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Oh yeah some more race coverage August 5, 2007

Posted by Shamous in christian vande velde, clasica san sebastian, cycling, Juan Manuel Garate, leonardo Bertagnolli, Spain.
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Well today was the Clasica San Sebastian. It was a 225 kilometer race in the north of Spain. It included six climbs within the 225 kilometers. Leonardo Bertagnolli, with only 5 days of racing total this year, made an attack with 300 meters to go and edged out Juan Manuel Garate for the victory. Here is interesting stat about the race today 168 racers started today and only 117 finished and another 11 riders failed to make it in by the time limit. Well here is the top 10 finishers. They results were provided by velonews.com The highest placed American was Christian Vande Velde.
1. Leonardo Bertagnolli (I), Liquigas, 225km in 5:12:42
2. Juan Manuel Garate (Sp), Quick Step-Innergetic, same time
3. Alejandro Valverde (Sp), Caisse d’Epargne, at 0:18
4. Alessandro Ballan (I) Lampre, s.t.
5. Carlos Barredo (Sp), Quick Step-Innergetic, s.t.
6. Mikel Astarloza (Sp), Euskaltel-Euskadi, s.t.
7. Carlos Sastre (Sp), CSC, s.t.
8. Iñigo Landaluze (Sp), Euskaltel-Euskadi, at 0:28
9. Xavier Florencio (Sp), Bouygues Telecom, s.t.
10. Giovanni Visconti (I), Quick Step-Innergetic, at 0:37

A loss in Cycling and The new Slipstream! August 2, 2007

Posted by Shamous in Barloworld, christian vande velde, cycling, david millar, David Zabriskie, Robbie Hunter, Ryan Cox, Slipstream, Stuart O'Grady.
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Well today Barloworld’s rider Ryan Cox died from an apparent artery rupture. He just recently went under the knife for iliac artery problems. It was the same problem that Stuart O’Grady had in 2002. Well any ways Cox had successfully went through the surgery and was recovering. But due to financial needs he was forced to leave and return to South Africa, his native country. He had been help to afford the surgery by his close friend Robbie Hunter. But his funds ran dry and was force to leave. This Monday while in South Africa recovering he was rushed to the hospital and the doctors tryed to repair the artery. The doctors were unsuccessful and Ryan Cox died. He was only 28 years old. I do have some good news though. The all new U.S. based Slipstream team has now announced that David Millar, Christian Vande Velde, and David Zabriski will be joining the team in 2008 season.