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Oscar Friere has the astonishing talent to make himself invisible in a race like Milan San Remo. That's quite a feat considering he's already won ‘La Classicissima’ three times and worn the ...

https://www.atwistedspoke.com/oscar-freire-the-invisible-man-of-milan-san-remo/

No radios, high excitement -- maybe the UCI got something right for once. It's wasn't one of  the favorites who won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad with a radio-controlled strategy. Nope, it was Sebastian...

https://www.atwistedspoke.com/langeveld-wins-omloop-by-centimeters/

It wasn't Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) or Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) or even Jakob Fuglsang (Leopard Trek) who won on the slopes of Jabal al Akhdhar. In point of fact, dad won. It was RObert Gesin...

https://www.atwistedspoke.com/gesinks-dad-a-winner-at-tour-of-oman-mountain-stage/

Race summery courtesy of Matt Goss: "The sprint was pretty crazy. Brownie took a few guys out I think and that kind of messed things up a bit," said Goss. The HTC-Highroad sprinter was apparently...

https://www.atwistedspoke.com/brown-breaks-box-bos-takes-second-win-in-oman/

Bos lands on feet in Oman. When Cervelo-Test team merged with the argyle diamond gang at Garmin, Theo Bos was one of the riders left hanging. The Dutch rider went straight home to Rabobank where'...

https://www.atwistedspoke.com/bos-rules-cavendish-in-oman/

Does Lars have a nickname? We're voting for "Sonic" as in Lars Sonic Boom because that's the way he hammered the prologue of the Duel in the Desert, the technical 2.5 kilometer test around Doha, ...

https://www.atwistedspoke.com/boom-wins-qatar-prologue-cavendish-hits-deck/

Let's see if this reads right because there's something odd: Denis Menchov beats World Champion Fabian Cancellara in a Vuelta time trial. No wait, Peter Velits beats Cancellara and Menchov in the...

https://www.atwistedspoke.com/cancellara-loses-vuelta-time-trial-world-stunned/

Is Denis Menchov getting feisty? Does he suddenly have a bee in his bonnet, a burr in his saddle, did he just accidently down a quart of Mexican hot sauce? We ask because Mr. Silent Assassin, the...

https://www.atwistedspoke.com/menchov-talks-vuelta-smack/

The Tour de France is over and the grades are in. Here's the Twisted Spoke marks for most of the big teams, with the rest to follow tomorrow when I read the last of the written essays. Garmin-Tra...

https://www.atwistedspoke.com/twisted-spoke-tour-de-france-report-card/

It's time to rate the prospects for those riders who with luck, alignment of planets, the form of their life and broken collarbones on everyone in front of them, could possibly win the tour and s...

https://www.atwistedspoke.com/twisted-tour-predictions-part-2-the-rest-of-the-best/