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• Three Time World Champion Freire Joins Katusha
  October 21st, 2011
  

  PARIS, Oct 20, 2011 (AFP) – Spain’s Oscar Freire, a three-time world champion, will race for Katusha next season, the Russian team announced on Thursday. The 35-year-old had raced for [...]

• Schlecks Target San Sebastian Classic In The Absence Of Evans
  July 29th, 2011
  

  SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, July 29, 2011 (AFP) – Andy and Frank Schleck will headline the San Sebastian Classic on Saturday in the absence of newly-crowned Tour de France champion Cadel [...]

• Freire To Leave Swiss Tour For Sinus Surgery
  June 14th, 2011
  

  GRINDELWALD, Switzerland, June 14, 2011 – Spanish sprinter Oscar Freire is set to leave the Tour of Switzerland Wednesday in order to undergo surgery on troublesome sinuses, his Rabobank team [...]

• Freire Off Tour de France As Rabobank To Focus On Gesink
  April 12th, 2011
  

  PARIS, April 12, 2011 – Top Spanish sprinter Oscar Freire will not race this year’s Tour de France as his Dutch team Rabobank focus on the yellow jersey ambitions of [...]

• Freire Disqualified As Gavazzi Wins Basque Stage 5
  April 8th, 2011
  

  MADRID, April 8, 2011 – Italy’s Francesco Gavazzi of Lampre won the fifth stage of the Tour of the Basque Country Friday after veteran Spanish sprint ace Oscar Freire was [...]

• Markel Irizar Overall Winner in Ruta del Sol
  February 24th, 2011
  

  Team RadioShack’s Markel Irizar is the overall winner of the Vuelta a Andalucía (Ruta Ciclista del Sol). In the fifth and last stage to Antequera, the Basque rider kept his [...]

• Freire ’90 Percent’ Sure To Retire Next Year
  October 10th, 2010
  

  : TOURS, France – Spanish sprint specialist Oscar Freire confirmed he is almost certain to bring the curtain down on his erratic but illustrious career at the end of 2011. [...]

• Freire Sprints To Impressive Paris-Tours Win
  October 10th, 2010
  

  TOURS, France – Rabobank’s Oscar Freire became the first Spaniard to win the Paris-Tours one-day classic Sunday when he out sprinted Italy’s Angelo Furlan and Belgian Gert Steegmans at the [...]

• Freire To Lead Spain Team For World Championships
  September 16th, 2010
  

  Spain will send a 10-member team to the UCI Road World Championships in Australia next month led by three-time world champion Oscar Freire, the coach announced Thursday. Spain, which heads [...]

• Cancellara Retains Yellow As Petacchi Wins First Stage
  July 4th, 2010
  

  BRUSSELS – Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland retained the race leader’s yellow jersey after the crash-marred Tour de France first stage won in spectacular fashion by Alessandro Petacchi of Lampre on [...]

• Rabobank’s Freire Out Of Giro
  May 6th, 2010
  

  AMSTERDAM, May 6, 2010 (AFP) – Spaniard Oscar Freire of the Rabobank team on Thursday pulled out of the Tour of Italy just two days before it starts in Amsterdam [...]

• Freire To Spearhead Rabobank Giro Bid
  May 3rd, 2010
  

  PARIS, May 3, 2010 – Spaniard Oscar Freire, winner of the Milan-Sanremo race in March, will spearhead the Rabobank team on the Tour of Italy which gets under way on [...]

• Freire Still Leading, Gavazzi Takes Stage
  April 7th, 2010
  

  Spain’s Oscar Freire for the third consecutive day finished 2nd on a stage of the Tour of Basque Country (north), today finishing just behind Italian Francesco Gavazzi, but has kept [...]

• Valverde Gets The Better Of Freire For Real
  April 6th, 2010
  

  MADRID, April 6, 2010 (AFP) – Controversial Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde out sprinted his compatriot Oscar Freire to win the second stage of the Tour of the Basque Country, a [...]

• Valverde Handed Win As Freire Relegated
  April 5th, 2010
  

  MADRID, April 5, 2010 (AFP) – Overall favourite Alejandro Valverde claimed a controversial victory in the first stage of the Tour of the Basque Country Monday after a sprinting infringement [...]

• Freire Surges To Milan-SanRemo Three Peat
  March 20th, 2010
  

  SANREMO, Italy, March 20, 2010 (AFP) – Spain’s Oscar Freire secured his third success in the Milan-Sanremo spring classic cycling race after a dramatic sprint finish here on Saturday. The [...]

• Oscar Freire Took Second Win In Vuelta Andalucia
  February 23rd, 2010
  

  Third stage of the Spanish stage race, Vuelta Andalucia Ruta del Sol between Marbella and Benahavis was characterized by Gomez Marchante (Andalucía-Cajasur) and Brice Feillu (Vacansoleil) who broke clear of [...]

• Freire Puts Off His Retirement, And Now Puts Giro As A Target
  January 5th, 2010
  

  Spain’s former three-time world road race champion Oscar Freire has begun the new year with two resolutions: racing the Giro d’Italia for the first time, and putting his plans to [...]

• Philippe Gilbert Wins Paris-Tours – Again
  October 11th, 2009
  

  TOURS, France, Oct 11, 2009 (AFP) – Belgian Philippe Gilbert, riding for Silence, on Sunday won the Paris-Tours semi classic race over 230km for the second straight year. Gilbert saw [...]

• Valverde, Freire and Sanchez Lead Spanish Rainbow Jersey Bid
  September 16th, 2009
  

  MADRID, Sept 16, 2009 (AFP) – Alejandro Valverde, Oscar Freire and Samuel Sanchez will lead Spain’s bid to win the men’s road race title at the world cycling championships next [...]

• Police Hunting Gunman After Tour Riders Shot
  July 18th, 2009
  

  by Justin Davis COLMAR, France, July 18, 2009 (AFP) – French police have lodged official complaints from Tour de France riders Oscar Freire and Julian Dean after the pair were [...]

• Air Gunman Hits Tour Riders Dean and Freire
  July 17th, 2009
  

  COLMAR, France, July 17, 2009 (AFP) – At least two riders suffered light injuries after being hit by shots fired from an airgun on the 13th stage of the Tour [...]

• Kreuziger Wins Tour of Romandie, As Freire Captures Final Stage
  May 3rd, 2009
  

  GENEVA, May 3, 2009 (AFP) – Czech rider Roman Kreuziger of the Liquigas team won the Tour of Romandie after the fifth and final stage which was won by Spaniard [...]

• Evans, Gilbert Silenced So Far In Tour de Romandie
  April 30th, 2009
  

  LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, Switzerland, April 30, 2009 (AFP) – Oscar Freire of Spain won the second stage of the Tour de Romandie on Thursday after a break way by teammates Cadel [...]

• Injured Freire Puts Return On Ice
  March 20th, 2009
  

  MILAN, Italy, March 19, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s triple world champion Oscar Freire was on Thursday forced to shelve his return to action which had been penciled in for the [...]

• An Injured Oscar Freire Pulls Out Of Milan-Sanremo
  March 3rd, 2009
  

  PARIS, March 2, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s Oscar Freire has pulled out of the Milan-Sanremo cycle race with injuries sustained when he fell during the Tour of California, his team, [...]

• Could There Be Another Historical Rainbow Jersey For Cycling Wizard Bettini
  September 27th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis VARESE, Italy, Sept 27, 2008 (AFP) – History-chasing Paolo Bettini and Oscar Freire are being tipped to cast a rainbow haze over the world championships on Sunday [...]

• Bettini & Freire To Face Off For Historic Rainbow Jersey Battle
  September 22nd, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis VARESE, Italy, Sept 22, 2008 (AFP) – The chance of making history by winning a third consecutive road race crown at cycling’s world championships this week has [...]

• As The Peloton Mulls Armstrong Return, Freire and Martinez Shine In Spain
  September 10th, 2008
  

  MADRID, Sept 10, 2008 (AFP) – Spain’s three-time world champion Oscar Freire of Rabobank won the 11th stage of the Tour of Spain on Wednesday, a 178 km ride from [...]

• Freire Looks To Secure Green Jersey On The Champs In Paris
  July 27th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis SAINT-AMAND-MONTROND, France, July 26, 2008 (AFP) – Spain’s Oscar Freire has perhaps more reason than most to hope for a top finish on the final stage of [...]

• Freire Getting Greener, With A Little Help From ‘Cav’
  July 19th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis DIGNES LES BAINS, France, July 19, 2008 (AFP) – Spaniard Oscar Freire should now have a better idea of whether he can keep the Tour de France [...]

• Freire Ends Cav’s Run As Evans Looks To The Alps
  July 19th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis DIGNES LES BAINS, France, July 19, 2008 (AFP) – Rabobank sprinter Oscar Freire of Spain ended the triumphant victory run of Britain’s Mark Cavendish by taking the [...]

• Freire Takes Stage 14, Evans Retains Yellow Jersey
  July 19th, 2008
  

  DIGNES LES BAINS, France, July 19, 2008 (AFP) – Spain’s Oscar Freire, riding for Rabobank, won the 14th stage of the Tour de France on Saturday, a 194km ride from [...]

• Cavendish Looks To History-Making Tour Stage
  July 16th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis FOIX, France, July 16, 2008 (AFP) – If team Columbia deliver their ‘train’ on time again for Britain’s Mark Cavendish, sprint rivals Oscar Freire and Robbie McEwen [...]