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by Justin DAVIS ISCHIA, Italy, May 05, 2013 (AFP) - Italian Salvatore Puccio took possession of the Giro d'Italia pink jersey from overnight leader Mark Cavendish on Sunday as Team Sky and race favourite Bradley Wiggins claimed their maiden team time trial win on a Grand Tour on the island of Ischia. Cavendish had sprinted to victory in the opening stage of the three-week race … [Read more...]
The BMC Racing Team came from behind to win the 14-kilometer team time trial Monday at the Tour of Qatar and successfully defend the overall lead of Brent Bookwalter, who won Sunday's opening stage. A Consistent Pace Knifing through the desert wind on their BMC timemachine TMR01s, five of the eight BMC Racing Team riders crossed the line together in 16 minutes and seven seconds, five … [Read more...]
Valkenburg, Netherlands, Sept 16, 2012 (AFP) - Belgian team Omega Pharma on Sunday won the team time trial title here at the world cycling road race championships. The team, led by German individual time trial champion Tony Martin, saw off US rivals BMC by 3sec over the 53.2km course in a new event for the championships. Helping Martin to victory were Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel, … [Read more...]
San Luis Obispo, CA - 29th July 2010 - After two second places in the last two years in the Vargada Team Time Trial, HTC-Columbia women's team head for the Swedish round of the World Cup determined to go one better. "Team time trials are one of our big strengths as a squad, so we're determined to 'set the record straight' and get that first place we've been close to getting in the last couple of … [Read more...]
by Justin Davis MONTPELLIER, France, July 8, 2009 (AFP) - Yellow jersey hopeful Cadel Evans was given an alarming reminder of the value of team work at the Tour de France Tuesday after a fourth stage which has severely dented his victory chances. On a team time trial over 39km Evans, the runner-up the past two editions, was one of several contenders to fall victim to Lance … [Read more...]
Lance Armstrong dramatically missed out on the yellow jersey by the slimmest of margins here on Tuesday after his Astana team smashed their rivals apart in the Tour de France's fourth stage time trial. Astana came over the finish line of the 39km race against the clock 40secs ahead of the Saxo Bank team of Fabian Cancellara, who began and finished the race in the yellow jersey. However … [Read more...]
by Justin Davis MONTPELLIER, France, July 7, 2009 (AFP) - Cadel Evans' hopes of heading into the Pyreneean stages of the Tour de France on a high took a knock Tuesday when his team performed disastrously on the fourth stage's team time trial. Evans' team finished the 39km team race against the clock, held on a tight and at times dangerous course, in a time of 49min 04secs, over a … [Read more...]
MONTPELLIER, France, July 7, 2009 (AFP) - Russian Tour de France contender Denis Menchov got off to the worst possible start in stage four's team time trial when he crashed at one of the early corners Tuesday. Menchov was the first of his nine-man Rabobank team to come crashing down as he went too fast into a left-hand bend only minutes into the extremely technical 39km course around … [Read more...]
LA GRANDE MOTTE, France, July 6, 2009 (AFP) - Britain's Mark Cavendish of the Columbia team won a dramatic third stage of the Tour de France here Monday as Lance Armstrong struck an unexpected first blow in the yellow jersey battle. Thanks to an unintentional but deadly turn of pace by Cavendish's Columbia team Armstrong moved up seven places from 10th to third overall at just 40sec off the … [Read more...]
LA GRANDE MOTTE, France, July 6, 2009 (AFP) - Lance Armstrong will Tuesday get reacquainted with the Tour de France team time trial, an exercise which played a small but important role in his seven yellow jersey triumphs. During reign on the race between 1999-2005 a team time trial was held six times, over an average distance of 64km, and Armstrong's team came out top on the past three … [Read more...]