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Lance Armstrong may just have been testing his legs, but no one in the Tour Down Under peloton was going to see how far up the road he could get.
The 7-time Tour de France winner attacked with Australian Under-23 champion Jack Bobridge about 25 miles from the finish of Stage 2 in Stirling. They got away for about a minute before they were reeled back in.
What remained in the 90-mile stage was a series of attacks and attempts to control the sprint before QuickStep catapulted sprinter Allan Davis, above, across the finish line on Wednesday in Australia …
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Quick Step sprinter wins Stage 2 at 2009 Tour Down Under.
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King County touts bicycle commuting as a great way to reduce stress, increase health, and help the environment. It has been forced by economic conditions, however, to suspend an incentive program for its own bike commuting workers downtown.
County employees who work outside of downtown Seattle can continue to earn the $20 Commuter Bonus Plus voucher for any month in which they bike bike, carpool or walk to work more than half their work days or half of their commute miles.
The county announced at its employee transportation website that the King County Council has postponed extending those $20 vouchers to employees who walk or ride their bikes to work in downtown Seattle. …
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Picking up where he left off last year, defending Tour Down Under champion Andre Greipel won Stage 1 of this year's edition in a hard-fought sprint.
Greipel's Columbia teammates drove the pace at the end of the 89-mile stage. Unlike Sunday's results in the Classic, however, Greipel held off his challengers at the finish line.
Comeback cyclist Lance Armstrong finished in the pack, in 120th place, but only 11 seconds down. Earlier he had said his main goal was to not get dropped on the day's two King of the Mountains climbs. He survived unscathed …
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Team Columbia… Winner of 2008 Tour Down Under
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Stage 1 of the Tour Down Under is an 89-mile (140km) race from Norwood to Mawson Lake, running from approximately 11 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. Tuesday, South Australia time. It features two King of the Mountain climbs and two intermediate sprints.
Times in the U.S. are:
Start: 7:30 p.m. Monday (Eastern); 4:30 p.m. (Pacific)…
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Are you fired up? Are you ready to go? If so, then you certainly have to give props to the Washington Area Bicyclist Association for rising to the occasion of the Obama Presidential Inauguration on Tuesday.
As some 2 million people are expected to attend the event on at the National Mall on Tuesday, the best way to get into and out of the city will be by walking or bicycling
WABA is providing bicycle valet parking to inauguration visitors on Tuesday and directions on the best way to get around town. Check out the WABA's America Bikes to the Inauguration page.
WABA's two, free valet bicycle parking areas will be open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at …
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Tenacious sprinter won his fifth classic for Tour Down Under.
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Lance Armstrong marked his return to professional cycling firmly entrenched in the peloton, safely surrounded by his Astana teammates as he completed his first pro cycling race in 3 1/2 years.
Meanwhile home-country hero Robbie McEwen won the Cancer Council Classic on Sunday, the fifth time the cyclist has won the criterium that introduces Australia's Tour Down Under, which starts Tuesday.
A record 138,000 spectators showed up at Rymill Park in Adelaide to watch the 51km criterium that lasted a little more than an hour. Armstrong's return to pro cycling has been credited with the unprecedented interest in the 11th edition of the Tour Down Under …
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