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Lance Armstrong is expected to close his 2009 season at this weekend’s Tour of Ireland, while Alberto Contador will pass on this weekend GP Ouest France-Plouay. More bicycle racing news, too…

Results for Stage 19 of the 2009 Tour de France. Mark Cavendish racks up his fifth stage win while the G.C. leaders sit in to build some strength for tomorrow’s attack on Mont Ventoux.

2006 Tour de France Osrcar Pereiro, who recently announced that he would be racing at the Tour Down Under, has confirmed for the Giro d’Italiia as well.
Caisse d’Eparge teammates Joaquim Rodriguez and David Arroyo have confirmed, but team leader Alejandro Valverde will skip the race to focus on the Tour de France.
(Radsport-News.com)

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Today’s stage is relatively short, just a little over 145 km from Las Rozas to Segovia. The route is nicely split with the day’s two category 1 climbs coming at km 45 and km 89 (the Puerto de Navacerrada and the Puerto de Navafria, respectively). From there, it’s basically downhill into Segovia, where there is a bit of an uphill finish. We’ll see how this affects the sprinters at the end of the race.
Paolo Bettini (Quick Step), Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) and Filippo Pozzato (Liquigas) all dropped out of the race overnight. …

Bike World News headquarters got waylaid by the remnants of Hurricane Ike yesterday afternoon, so there was no power, cable or phone. As a result, no race results.
Here’s the summary for Stage 14 (courtesy of CyclingNews.com): Spaniard Alberto Contador of Team Astana put a golden mark on this Vuelta a España with a counter-attack of Ezequiel Mosquera’s strong effort to arrive solo and win stage 14 atop the Puerto de San Isidro. He added further time into his overall classification lead with both Carlos Sastre and Alejandro Valverde dropped in the …

 
The race starts in less than a day. Here’s a preview of the Team Time Trial and other news:

VeloNews is predicting that the Giro may be the best race of the year. Defending champ Danilo di Luca (LPR Brakes) will be there, along with Contador (Astana, 2007 TdF winner), Denis Menchov (Rabobank, 2007 Vuelta winner), Paolo Bettini (Quickstep, 2007 World Champion), and former Giro winners Paolo Salvoldelli (LPR) and Gilberto Simoni (Diquigiovanni-Androni). Contador will joined by teammates Andreas Klöden and Levi Leipheimer, who are also believed to have a shot at the podium.
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