Spaniard Sanchez powers to road race gold in Baku


  • Cycling
  • Sunday, 21 Jun 2015

BAKU (Reuters) - Spaniard Luis Leon Sanchez, winner of four Tour de France stages but dogged in recent years by alleged links to doping, claimed men's road race gold at the European Games on Sunday.

The 31-year-old Astana rider prevailed in a sprint battle for the line with Ukraine's Andriy Grivko, an Astana team mate, taking silver and Czech Petr Vakoc bronze.

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