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| x Discovery Channel |
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Discovery Channel (formerly The Discovery Channel) is an American satellite and cable TV channel (also delivered via IPTV, terrestrial television and internet television in other parts of the world), founded by John Hendricks and distributed by...
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| x Giro d'Italia |
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The Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy), also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy. It is one of the three Grand Tours, and is...
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| x Vuelta a España |
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The Vuelta a España (English: Tour of Spain) is a three-week road bicycle racing stage race that is one of the three "Grand Tours" of Europe and part of the UCI World Ranking calendar.
First held in 1935 and annually since 1955, the Vuelta runs for...
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| x Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team |
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Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team (UCI Team Code: DSC) was a United States-based professional road bicycle racing team. It was the continuation of the 2004 U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team. Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour de France winner, was...
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| x Team Columbia-HTC |
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Team Columbia-HTC (UCI team code:THR) is a professional cycling team competing in international road bicycle races. In June 2009, the team announced a three year sponsorship of the team with HTC. Starting with the 2009 Tour de France, the team began...
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| x Team Astana |
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Astana (UCI team code: AST) is a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Astana group, a coalition of state-owned companies from Kazakhstan and named after its capital city Astana. Astana attained UCI ProTeam status in its inaugural...
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| x Dauphiné Libéré |
The Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré is an annual cycling road race, run over eight stages in the Dauphiné region in France during the first half of June. It is organised by the Dauphiné Libéré newspaper. Along with the Tour de Suisse, the Dauphiné...
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| x Crédit Agricole |
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Crédit Agricole (UCI Team Code: C.A) was a French professional cycling team managed by Roger Legeay and sponsored by the French bank, Crédit Agricole, since 1997. Before 1997 the team was known as GAN. Since 2005, the team is one of the 20 that...
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| x Tour de Georgia |
The Tour de Georgia is a U.S. professional cycling stage race across the state of Georgia. The race began in 2003 and has been contested six times. It is one of the three events in North America ranked as Hors Classe (2.HC) stage race events by the...
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| x Team Saxo Bank |
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Team Saxo Bank (UCI Team Code: SAX) is a professional cycling team from Denmark which competes in the road bicycle racing series the UCI ProTour. The team is owned and managed by former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis, under the management of his...
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| x Johan Bruyneel |
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Johan Bruyneel (born August 23, 1964, Izegem, Belgium) is a former road bicycle racer in professional cycling and a directeur sportif for UCI ProTeam Astana. Retiring from racing in 1998, he became director of US Postal (later known as Discovery...
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| x Team Euskaltel-Euskadi |
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Euskaltel–Euskadi (UCI Team Code: EUS) is a professional road bicycle racing team. The team is commercially sponsored, but also works as an unofficial Basque national team and is partly funded by the Basque Government. Its riders are either Basque,...
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| x Team Caisse d'Epargne |
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Caisse d'Epargne (UCI Team Code: GCE) is professional road bicycle racing team which participates in the UCI ProTour and has achieved twelve General Classification (GC) victories in Grand Tours. The title sponsor, Caisse d'Epargne, is a French semi...
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| x Team Cofidis |
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Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne (UCI team code: COF) is a French professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by a money-lending company, Cofidis. It was started in 1996 by Cyrille Guimard the former manager of Bernard Hinault, Greg LeMond and...
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| x Team Française des Jeux |
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Française des Jeux (UCI team code: FDJ) is a French cycling team, named for its title sponsor, the French national lottery. Sponsorship of the team began in 1997. The team was named FDJeux.com in 2003 and 2004, then renamed Française des Jeux,...
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| x Team Bbox Bouygues Telecom |
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Bbox Bouygues Telecom (UCI team code: BBO) is a professional road bicycle racing team that competes on the UCI ProTour. Its sponsor, Bouygues Télécom, is a French mobile phone company. In previous years, the team was known as Brioches La Boulangère,...
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| x Team Rabobank |
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Rabobank (UCI Team Code: RAB) is a professional bicycle racing team, sponsored by the Rabobank. The team consists of three sections: ProTeam (the UCI ProTour team), Continental (a talent team racing in the UCI Europe Tour), and Cyclo-cross. The team...
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| x Team Gerolsteiner |
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Gerolsteiner (UCI Team Code: GST) was a German road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour. It was sponsored by the mineral water company Gerolsteiner Brunnen and Specialized.
The team was founded in 1998 with manager Hans-Michael Holczer and sports...
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| x Team Liquigas |
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Liquigas-Doimo (UCI Team Code: LIQ) is an Italian professional road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour. The current title sponsor is Liquigas, a provider of liquified gas products in Italy. The second sponsor, Doimo, is an Italian furniture...
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| x Team Quick Step |
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Quick Step (UCI Team Code: QST) is a Belgian UCI ProTour cycling team led by team manager Patrick Lefévère. The directors are Rik Verbrugghe, Davide Bramati, Wilfried Peeters, Rik Van Slycke and Luca Guercilena. The mechanics are Jeanick Verstraete...
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| x Footon-Servetto |
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Fuji-Servetto (UCI team code: FUJ) is a Spanish road bicycle racing team, located in Cantabria, which is part of the UCI ProTour. Established as Saunier Duval-Prodir in 2004, the team has had success in one-day races such as Clásica de San Sebastián...
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| x Tour de Romandie |
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The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI ProTour. It runs in the old Romandie region, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. It began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year celebration of the Swiss Cycling.
The race...
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| x Team Ag2r-La Mondiale |
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Ag2r – La Mondiale (UCI team code: ALM, formerly AG2R Prévoyance) is a French cycling team with UCI ProTour team status. Its title sponsors are the Ag2r Group, which is a French-based interprofessional insurance and supplementary retirement fund...
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| x Team MILRAM |
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Team Milram (UCI team code:MRM) is a German (formerly Italian) pro cycling team, participating at the UCI ProTour.
The pro cycling team was founded in the beginning of 2006, taking over the UCI-ProTour-license of Team Domina Vacanze. The main...
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| x Amgen Tour of California |
The Tour of California is a professional cycling stage race on the UCI America Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour that debuted on February 19, 2006. The annual eight-day race covers between 650-700 miles (1,045 - 1,126 km) throughout California ...
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| x Team Lampre-N.G.C. |
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Lampre-N.G.C. (UCI team code: LAM) is an Italian road bicycle racing team competing in the UCI ProTour. It was known in 2005 as Lampre-Caffita, a fusion of the previous Lampre and Saeco teams. Lampre is an Italian manufacturer of prefinished steel...
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| x Directeur sportif |
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A directeur sportif (French for sporting director, although the original French term is often used in English-language media; plural directeurs sportifs) is a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event. At professional level,...
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| x Team Agritubel |
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Agritubel Pro Cycling Team (UCI Team Code: AGR) is a French professional road race cycling team. The team's title sponsor, Agritubel, is a worldwide provider and manufacturer of tubular metal products for cattle, livestock and farming.
Agritubel...
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| x Barloworld |
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Barloworld (UCI Team Code: BAR) are a UCI Professional Continental cycling team.
Although the cycling team's parent company is South African and the team have maintained a strong South African identity, the registration of the team has moved,...
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| x Team Garmin-Transitions |
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Garmin-Transitions (UCI Code: GRM) is a UCI ProTeam established in 2007 out of the TIAA-CREF and 5280 development squads and based in the United States. The directeur sportif and general manager is Jonathan Vaughters, a former rider.
The team of...
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| x Team Rock Racing |
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Rock Racing (UCI Code: RRC) is a UCI Continental cycling team founded in 2007 by Michael Ball. The team is affiliated with Ball's Rock & Republic clothing . Rock Racing received media attention for their incredable cool clothing. The team's "bad boy...
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| x Racing bicycle |
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A racing bicycle, commonly known as a road bike, is a bicycle designed for road cycling according to the rules of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The UCI rules were altered in 1934 to exclude recumbent bicycles.
The most important things...
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| x Grand Tour |
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In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour refers to one of the three major European professional cycling stage races:
Collectively they are termed the Grand Tours, and all three races are similar in format being multi-week races with daily stages.
In...
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| x Paris-Roubaix |
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Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France near the Belgian frontier. Since its beginning in 1896 until 1967 it started in Paris and ended in Roubaix (hence the name); since 1968 the start city is Compiègne (about...
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| x Paris-Nice |
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Paris–Nice, "the race to the sun", is a professional cycling stage race held each March.
The first Paris–Nice was in 1933 when the winner was Alfons Schepers from Belgium. The most successful cyclist in Paris–Nice was Seán Kelly from Ireland. He won...
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| x Lance Armstrong |
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Lance Edward Armstrong (born Lance Edward Gunderson on September 18, 1971) is an American professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam Radio Shack. He is also the founder and chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer...
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| x Levi Leipheimer |
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Levi Leipheimer (born October 24, 1973) is an American professional road bicycle racer who rides with UCI ProTeam Astana. He previously rode for Discovery Channel, Gerolsteiner, and Rabobank.
His major results are 1st overall in the 2009 Tour of...
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| x Alberto Contador |
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Alberto Contador Velasco (born 6 December 1982 in Pinto, Madrid) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Astana. He was the winner of the 2007 Tour de France with the Discovery Channel team, and the 2008 Giro d'Italia, the 2008...
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| x Miguel Indurain |
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Miguel Ángel Indurain Larraya (born 16 July 1964, Villava, Navarre) is a retired Spanish road racing cyclist. He is best known for winning the Tour de France from 1991 to 1995, becoming only the fourth person to win the event five times, and the...
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| x Eddy Merckx |
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Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (Flemish pronunciation: [ˈmerks]) (born 17 June 1945 in Meensel-Kiezegem, now part of Tielt-Winge, Flemish Brabant), better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional cyclist. The French magazine Vélo...
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| x Greg LeMond |
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Gregory James "Greg" LeMond (born June 26, 1961) is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States and a three-time winner of the Tour de France. He was born in Lakewood, California.
In 1986, LeMond became the first American cyclist...
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| x 2008 Tour de France |
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The 2008 Tour de France was the 95th Tour de France. The event took place from 5–27 July 2008. Starting in the French city of Brest, the tour entered Italy on the 15th stage and returned to France during the 16th, heading for Paris, its regular...
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| x Tour de Suisse |
The Tour de Suisse (English: Tour of Switzerland) is a UCI ProTour stage race held annually in June. The race debuted in 1933 and has evolved in timing, duration and sponsorship. With the Dauphiné Libéré, it is a proving ground for the Tour de...
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| x United States Postal Service |
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The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States...
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| x Mass-start road race |
All the riders start at the same time. This is different from a time trial where the riders are set off individually at specific time intervals.
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| x Tour de France |
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The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race that covers approximately 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi) throughout France and bordering countries. The race lasts three weeks and attracts cyclists from around the world. The race is broken into day-long...
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| x Bicycle helmet |
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A bicycle helmet is a helmet intended to be worn while riding a bicycle. They are designed to attenuate impacts to the cranium of a cyclist in falls while minimizing side effects such as interference with peripheral vision. There is an active...
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| x Cycling All-Rounder |
A racing cyclist who excels in both climbing and time trialing, and may also be a decent sprinter. In stage races, an all-rounder seeks a top-10 place in the General Classification. Eddy Merckx and Lance Armstrong were both notable all-rounders; Jan...
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| x Chris Horner |
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Christopher Horner (born October 23, 1971) is an American professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Astana. Originally from Bend, Oregon, Horner has been a dominating figure in the American road racing scene by winning the points standings in...
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| x Cycling domestique |
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A domestique is a road bicycle racer who works for the benefit of his team and leader. The French domestique translates as "servant". The word was coined in 1911, although such riders had existed before then.
Much of a cyclist's effort is to push...
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| x José Luis Rubiera |
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José Luis Rubiera Vigil (born 27 January 1973 in Santa Eulalia) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Astana. Rubiera won his first professional race at the 1997 Giro d'Italia, winning stage 19. His climbing ability was...
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| x Climbing specialist |
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A climbing specialist is a road bicycle racer who can ride especially well on highly inclined roads, such as those found among hills or mountains.
In a sustained climb, the average speed declines, the aerodynamic advantage of drafting is diminished...
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| x Yaroslav Popovych |
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Yaroslav Popovych (Ukrainian: Попович Ярослав, born January 4, 1980) is a Ukrainian cyclist with the UCI ProTour Astana. He was born in Drohobych, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Under-23 road race champion in 2001, Popovych turned professional in 2002...
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| x Cycling Super-Domestique |
A rider who specializes in steady, consistent riding, able to provide a wheel for the team leader for hours at a time. Sometimes the rider who is the G.C. rider for one important race will be repay the efforts of others in the team by playing this...
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| x Andreas Klöden |
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Andreas Klöden (born June 22, 1975) is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Astana. His major achievements include a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games and the second place in the 2004 Tour de France and 2006 Tour de France....
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| x UCI ProTour |
The UCI ProTour is a series of road bicycle races organised by the International Cycling Union (UCI). Created by Hein Verbruggen, former president of the UCI, it comprises a number of 'ProTour' cycling teams, each of whom are required to compete in...
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