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Tour of Ireland

In 2008, the five-stage, UCI 2.1 tour starts in Dublin and includes several difficult mountain stages before concluding in the City of Cork. Top teams Garmin-Chipotle and Columbia will be out for wins, with Columbia's ace sprinter Mark Cavendish and Garmin's Irish GC hope Daniel Martin likely to be crowd favorites.

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2008

2008

Sep. 3, 2008Coach Dirk Friel examines the power recording from Marco Pinotti's race-winning solo attack on Sunday.
On Sunday, three-time Italian time trial champion Marco Pinotti won the Tour of Ireland with a solo attack in the last 10k of the stage. The textbook ...
Aug. 31, 2008Stage 5: Pinotti wins Tour of Ireland as teammate Rabon takes final
Columbia put on a textbook display of team tactics at the Tour of Ireland, commanding the stage win and the overall victory on an aggressive final ...
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Aug. 30, 2008Stage 4: Downing sprints into yellow in Ireland
Russell Downing of the British squad Pinarello CandiTV captured the race lead with a winning sprint on stage 4 of the Tour of Ireland. Downing took ...
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Aug. 30, 2008Ben Delaney's Tour of Ireland Gallery - Stage 3

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Aug. 29, 2008Stage 3: Cav' pours an Irish triple
Alexander Kristoff followed last year’s successful script and launched an early sprint with 350 meters to go, but Mark Cavendish, as he continues ...
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Aug. 28, 2008Irish Eyes, Day 2: Ben Delaney's snap shots from the Tour of Ireland

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Aug. 28, 2008Stage 2: Columbia's Cavendish rockets to second win in Irish tour
Set aside for the day’s top riders, the winner’s circle in Loughrea served as a photo booth as fans of all ages took turns posing for pictures ...
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Aug. 28, 2008Tour of Ireland - Tummy troubles
Daniel Martin is sick, but he isn’t sweating it. Actually, he is sweating, quite a bit, as a fever works to burn out the remnants of food ...
Aug. 27, 2008Irish Eyes: Ben Delaney's Tour of Ireland gallery
Ben Delaney, VeloNews' Editor in Chief, is a master wordsman, but, by his own description, a Cat. 5 photographer (apologies to our Cat. 5 ...
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Aug. 27, 2008Stage 1: Columbia's Mark Cavendish wins stage 1 in Ireland
Neither a four-man breakaway nor getting spit out on a climb could stop Columbia’s Mark Cavendish ...
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Aug. 26, 2008Beamon returns to the Tour of Ireland
Team Type 1 director Ed Beamon returns to the Tour of Ireland with a new squad this year, but with several of the same riders he led last year on the ...
Aug. 25, 2008Cavendish, Martin to Race Tour of Ireland
The Tour of Ireland begins Wednesday in Dublin, and Team Columbia’s sprint ace Mark Cavendish and Garmin-Chipotle’s Irish national champion ...
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Jun. 26, 2008Irish tour back for second edition
The Tour of Ireland is back for 2008 and both top-level American teams will be starting the five-day, five-stage race across the green hills of the ...
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