Tom Boonen

Tom Boonen

Tom Boonen is a professional cyclist competing in the Tour de France. LeTour is one of the Grand Tours in road bicycle racing and is part of the Triple Crown of Cycling.

 
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Robbie McEwen won the first stage of the 2007 Tour de France. The first stage was a flat flat 126-mile route out to flat Canterbury -- and it came down to a massive sprint.  Robbie McEwen's final time was 4 hours, 39 minutes, 1 second and Robbie was followed by Norway's Thor Hushovd was second and Belgium's Tom Boonen. Read Full Story
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Gert Steegmans has won the second regular stage of the Tour de France. Steegmans beat his captain Tom Boonen in the final sprint. But Team CSC rider Fabian Cancellara still maintains his overall lead. Read Full Story
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Boonen beat Roger Hammond (Team Cervelo) and Tyler Farrar (Team Garmin) after having demonstrated from the very first kilometres of the race just how badly he wanted this win. For the full story, go to http://www.bikeworldnews.com Read Full Story
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Former cycling world champion Tom Boonen attends a press conference at Quickstep Headquarters on June 11, 2008.in Wielsbeke, Belgium. Boonen gave a press conference after cocaine allegations. (Getty Images) more pics » Tour de France organizers banned former world champion Tom Boonen from next month's race after the Belgian rider tested positive for cocaine for the second time in less than year. The 28-year-old Boonen's latest positive test came in April. The Quick Step team rider previously tested positive for the drug in May 2008 and was banned by Tour organizers from last year's event. "Following Tom Boonen's recent test, after a first test ... Read Full Story
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Tom Boonen of Belgium and riding for Quick Step rides to seventh 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 *** Tom Boonen (Getty Images) more pics » Belgian cycling star Tom Boonen has been banned from competing in the Tour de France following his positive drug test for cocaine, organisers ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation) announced on Thursday. The 28-year-old tested positive for cocaine in April, less than a year after he first tested positive for the drug in May 2008. The Quick Step rider, the winner ... Read Full Story
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Former world champion Tom Boonen has tested positive for cocaine, Belgian judicial authorities confirmed on Tuesday. The Paris-Roubaix winner tested positive during an out-of-competition control carried out by the ministry of the Flemish Community ...  
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By Bryn Lennon, Getty Images Sport Tom Boonen is a cross between a sprinter and a strong cobbled classics rider. He’s a multiple winner of both major cobbled classics, Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders. He’s also won six stages of the Tour de France along with the green points jersey in the Tour and the rainbow jersey of World Champion. Add to that most of the other cobbled races, Gent-Wevelgem, Grote Scheldeprijs, Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne...  
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Quick Step's Tom Boonen won the third stage of the Franco-Belge stage race on Saturday in a sprint finish ahead of England's Roger Hammond (Cervélo TestTeam) and American Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Slipstream). Farrar continues to hold the overall race lead after winning the first two stages in the race which finishes Sunday at Tournai.  
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Belgian Philippe Gilbert (Silence-Lotto) on Sunday won Paris-Tours for the second straight year. Gilbert beat compatriot Tom Boonen and Slovenia's Borut Bozic (Vacansoleil) in a three-man dash for the line in the 230km semi-classic. Italian Filippo Pozzato (Katusha) finished fourth with Spaniard Oscar Freire fifth, some 20 seconds off the leading trio. For Gilbert the win brought a measure of revenge after Boonen pipped him to the Belgian...  
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Boonen Tom COPIE INTERDITE Copyright © 2005-2009 Fotoreporter Sirotti Italia - Tutti i diritti riservati.www.sirotti.it Cliquable. Farrar Tyler COPIE INTERDITE Copyright © 2005-2009 Fotoreporter Sirotti Italia - Tutti i diritti riservati.www.sirotti.it Tom Boonen a remporté la troisième étape [...]  
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