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Freire To Lead Katusha at Tour Down Under

November 30th, 2011| News, Road | No Comments

Freire To Lead Katusha at Tour Down Under

SYDNEY, Nov 30, 2011 (AFP) – Three-time world champion Oscar Freire will lead the Russian-registered Team Katusha in Australia’s Tour Down Under in January, organisers said on Wednesday. Race Director [...]

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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

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  • Valverde Gets The Better Of Freire For Real
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  • Valverde Handed Win As Freire Relegated
    April 5th, 2010

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

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

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

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  • Philippe Gilbert Wins Paris-Tours – Again
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    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

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  • 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

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  • Kreuziger Wins Tour of Romandie, As Freire Captures Final Stage
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    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

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

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

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