 stages and 39 climbs.

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• Valverde Facing Tough Road To Rainbow Jersey Win
  September 26th, 2009
  

  by Justin Davis
  MENDRISIO, Sept 26, 2009 (AFP) – Alejandro Valverde will find out on Sunday whether his recent Tour of Spain triumph costs him the chance to finally be crowned world champion.
  The Spaniard begins the blue riband event of the world road race championships, a 262.2km [...]

• Italy Names Formidable Team For Worlds Road Race
  September 14th, 2009
  

  ROME, Sept 14, 2009 (AFP) – Alessandro Ballan and former Tour of Italy winners Damiano Cunego and Ivan Basso have been named in a formidable Italian team for the world road race championships later this month.
  Although Ballan is the reigning champion his Lampre team-mate Cunego is the form man of [...]

• Cunego Bags Another Summit, Valverde Still Wearing Gold
  September 13th, 2009
  

  Italian Damiano Cunego claimed his second mountains victory of this year’s Tour of Spain when he stamped his climbing prowess over the rain-hit 14th stage held over 157km from Grenada to La Pandera Sunday.
  Spanish race leader Alejandro Valverde of Caisse d’Epargne had to fight to keep the gold jersey [...]

• Cunego Wins Tour of Spain Eighth Stage, Evans Takes Golden Jersey
  September 6th, 2009
  

  Italy’s Damiano Cunego won the eighth stage of the Tour of Spain on Sunday, the first to be held in the mountains this year, as Australia’s Cadel Evans took the overall lead.
  The 27-year-old sprinted ahead of France’s David Moncoutie in the final kilometer of the 204.7-kilometer (127-mile) ride between [...]

• Cunego Leads The Assault On Fiendish Dutch Classic
  April 18th, 2009
  

  MAASTRICHT, Netherlands, April 17, 2009 (AFP) – Defending champion Damiano Cunego is among the favourites going into Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race, the only spring classic which takes place in the Netherlands.
  The 258.6km road race leads from Maastricht to Valkenburg in the hilly Limburg region in the south of the [...]

• Cunego Wins Second Coppi e Bartali
  March 28th, 2009
  

  ROME, March 28, 2009 (AFP) – Damiano Cunego won his second Coppi e Bartali title on Saturday despite being beaten in a sprint finish by Australian Cadel Evans on the fifth and final stage.
  Evans, the reigning champion, edged out Cunego, also the 2006 winner, and Italian Giovanni Visconti at [...]

• Cunego Wins Coppi e Bartali Second Stage For Lampre
  March 25th, 2009
  

  ROME, March 25, 2009 (AFP) – Former Giro d’Italia winner Damiano Cunego won the second stage of the Coppi e Bartali race over 182.1km from San Lazzaro to Faenza on Wednesday.
  Italian Cunego, of the Lampre team, edged out Colombian Jose Serpa into second with third place going to Giovanni [...]

• Damiano Cunego Wins The 2008 Tour of Lombardy
  October 18th, 2008
  

  ROME, Oct 18, 2008 (AFP) – Italian Damiano Cunego won the Tour of Lombardy for the third time on Saturday after a daring solo breakaway with 15km remaining of the 242km course from Varese to Como.
  The Lampre rider broke clear on the technical descent of the Civiglio mountain [...]

• Italy’s Damiano Cunego Pulls Out Of The Beijing Olympics
  August 2nd, 2008
  

  PARIS, Aug 2, 2008 (AFP) – Italy’s Damiano Cunego, still feeling the effects of a fall in the Tour de France, on Saturday pulled out of the Olympic road race event in Beijing, his Lampre team announced.
  He finished 36th in Saturday’s San Sebastian classic, more than nine minutes [...]

• Damiano Cunego Out Of Tour Following 3rd Crash
  July 24th, 2008
  

  SAINT ETIENNE, France, July 24, 2008 (AFP) – Italian Damiano Cunego on Thursday pulled out of the Tour de France having earlier battled manfully through the 18th stage after sustaining potentially serious injuries in a crash, team sources said.
  “It’s a miracle I finished this stage,” said Cunego, who came [...]

• Cadel Evans Says No To Indurain Inspired Tour de France Bid
  July 4th, 2008
  

  BREST, France, July 4, 2008 (AFP) – Australia’s Cadel Evans said he is unlikely to rely on his time trialling powers alone in his bid to win the yellow jersey on this year’s Tour de France.
  Evans came agonizingly close to becoming Australia’s first Tour champion in 2007 when [...]

• Lampre Team For 2008 Tour de France Announced
  June 30th, 2008
  

  PARIS, June 30, 2008 (AFP) – The Lampre team, which will support 2004 Tour of Italy champion and team leader Damiano Cunego in the Tour de France next month, was announced on Monday.
  Cunego can count on compatriots Marco Marzano and Paolo Tiralongo in the mountains and Matteo Bono, [...]