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Robert Gesink and Bauke Mellema will spearhead Dutch cycling team Rabobank, as they attempt to carry their recent success into the Tour of Spain which starts with a time-trial in Pamplona on Saturday and runs until September 9 and the finale in Madrid.

Spaniard Luis Leon Sanchez on Tuesday won the San Sebastian classic for the second time, as the Rabobank rider finished seven seconds ahead of Australia's Simon Gerrans of Orica-Green Edge and Lotto-Belisol's Belgian cyclist Gianni Meersman after 234km of racing.

Former winner Alberto Contador will be supported by his trusty Spanish lieutenants as he bids for a second Tour of Spain title when the Vuelta gets underway in Pamplona on Saturday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Fourteen billion dollars goes a long, long way; it would buy you three U.S. aircraft carriers or six NASA rover missions to Mars. You could buy all of Queen Elizabeth's castles, as well as all the rolling royal estates that stretch across her island realm, and still have some cash left over. You might …

Garmin team chief Jonathan Vaughters has admitted to doping during his professional cycling career and called for stronger anti-doping legislation.

LONDON (AP) -- From Vino to Wiggo to a British team bent on perfection, there was no shortage of storylines at the London Olympics, and no lack of drama during the cycling program.

LONDON (Reuters) - Hosts Britain reasserted their domination in Olympic cycling with another awe-inspiring medal haul on the track although they failed to master the uncontrollable. The squad took the velodrome by storm in a spine-chilling atmosphere with Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy leading the charge with two golds while …

So that's it for this Live Report -- thanks for being with us during this momentous Games. LIVE REPORT ENDS.

Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps and Mo Farah delivered the signature performances of the Olympics as Great Britain shrugged off its grim economic worries to stage a memorable, record-breaking showpiece.

Of the many abiding images from the Olympics' cycling events, Bradley Wiggins sitting proudly on the throne at Hampton Court Palace waiting for gold could not have been more symbolically appropriate.

HADLEIGH, England (Reuters) - The man from Guam did not last very long at the Olympic cross country cycling race on Sunday but Derek Horton deserved a medal just for getting himself on the startline. The 39-year-old managed just two of the six laps on the undulating course overlooking the Thames Estuary before falling so …

HADLEIGH, England (Reuters) - Czech Jaroslav Kulhavy made a decisive move in the closing stages to claim the Olympic men's mountain bike title on Sunday after defending champion Julien Absalon of France suffered a game-changing early puncture. World champion Kulhavy produced an impressive ride on the seven 4.7-kilometre …

LONDON (Reuters) - Chris Hoy's tears of joy represented a defining moment of London 2012, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge said on Sunday. Rogge also acknowledged Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt as a "living legend" after his treble success in London replicated his success of Beijing four years …

HADLEIGH, England (Reuters) - Defending champion Julien Absalon of France pulled out of the Olympic men's mountain bike race after a puncture ruined his chances of clinching a third title in a row on Sunday. Absalon, the 2004 and 2008 champion and one of the pre-race favorites, withdrew from the race on the second of seven …

LONDON (Reuters) - Defending champion Julien Absalon of France has pulled out of the Olympic mountain bike race after he crashed in the first lap, organizers said on Sunday. Absalon, the 2004 and 2008 champion and one of the pre-race favorites, fell off his bike on a rocky descent halfway through the first of seven 4.7-kilometre …

LONDON (AP) -- Usain Bolt made himself a living legend - just ask him. Michael Phelps swam a last lap into history. A man ran on carbon blades. Two track stars and a long jumper produced perhaps the greatest night in British sports history.

LONDON (Reuters) - Every Olympic Games has its winners and losers, not just among the athletes and competing nations, who stand out from the crowd and take the praise or punishment as the host city steps into the limelight. Here are 10 of those who came away from London 2012 with a golden glow and 10 others who might be …

Usain Bolt made himself a living legend — just ask him. Michael Phelps swam a last lap into history. A man ran on carbon blades. Two track stars and a long jumper produced perhaps the greatest night in British sports history. Take a victory lap, London.

Svein Tuft of Canada, riding for Orica-GreenEdge, won the sixth stage of the Eneco Tour of the Low Countries on Saturday to take the leader's white jersey from Belgian home favourite Tom Boonen of OmegaPharma.

HADLEIGH, England (AP) -- Two-time defending Olympic champion Julien Absalon wants to make it three in a row. The Frenchman is peaking again and looks determined to make history in Sunday's mountain bike race, four days before celebrating his 32nd birthday.

LONDON (AP) -- The U.S. had a big lead when Carmelita Jeter got the baton for the anchor leg of the women's 4x100-meter relay.

LONDON (AP) -- After the British ruled the Olympic track cycling schedule, the once-dominant French team was left to question just about everything in its cycling program.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A federal judge had tough questions for U.S. anti-doping officials about the fairness of their effort to prove seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong cheated, grilling them at length in a hearing Friday.