Tom Boonen

...first-time stopover they have had. An estimated 25,000 fans packed the streets of Old Town Clovis on Feb. 18 to watch Mark Cavendish of Great Britain outsprint Tom Boonen of Belgium for the stage victory. Seven-time Tour de France winner...

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...he's slowed with the years. Tour organizers were forced to tinker with the full rider list until the last day Friday after French sports authorities ordered them to let Belgian sprint star Tom Boonen compete. Before a French Olympics...

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...longest stage in the event a from Visalia to Paso Robles in 5 hours, 7 minutes and 28 seconds. He beat Tom Boonen for the second straight day. Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, who began the day in fourth place, finished...

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...wrong with him about respect." SPRINTER ELIGIBLE: Belgian cyclist Tom Boonen of the Quick Step team was cleared to compete after winning his appeal of a ban for testing positive for cocaine Articles The face of cycling has...

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...of Boonen leaked over the weekend, Lance Armstrong defended his former teammate. "I feel for him. I know Tom because he was on this team. To me, this is more of a social situation than a sporting issue and I think we have to address it...

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...address it from a social standpoint," Armstrong said. "Look, Tom Boonen is not the only guy in the world that has that temptation, so I wish him my best and hope he rights the ship." Boonen's therapy will last at least a year, with weekly...

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...of Thursday's Stage 5, at 134.5 miles the longest of the race. For the second day in a row, Mark Cavendish of Columbia-Highroad outsprinted Quick Step's Tom Boonen for the win. Leipheimer retained his 24-second lead over Columbia-Highroad's...

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...to be a mere hors d'oeuvre for his success in taking four stages of the Tour de France. Only the absence of suspended Tom Boonen, the world's No1 sprinter, placed the tiniest of question marks against those wins, but a fit and firing Boonen...

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...British Grand Prix. Tour de France organizers banned former world champion Tom Boonen from next month's race after the Belgian rider tested positive for cocaine for the second time in less than a year. . . . Lance Armstrong will be...

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