The Tour de France may have denied Levi Leipheimer (Astana) the chance to compete, but he is back in force at the Vuelta, taking the win and the golden jersey in today’s 42.5km time trial event in Ciudad Real.
Leipheimer started the contest slowly, but sped up along the course to set the best overall time. [...]

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Yesterday, we saw a solo breakaway by Rik Verbrugghe of the Cofidis team, but he was not able to hold on all the way to the end. Today, five riders (Luis Laverde (CSF), Johannes Froehlnger (Gerolsteiner), David Millar (Slipstream Chipotle), Pavel Brutt (Tinkoff) and Francisco Perez Sanchez (Caisse d’Epargne)) were able to get away and stay away.
The group of [...]

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