Cycling: Spain’s Oscar Freire Wins 11th Stage

Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 12:42 pm under Sports News Cycling: Spain’s Oscar Freire Wins 11th Stage

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 Boonen on the line in a sprint battle for the finish on a day when the return of retired seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong to the sport was the talk of the peloton.

Written by: farrukh.khan

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