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Monday, June 30, 2008 Astana keeps talking by Steve Jones at 7:43 PM EST   comments Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour de France, Opinion   Rather than attempt a war of words with the Amaury Sports Organization, organizers of the Tour de France, team Astana chooses to keep the dialog going with their legs. In just three days team Astana has racked up six national championship titles: Russian Road Race: Sergey Ivanov Lithuania Road Race: Tomas Vaitkus Portugal TT: Sérgio Paulinho Kazakhstan Road Race: Assan Bazayev Russia TT: Vladimir Gusev Kazakhstan TT: Andrey Mizurov Granted not the most highly contested championships, it still speaks to the class of the riders. Remarkably, 2007 Tour de France champion Alberto Contador sealed up a win at the Giro d'Italia earlier this month without any preparation. Certainly an indication of what "could have been" had he been invited to defend his title at the big show this July.       comments Follow @Pro_Cycling Tweet Subscribe via RSS or daily email Contact the editor about this article