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Weather Cooperates for Stage 2 of the Race, Which Marks the First Official Day of Racing SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (May 16, 2011) – Enthusiastic crowds welcomed riders to the finish of Stage 2 of the 2011 Amgen Tour of California in Sacramento this afternoon after beginning in Nevada City, California. For the second year in a row, the small Gold Rush town of Nevada City was host to the first … [Read more...]
NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES, France, March 8, 2011 - Australian sprint ace Matthew Goss won the third stage of the Paris-Nice race on Tuesday, a 202.5km ride from Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire to Nuit-Saint-Georges in Burgundy to take the leader's jersey. Goss edged out compatriot Heinrich Haussler and Russian Denis Galimzyanov in a sprint that saw one of the overall race favorites Peter Sagan of Slovakia … [Read more...]
PARIS, March 5, 2011 - Germany's Tony Martin and Peter Sagan of Slovakia will be among the in-form riders looking to capitalise on the relative lack of Spanish talent when the first major stage race of the season, Paris-Nice, kicks off on Sunday. Spanish riders have stamped their authority on the 'Race to the Sun', as the event is traditionally known, in recent years with Alberto … [Read more...]
Alessandro Ballan finished second for the BMC Racing Team Tuesday on the opening stage of the Giro di Sardegna. Tricky Finish Ballan said he was on the wheel of stage winner Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) but didn't want to take too many risks on the technical run-in to the finish of the 138-kilometer race. "Before the last corner, I tried to anticipate Sagan's sprint, but he was too fast," … [Read more...]
BAKERSFIELD, California, May 20, 2010 - Young Slovakian Peter Sagan won the fifth stage of the Tour of California on Thursday ahead of Australian Michael Rogers, who seized the overall leader's golden jersey from American David Zabriskie. The stage was marked by a crash involving American Lance Armstrong, who was forced to withdraw from the race. Armstrong received a cut under his … [Read more...]
GENEVA, April 28, 2010 - Young cycling hope Peter Sagan, riding for the Liquigas team, won the first stage of the Tour de Romandie on Wednesday and took over the yellow jersey. The Slovak rider pipped Italian Francesco Gavazzi (LAM) and Ireland's Nicolas Roche (ALM) in a mass sprint finish to the 176km stage held in warm summer weather over northwestern Switzerland's Jura hills. … [Read more...]
PINOTTI TAKES HTC-COLUMBIA'S THIRD STRAIGHT WIN IN TOUR OF ROMANDIE PROLOGUE San Luis Obispo, CA - 27th April 2010 - Marco Pinotti has taken HTC-Columbia's third victory in a row in the Tour de Romandie prologue, continuing a run of success in the Swiss race's opening stage that started with Mark Cavendish in 2008 and continued with Frantisek Rabon in 2009. Clad in the jersey of Italian … [Read more...]
AIX EN PROVENCE, France, March 12, 2010 (AFP) - Liquigas racer Peter Sagan won the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice race on Friday, a 157km ride from Pernes-les-Fontaines to Aix-en-Provence, as the 20-year-old notched his second success of the week. Astana star Alberto Contador retained the leader's yellow jersey after Sagan attacked two kilometres from the line to edge out Italian Mirco … [Read more...]
Slovakian youngster Peter Sagan of the Liquigas team won the shortened third stage of the Paris-Nice race in central France here on Wednesday. Sagan, 20, moved up to second place in the overall standings but Germany's Jens Voigt (Saxo Bank) assumed the leader's yellow jersey after finishing fourth in the 153-kilometre ride, which had been cut by 50km due to snow. "I hesitated at the … [Read more...]