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With their Astana Cycling Team not invited to the Tour de France (after being linked to a doping scandal in 2007), top professional road racers Levi Leipheimer and Chris Horner have decided to race in the Bend Memorial Clinic Cascade Two of the riders on the current team– ALBERTO CONTADOR and LEVI LEIPHEIMER are from Team Discovery (which has since disbanded) and finished first and third, respectively, in last year’s tour. Contador is fresh off a win at the Giro de Levi Leipheimer (Santa Rosa, Ca
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