...147-mile stage between Saint-Flour and Albi, France, retained a seven-minute, 44-second lead over Spaniard Abraham Olano. He said earlier Saturday that he was happy letting other cyclists battle it out between themselves -- as long as...
...finished almost eight minutes back today and lost the yellow jersey. Ullrich now has a 2:38 lead over Virenque. Abraham Olano is third. His victory made the 23-year-old German one of the favorites to win the race which ends in Paris July...
...behind the winner. This was the first victory for a Spaniard on the Tour since 1997 when Extebarria's team leader, Abraham Olano, won a stage. Extebarria dedicated his victory to French teammate Laurent Jalabert, the world's No. 1 rider...
...followed by France's Christophe Moreau, 2 minutes, 5 seconds behind. Overall, Moreau is second, followed by Abraham Olano of Spain and Australia's Stuart O'Grady. Estonia's Jaan Kirsipuu had been the overall leader but dropped to...
...Tour a wide-open race, despite the presence of Riis. A big challenge for the eventual champion could come from Abraham Olano from Spain, who was billed as Indurain's successor. Indurain thought so highly of Olano that Indurain worked to...
...still belongs to Swiss rider Alex Zulle, who won the opening time trial on Saturday. He has a two-second lead over Abraham Olano of ONCE-Deutsche Bank. RUNNING: Enrique Montiel and Patricia Jardon of Mexico beat an international field of 14...
...Walls. "There's no reason, it's unexplainable." Walls rode the colt to his Queen's Plate victory. CYCLING: Abraham Olano of Spain won Friday's individual time trial to extend his overall lead in the Tour of Spain cycling race. Olano...
...been 7 minutes, 47 seconds behind Armstrong. But he also made up ground, and is now 7:26 off the lead. Spain's Abraham Olano dropped from second to eighth place. Armstrong battled Zulle and Virenque late in the race. With less than 6 miles...
...is only seven seconds behind Zabel at No. 2 in the overall standings. Moncassin was third overall, Spain's Abraham Olano fourth, France's Laurent Jalabert fifth, and the United States' Bobby Julich sixth. Jan Ullrich, last year's...
...simply did better. In the overall standings, Ullrich now has a lead of 5:42 over Virenque, and eight minutes over Abraham Olano of Spain in third, a second ahead of Riis. The riders have four days in the Alps starting Saturday with the climb...
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