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Nascar: Talladega fights as Tony Stewart wins Sprint Cup race despite crossing the line second

Posted by admin in Monday, October 6th 2008   under: news    Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,    

Smith passed Stewart, but crossed the yellow line in doing so. Photograph: Jerry Markland/Getty Images for Nascar
Tony Stewart was the second driver to cross the line but still claimed his first win of the season at the Talladega Superspeedway.
With two crashes having depleted the field, Stewart led after the final restart but was challenged in [...]

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Olympics: Nicole Cooke wins gold for Great Britain in road race thriller

Posted by admin in Sunday, August 10th 2008   under: news    Tags: , , , , , , , , ,    

Nicole Cooke wins gold in the road race. Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images
Cyclist Nicole Cooke broke the British team’s Beijing medal drought in style today, overcoming a world-class field and pouring rain to win gold in the women’s road race.
Racing in the shadow of the Great Wall on the day that the rain that has [...]

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Olympics Beijing 2008: Cycling - Samuel Sanchez clinches road race gold for Spain

Posted by admin in Saturday, August 9th 2008   under: news    Tags: , , , , , , , , ,    

Competitors ride during the men’s cycling road race at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Photograph: Martin Bernetti/AFP
Spain’s incredible sporting summer took another surprising step when Samuel Sanchez added the Olympic road race gold medal to the country’s trophy cabinet, already overflowing after Carlos Sastre’s Tour de France victory, Alberto Contador’s win in the Giro d’Italia, [...]

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