Haimar Zubeldia

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

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 01:06 David Millar (Garmin - Slipstream) at 01:07 More pictures from Stage 5:Read Full Story

AFP - Lance Armstrong's RadioShack team insisted on Wednesday that experienced Spanish campaigner Haimar Zubeldia has not yet been ruled out of next month's Tour de France.Read Full Story

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...Read Full Story

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...Read Full Story