Oscar Freire is a RAB rider from Spain, competing with the Rabobank Team in the 2006 Tour de France. LeTour is one of the Grand Tours in road bicycle racing and is part of the Triple Crown of Cycling.
Oscar Freire of Spain (R) and Rabobank vies for the finish line against Thor Hushovd on stage 6 of 2009 Tour de France from Gerona to Barcelona on July 9, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. (Getty Images) more pics » Three-time world champion Oscar Freire didn't quite have enough power to out-sprint Thor Hushovd today. Hushovd took the win for Stage 6, with Freire there at the finish line. Read Full Story
Last year, Freire won Stage 2. Not this time. 2007's stage 2 goes to Steegmans. Gert Steegmans won the second stage, followed by his teammate and captain Tom Boonen in second Quickstep hammered today! Steegmans and Boonen won by a big margin ahead of Filippo Pozzato , Robert Hunter , Romain Feulli, Robbie McEwen , Erik Zabel , Heinrich Haussler, Oscar Freire and Sebastien Chavanel . Read Full Story
Mark Cavendish of Great Britain. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) more pics » Mark Cavendish of Great Britain dominated another sprint finish to win the sixth stage of the Tour of Switzerland on Thursday, while Tadej Valjavec of Slovenia retained the overall lead. Cavendish finished the 111-mile ride from Oberriet to Bad Zurzach in 4 hours, 18 minute, 26 seconds. Three-time world champion Oscar Freire of Spain was second and Italy's Francesco Gavazzi was third. Valjavec finished safely... Read Full Story
MADRID : Spain’s three-time world champion Oscar Freire of Rabobank won the 11th stage of the Tour of Spain on Wednesday, a 178 km ride from Calahorra to Burgos, as Egoi Martinez of Euskaltel retained the overall lead.
He surprised everyone by covering the distance in four hours, 19 minutes and 28 second.
Martinez leads US racer Levi Leipheimer by 11 seconds and has a 32sec lead over favourite and last year’s Tour de France champion Alberto Contador.
Freire just edged out Belgian Tom... Read Full Story
Oscar Freire of Spain and riding for Rabobank rides to 16th place in the Prologue of the AMGEN Tour of California on February 14, 2009 in Sacramento, California. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Oscar Freire (Getty Images) more pics » Read Full Story
Oscar Freire won his second stage of the 2006 Tour De France today. He beat out impressive final sprints from McEwen , Boonen and Zabel to take home the win for Rabobank . This stage had a few intermediate sprints and no major climbs. But up next, we start into the mountains...
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Oscar Freire of Spain won the fifth stage of the Tour de France in Caen
in a great sprint finish. He held off Tom Boonen and jumps to 3d
place overall.
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Usain Bolt said he had no intentions of playing professional football in the United States, and apparently he has no intention of testing his speed against the NFL's best either.
