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• Yellow Jersey Champion Gets A Taste Of The Cobbles
  April 27th, 2010
  

  AUBRY-DU-HAINAUT, France, April 27, 2010 (AFP) – Tour de France champion Alberto Contador Tuesday took to the treacherous cobbled roads of northern France that he admitted could dent his bid [...]

• Contador Unfazed Of An Armstrong Challenge
  January 31st, 2010
  

  VIENNA, Jan 30, 2010 (AFP) – Tour de France champion Alberto Contador insists the thought of having seven-time winner Lance Armstrong as his main rival in this year’s race is [...]

• Britain’s Sky Hail ‘Dream’ Debut
  January 18th, 2010
  

  ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan 18, 2010 (AFP) – Team Sky on Monday hailed a “dream” debut on the professional cycling tour as they aim to produce Britain’s first ever Tour de [...]

• Armstrong Still In Search For That “Magic Ratio”
  January 18th, 2010
  

  Lance Armstrong admitted on Monday he still lacked the “magic ratio” to leave riders trailing after failing to convert a promising breakaway in the Tour Down Under’s build-up race. Armstrong [...]

• Pereiro To Return To Tour Down Under
  December 14th, 2009
  

  2006 Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro will compete with his new Astana team at the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under in January. Santos Tour Down Under Race Director, Mike [...]

• Pereiro Joins Astana
  December 8th, 2009
  

  PARIS, Dec 8, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s Oscar Pereiro, a former Tour de France winner, has signed a one-year contract with Astana, the Kazakh team announced on Tuesday. The move [...]

• Former Champion Pereiro Abandons Tour
  July 11th, 2009
  

  SAINT-GIRONS, France, July 11, 2009 (AFP) – Spaniard Oscar Pereiro, the Tour de France winner in 2006, abandoned the race during the eighth stage from Andorre-la-Vieille to Sain-Girons on Saturday. [...]

• I Thought I Was Going To Die, Admits Oscar Pereiro
  July 22nd, 2008
  

  MADRID, July 22, 2008 (AFP) – Spain’s 2006 Tour de France champion Oscar Pereiro admitted Tuesday that he thought he was going to die after a spectacular fall during the [...]

• Oscar Pereiro Has Big Crash In The Alps And Suffers Shoulder Injury
  July 20th, 2008
  

  Spain’s 2006 champion Oscar Pereiro suffered shoulder injuries after crashing spectacularly out of the 15th stage of the Tour de France here on Sunday. According to a first official diagnosis [...]

• Alejandro Valverde of Caisse d’Epargne To Be Helped By Former Tour de France Champion
  June 30th, 2008
  

  PARIS, June 30, 2008 (AFP) – Spain’s Alejandro Valverde, one of the favourites for next month’s Tour de France, has the distinction of a former champion helping him in his [...]

• Plaza makes Benfica work as Mirco wins fourth stage
  February 29th, 2008
  

  MADRID, Feb 29, 2008 (AFP) – Former Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro fell victim to a determined chasing peloton Friday before Italian Lorenzetto  Mirco took out a well-deserved sprint [...]