CNN (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans and defending champion Denis Menchov will both not compete in this year's Tour of Spain, which starts on August 30 at Granada and finishes on September 21 in Madrid.
Sports - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
JAUSIERS, France (Reuters) - Russian Denis Menchov's hopes of winning the Tour de France suffered a blow when he lost ground in the 16th stage, a 157-km mountain ride won by Frenchman Cyril Dessel on Tuesday....
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
JAUSIERS, France (Reuters) - Russian Denis Menchov's hopes of winning the Tour de France suffered a blow when he lost ground in the 16th stage, a 157-km mountain ride won by Frenchman Cyril Dessel on Tuesday.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
JAUSIERS, France (Reuters) - Russian Denis Menchov's hopes of winning the Tour de France suffered a blow when he lost ground in the 16th stage, a 157-km mountain ride won by Frenchman Cyril Dessel on Tuesday.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
AUSTRALIAN Cadel Evans has all but discounted the threat presented to his yellow jersey ambitions by the CSC team of Tour de France leader Frank Schleck.The Silence-Lotto team leader, who lost the lead to Schleck after the first day of three in the Alps, instead believes Denis Menchov is the man capable of causing him most pain in Paris next Sunday. “Frank Schleck is in the best position,...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Instead, the Silence-Lotto team leader - who lost the lead to Schleck after Sunday's first day of three in the Alps - believes Russian Denis Menchov is the man capable of causing him most pain in Paris next Sunday. “Frank Schleck is in the best position, but I saw a very good Menchov yesterday,'' Evans said during the race's second rest day. “I've been racing against all of these...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... in 1989, Sastre finished second overall in his home race last year.With last year's champion Denis Menchov of Russia not participating, other challenges are likely to come from Italian Damiano Cunego and Spain's Alejandro Valverde, runner-up in 2006.The 3,133km-long tour has two tough days in the Pyrenees on stages seven and eight before approaching its toughest climb, the 12.5km...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... in 1989, Sastre finished second overall in his home race last year.With last year's champion Denis Menchov of Russia not participating, other challenges are likely to come from Italian Damiano Cunego and Spain's Alejandro Valverde, runner-up in 2006.The 3,133km-long tour has two tough days in the Pyrenees on stages seven and eight before approaching its toughest climb, the 12.5km...
Sports - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
CHOLET, France (Reuters) - Dutch team Rabobank made headlines for the wrong reasons on the last Tour de France and their apparent low profile this year, with discreet Russian Denis Menchov as leader, does not mean they should be overlooked. ...
Tour de France 2007 (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... Velde, Garmin-Chipotle, USA, @ 1:05 5. David Millar, Garmin-Chipotle, Great Britain, @ 1:37 6. Denis Menchov, Rabobank, Russia, @ 1:55 7. Cadel Evans, Silence-Lotto, Australia, @ 2:05 8. Sebastian Lang, Gerolsteiner, Germany, @ 2:19 9. Bernhard Kohl, Gerolsteiner, Austria, @ 2:21 10. George Hincapie, Columbia, USA, @ 2:28 General Classification, after Stage 20: 1. Carlos Sastre, CSC-Saxo...
Smithers MINNEAPOLIS (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
General classification after stage 17 1 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 74.39.03 2 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 1.24 3 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner 1.33 4 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 1.34 5 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 2.39 6 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team Garmin-Chipotle p/b H30 4.41 7 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse [...]
IOL (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
... (Spa/CSC) 87hrs 52min 52sec; 2 Cadel Evans (Aus/SIL) 0:58; 3 Bernhard Kohl (Aut/GST) 1:13; 4 Denis Menchov (Rus/RAB) 2:10; 5 Christian vande Velde (US/GAR) 3:05; 6 Frank Schleck (Lux/CSC) 4:28; 7 Samuel San chez (Spa/EUS) 6:25; 8 Kim Kirchen (Lux/COL) 6:55; 9 Alejandro Valverde (Spa/GCE) 7:12; 10 Tadej Valjavec (Slo/A2R) 9:05Best young riders (stage): 1 Gérald Ciolek (Ger/COL) 3hrs...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Paris - Out of 3,500 kilometers and three weeks of racing, the 2008 Tour de France was won in a split second at the foot of the race's most prestigious climb. Near the end of the 17th stage, 33-year-old Carlos Sastre boldly took off on his own up the 13.8-km climb to Alpe d'Huez, leaving in his wake Cadel Evans of Australia, Austria's Bernhard Kohl and the Russian Denis Menchov. It was...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Tour de France: Russian Denis Menchov's hopes of winning the Tour de France suffered a blow when he lost ground in the 16th stage, a 157-km mountain ride from Cuneo, Italy, to Jausiers won by Frenchman Cyril Dessel today.
CNN (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... Kohl also rode above expectation to retain third overall at one minute 20 seconds in arrears. Denis Menchov of Russia is fourth at two minutes. The big loser overall was Luxembourg's Frank Schleck, who was caught by his CSC teammate Sastre for three minutes, and slipped from second to sixth overall. Schumacher was backing up his win in the Tour's first time trial as he beat Fabian...
