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The big news for today is the announcement of the teams that have been invited to the Tour de France. As expected, Astana has been excluded and defending champ Alberto Contador will be blocked out. Rabobank, who kicked out Michael Rasmussen during the race over lying about his whereabouts will be back.

The ASO says that Astana [...]

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In the TOC’s first mountain stage, we saw defending TOC champion Levi Leipheimer (Astana) working with Robert Gesink (Rabobank) to take the overall lead away from Tyler Farrar. Farrar, incidentally, dropped out of the race early in the stage due to trouble with a stomach virus.
Today’s stage rolled out in the new starting city of [...]

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In a rain-soaked day, Tom Boonen takes the stage win, while Tyler Farrar takes advantages of time bonuses to step into the leader’s jersey.
Most of the riders would probably have preferred to spend the day in their comfy buses rather than brave the rain and temperatures under 50 F. The first several kilometers of the [...]

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