Kim Kirchen

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

Kim Kirchen of Team Columbia Highroad. Kim Kirchen of Luxembourg won the 7th stage of the Tour of Switzerland, a 204 kilometer ride from Bad Zurzach to Vallorbe.  Roman Kreuziger and  Linus Gerdemann took second and third place respectively. Tadej Valjavec is still the overall race leader and was only a short distance behind Kirchen.   Fabian Cancellara also remains high in the overall standings. Many are watching the Tour of Switzerland as a sneak peak into what's to come with the Tour de France, which kicks off in just a few weeks. Read Full Story

Final results are in and Kim Kirchen has secured 7th place in the general classifications.  Congrats to Kirchen and T-Mobile Team! 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 ... Read Full Story

Here's the general classification after Stage 11. Kim Kirchen is only 5 minutes behind the leader, Michael Rasmussen.  There's still 9 stages to go and a lot of changes can happen in the later half of the Tour de France. General Classification after Stage 11 1 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne +2.35 3 Iban Mayo Diez (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir +2.39 4 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor - Lotto +2.41 5 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Discovery Channel +3.08 6 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC +3.39 7 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Astana +3.50 8 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel ... Read Full Story

The quest for the yellow jersey continues. Here are the standings after Stage 8 f the 2008 Tour de France. Rank Name Team Time Gap 1 Kim KIRCHEN THR 32h26'34'' 00'' 2 Cadel EVANS SIL 32h26'40'' 06'' 3 Stefan SCHUMACHER GST 32h26'50'' 16'' 4 Christian VANDEVELDE TSL 32h27'18'' 44'' 5 Denis MENCHOV RAB 32h27'37'' 1'03'' 6 Alejandro VALVERDE GCE 32h27'46'' 1'12'' 7 David MILLAR TSL 32h27'48'' 1'14'' 8 Stijn DEVOLDER QST 32h27'55'' 1'21'' 9 Oscar PEREIRO SIO GCE 32h27'55'' 1'21'' 10 Thomas LÖVKVIST THR 32h27'55'' 1'21'' 11 Samuel SANCHEZ EUS 32h28'01'' 1'27'' 12 Carlos SASTRE CSC 32h28'08'' 1'34'' 13 Frank SCHLECK CSC 32h28'30'' 1'56'' ... Read Full Story