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cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Juan Manuel Gárate and Dmitry Kozontchouk both extended their contracts with Rabobank for one year, the Dutch ProTour team announced. Spaniard Gárate, 33, saved the Tour de France this year for the team when he won the Mont Ventoux stage. His contract, which ran through 2010, will now go through the 2011 season. He joined Rabobank this year after three years with Quick Step. He turned...
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VeloNews (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Tour de France stage-winner Juan Manuel Garate will be part of Rabobank’s starting nine for the upcoming Vuelta a España. Garate, who won atop Mont Ventoux ahead of Tony Martin (Columbia-HTC), crashed during the Clásica San Sebastián earlier this month and broke a finger. He’s been able to recover in time and will be at the start line Saturday in Assen, Holland for...
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cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Juan Manuel Garate's hopes of competing in the Vuelta a España are back on track, three weeks after breaking his hand at the Clásica San Sebastián. The Spaniard has told his team, Rabobank, that he has returned to full training and will be considered for the Dutch team's final Vuelta line-up, to be announced next week. "The choice [of team for the Vuelta a España]...
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cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
Juan Manuel Gárate of Rabobank broke a bone in his hand in a crash Saturday in the Clásica San Sebastián. It is expected to heal in time for him to start the Vuelta a España on August 29. Gárate, winner of Tour de France stage to Mont Ventoux, was descending the Jaizkibel in heavy rain with teammate Oscar Freire. Both went down, with Freire uninjured. Doctors took...
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cafevelo (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
First and second on stage 20 - Montelimar to Mont Ventoux.
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Worldcups-The latest sports feeds (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
Juan Manuel Garate’s stage victory was the only surprise on a horror-climb that left it “as you were” at the top of the general classification Good afternoon. With serious illness, a bad accident or some other unforeseen disaster being all that separate Spain’s Alberto Contador from winning this year’s Tour, today’s stage is all about the [...]
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tamilselvan1 | 07/26/2009
France - Nobody woke up Saturday morning expecting that Juan Manuel Garate might conquer Mont Ventoux. Epic climbs like this one on the penultimate day of the Tour de France, an unprecedented scheduling anomaly, really should produce a heroic victor.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
France - Nobody woke up Saturday morning expecting that Juan Manuel Garate might conquer Mont Ventoux. Epic climbs like this one on the penultimate day of the Tour de France, an unprecedented scheduling anomaly, really should produce a heroic victor....
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Bradley Wiggins rides into Paris this afternoon with England's best ever finish in the Tour de France – fourth – securely stowed away in his race jersey. The Londoner cracked but did not collapse completely on yesterday's interminable assault on the Mont Ventoux climb, finishing 10th on the stage won by Spaniard Juan Manuel Garate.
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Sporting reflections (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
In the end, the stage which the Tour de France organisers had set up to guarantee fireworks on the penultimate day of the race delivered little more than a succession of damp squibs. Sure, we saw the lead bunch quickly whittled down to just the main contenders. And yes, we did see a string of accelerations which repeatedly stretched and occasionally splintered the group. But there was never a truly...
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cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
Amets Txurruka and Alan Pérez eliminated on stage 19 Category 2 not enough to stop Mark Cavendish's fifth Bordry floats possibility that new products could be in use Schleck concedes defeat to Contador after Ventoux Schleck gives Ventoux fight, but misses Tour podium Juan Manuel Garate saves Tour de France for Rabobank Nibali set for seventh spot in this year's Tour de France Armstrong claims...
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tamilselvan1 | 07/26/2009
France - Nobody woke up Saturday morning expecting that Juan Manuel Garate might conquer Mont Ventoux. Epic climbs like this one on the penultimate day of the Tour de France, an unprecedented scheduling anomaly, really should produce a heroic victor.