Haimar Zubeldia

Haimar Zubeldia

Haimar Zubeldia is a Tour de France cyclist riding for Team Astana. Le Tour de France is a long-distance stage race competition for professional cycling teams.

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Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland and Team Saxo Bank is helped into the yellow jersey on the podium at the end of stage five of the 2009 Tour de France from Le Cap d'Agde to Perpignan on July 8, 2009 in Perpignan, France. (Getty Images) more pics » Standings as of July 8th 2009: Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) in 15:07:49 Lance Armstrong (Astana) at 00:00 Alberto Contador (Astana) at 00:19 Andréas Klöden (Astana) at 00:23 Levi Leipheimer (Astana) at 00:31 Bradley Wiggins (Garmin - Slipstream) at 00:38 Haimar Zubeldia (Astana) at 00:51 Tony Martin (Columbia - HTC) at 00:52 David Zabriskie (Garmin - Slipstream) at ... Read Full Story
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Congrats to Vino - he held off Kirchen and Zubeldia for the Stage win. Photo: Reuters, Yahoo 1. Alexandre Vinokourov , of AST 2. Kim Kirchen , of TMO , with gap of 51.000'' 3. Haimar Zubeldia , of EUS , with gap of 51.000'' 4. Juan Jose Cobo Acebo , of SDV , with gap of 58.000'' 5. Juan Manuel Garate , of QSI , with gap of 2'14.000'' 6. David Arroyo , of GCE , with gap of 3'23.000'' 7. Bernhard Kohl , of GST , with gap of 4'25.000'' 8. Christian Vandevelde , of CSC , with gap of 4'25.000'' 9. ... Read Full Story
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Final results are in and Zubeldia has secured 5th place in the general classifications.  Congrats to Zubeldia and Team Euskaltel! Final General Classification 1 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 91.00.26 2 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto 0.23 3 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.31 4 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC 7.08 5 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 8.17 6 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 11.37 7 Kim Kirchen (Lux) T-Mobile Team 12.18 8 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 12.25 9 Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 14.14 10 ... Read Full Story
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Haimar Zubeldia is now in fifth place in the general classification because former leader Michael Rasmussen was forced out of the Tour amid scandals of doping and lying to team managers.  Rasmussen missed 3 random drug tests this year, and lied about his where-abouts during those tests.  Team Rabobank was forced to fire Rasmussen and remove him from the Tour - despite his first place standing and victory in Stage 16. So Contador is now the leader and the man to beat! General Classification after Stage 16 1 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel 3 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto 4 ... Read Full Story
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So far, Astana has announced that the following riders will be on it's Tour de France squad: Lance Armstrong Alberto Contador Andreas Kloden Levi Leipheimer Yaroslav Popovych Haimar Zubeldia This from the Associated Press : Lance Armstrong will be on Astana Cycling's final nine-rider roster for the Tour de France next month. Armstrong, a seven-time Tour winner, will be joined on the team by three-time Grand Tour winner Alberto Contador, Andreas Kloden, Levi Leipheimer, Yaroslav Popovych and Haimar Zubeldia. Three other riders from a list of seven will also earn spots on the roster for the Tour, which begins July 4 in Monaco. That ... Read Full Story
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Zubeldia wipeout

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The tug-of-war for the services of Alberto Contador seems to be finally nearing a conclusion. According to reports in the European media, the two-time Tour de France champion is looking more likely to stay with Astana. Whether that’s for one more season to fulfill his existing contract — or for a new, mega-contract worth a reported $12 million per season — remains to be seen. The Belgian newspaper Het Nieusblad has reported that Astana has...  
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