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• Daniel Martin back In Ireland With Millar And Backstedt In Garmin-Chipotle Team
  July 14th, 2008
  

  Newly crowned Irish road race champion Daniel Martin is heading back to the Emerald Isle to ride in a strong Garmin-Chipotle team. Martin only made his professional debut in the Tour of the Mediterranean in February but he destroyed the field to win the Irish national road race championships last month. The 21-year-old had already [...]

• Mark Cavendish Wins His Second Stage At The Tour de France
  July 12th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  TOULOUSE, France, July 12, 2008 (AFP) - Britain’s Mark Cavendish wrote a notable page in the history of British cycling at the Tour de France when he won his second stage of this year’s edition here on Saturday.
  Cavendish, a 23-year-old from the Isle of [...]

• David Millar Gives Up Much Hope Of Yellow, But Now Eyeing Stage Win
  July 10th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  SUPER-BESSE, France, July 10, 2008 (AFP) - Britain’s David Millar has all but given up hope of finally ending his eight-year wait to wear the Tour de France yellow jersey again.
  However, the Garmin team leader said his encouraging performance on the race’s first foray [...]

• David Millar Profile by Versus
  July 8th, 2008
  

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  Time Trial Alters Leaderboard
  By Bob Roll
  The man of the hour during Stage 4 was German Stefan Schumacher. He produced the ride of his life to win to win the stage and take over the yellow jersey. He has a 12-second cushion on both Kim [...]

• Timing Goes Awry For Swiss Time Trial Specialist Cancellara
  July 8th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  CHOLET, France, July 8, 2008 (AFP) - Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara admitted to suffering an off day after he failed to deliver an anticipated stage victory on the Tour de France’s fourth stage time trial.
  CSC’s reigning world time trial champion could only finish in fifth [...]

• Team Garmin Counting On David Millar For Yellow Jersey Bid
  July 7th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  NANTES, France, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - Britain’s David Millar is quietly
  building hopes of ending his eight-year wait to pull on the Tour de France
  yellow jersey.
  Millar last wore the coveted tunic in 2000 when he won the prologue at
  Futuroscope, and on Tuesday’s 29.5km race against the clock [...]

• 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 [...]

• David Millar Has Big Hopes for Tour de France Glory
  July 4th, 2008
  

  You Can Beat So Does Team Garmin
  by Justin Davis
  BREST, France, July 4, 2008 (AFP) - This time last year David Millar came back to the Tour de France with the air of a debutant trying to find his way in the race hierarchy.
  Ahead of the [...]

• David Millar Has High Hopes For Tour de France Glory In 2008
  July 3rd, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  BREST, France, July 3, 2008 (AFP) - This time last year David Millar came back to the Tour de France with the air of a debutant trying to find his way in the race hierarchy.
  Ahead of the first stage on Saturday, a 197.5km [...]

• David Millar To Spearhead Team Garmin’s Tour de France Bid
  June 26th, 2008
  

  PARIS, June 26, 2008 (AFP) - Former stage winner David Millar of Scotland
  will spearhead the Garmin (ex-Slipstream) team’s bid for glory on the July
  5-27 Tour de France.
  Millar recently came close to winning a stage on the Giro d’Italia, where
  a late mechanical cost him any chance of victory, and the British rider [...]

• Levi Leipheimer TGIF… Keeps Yellow Jersey in 2008 Tour of California after Stage 5
  February 22nd, 2008
  

  Levi Leipheimer beat 2nd place David Millar by 28 seconds on a 30-minute ride. It was enough to hold off Fabian Cancellara and Robert Gesink and keep the yellow jersey.
  All three riders were on the course together, 2 minutes apart at the start, virtually riding head-to-head.
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  More photos here and here!