In spite of struggling through Friday's Tour de France stage, pre-race favorite Alexander Vinokourov will definitely start on Saturday as the peloton enters the Alps.
The Astana team director was not so sure about Vino's teammate Andreas Kloden, who is suffering from a hairline fracture on his tailbone. …
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Belgian cyclist Tom Boonen ended a two-year dry spell at the Tour de France on Friday, winning Stage 6 in a mass sprint in Bourg-en-Bresse as Fabian Cancellara completed the first week still in yellow.
Boonen hadn't won a stage since early in the 2005 Tour, when he won two (he has 5 career). It looked like the sprinter might win Stage 2 in Ghent, Belgium, on Monday, but he came in second to teammate Gert Steegmans.
“At last another victory. You need so much luck,” Boonen told reporters after the victory.
Meanwhile the riding wounded — Alexander Vinokourov, Andreas Kloden (both Astana) and Benjamin Noval (Discovery Channel) – finished the stage …
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Seattle area cycling fans gave a warm welcome Thursday to Floyd Landis at perhaps his best appearance so far on a cross-country book tour to promote “Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France.”
“You guys in Seattle got 'em all beat. Even better than Lancaster, Pennsylvania,” Landis told me as he neared the end of a 1-1/2 hour session signing books (and shirts, and posters, and a bike).
Maybe he was just playing to the locals, but he did fill a room adjacent to Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park with some 500 cycling fans, many fresh off their bikes, who gave him a standing ovation when he entered. ……
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Floyd Landis answered questions before signing books in Seattle.
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July 13, 2007
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Poses during signing for Postively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France.
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July 13, 2007
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