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	2003 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A long, largely flat 219.5 km stage after three days in the mountains gave the majority of the riders a chance to recuperate, the pace was somewhat slower than the average to this stage.
		The toughest climbs were the Col de la Core at 67 km, Col de Menté at 118.5 km, the Col du Portillon at 156 km and the final climb and descent of the Col de Peyresourde at 180 km.
		The stage was won by David Millar who, despite illness and the adverse weather, set the second fastest time trial in the Tour, 54.358 km/h (Greg LeMond 54.545 km/h (1989)).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_Tour_de_France,_Stage_10_to_Stage_20 (2620 words)

	CSC Cycling 2004 Tour de France Route Promises Excitement October 23, 2003
		Team CSC will be looking to win stages with such riders as Jakob Piil in the opening week as well as have eyes on taking the prized team time trial, set this year on Stage 4.
		The Tour then pushes west toward Brittany with rolling road stages at the end of the first week before a transfer carries the entourage into the hilly and rural Massif Central region of France.
		The Tour will likely be won in the decisive final week of the race, with three climbing stages in the Alps and two individual time trials all packed into five days of racing before returning to Paris.
	www.csc.com /mms/cycling/en/ne/na/articleDetail.jsp?id=146 (786 words)

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		Stage 2 - Charleroi > Namur, 197 km
		Stage 3 - Waterloo > Wasquehal, 210 km
		Stage 5 - Amiens > Chartres, 200.5 km
	www.grahamwatson.com /2004/tour/coverpage.html (186 words)

	In Paris, It's Vive le Lance (washingtonpost.com)
		Armstrong, competing in his ninth Tour at age 31, rode safely with the peloton today onto the sun-splashed and flag-bedecked Champs-Elysees, Paris's grandest and best-known boulevard, and took his place among the pantheon of cycling greats, winning with a combination of tenacity, talent and, this year, luck and the ability to outlast his opponents.
		And German rider Jan Ullrich, who won the 1997 Tour and was Armstrong's most formidable opponent, skidded and fell on a turn during Saturday's time trial in the rain in Nantes, leaving Armstrong unstoppable.
		He was knocked to the ground when his handlebar caught on a spectator's bag, and for a few brief seconds it appeared his Tour hopes had crashed as well.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A53012-2003Jul27.html (1090 words)

	CSC Cycling Team CSC Recharges on Tour Rest Day July 22, 2003
		Team CSC rolled out of three difficult stages in the Pyrénées with a stage victory for Carlos Sastre, two riders in the top 10 (Sastre 10th at 16:12 and Tyler Hamilton 7th at 9:02) and with the squad leading the team classification.
		Hamilton was instrumental in encouraging the leading riders to wait for Tour leader Lance Armstrong after he suffered a spectacular crash when his handlebars got tangled with a fan's bag alongside the course.
		One of the top objectives in the final week of the Tour will be fighting to win the team competition, determined by the cumulative time of a team's top-three finishers of each stage.
	www.csc.com /mms/cycling/en/ne/na/articleDetail.jsp?id=163 (901 words)

	ESPN.com: OLY - Another bumpy ride, but Lance keeps lead
		Lance Armstrong was presented with a new hazard Tuesday at the Tour de France -- street protests.
		Armstrong was stuck in a pack of riders briefly blocked by demonstrators, and he completed the 10th stage in a group that finished more than 20 minutes behind winner Jakob Piil of Denmark.
		Tour officials ruled the protest was a "normal race incident,'' meaning riders would have to suffer the consequences of the demonstration.
	espn.go.com /oly/tdf2003/s/2003/0715/1580829.html (701 words)

	ESPN.com: OLY - 2003 Tour de France Coverage
		France eagerly awaits the showdown between Lance Armstron and Jan Ullrich.
		The Tour de France is moving into the Alps, where Lance Armstrong is expected to ascend to the top.
		Four-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has described his former teammate Tyler Hamilton as a "tough dude" for riding with a broken collarbone.
	espn.go.com /oly/tdf2003 (348 words)

	VeloNews: 2003 Tour de France Special Coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The 2003 Tour de France returned to where it started three weeks ago and finished with the same winner as the past four years.
		Armstrong was relieved that the harrowing three-week, 20-stage race was over and on Sunday he toasted his victory with champagne during the Tour's final stage.
		Riders are not allowed to change out of their normal team jerseys, but the team defied the rules to wear the jerseys in honor of the Tour's 100th-anniverary celebration.
	www.velonews.com /tour2003/details/articles/4715.0.html (639 words)

	Tour De France
		It is very interesting to see the Tour De France wrap up with a Stage that doesn't have much of an impact on the final General Classification.
		Stage 13 in the Tour De France was one of those magical stages.
		Stage 10 featured a protest that actually brought parts of the race to a halt.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /wac02/2003_07_01_archive.html (5911 words)

	Tour de France Preview Tour de France Preview - GreatOutdoors.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Route of the 2004 Tour de France.
		In the last ten years of racing on the Tour, half of those have followed this counter clockwise (the Europeans call it anti-clockwise) direction, and two of those races were victories by Lance Armstrong, his second (2000), and fourth (2002).
		Stage 12 starts in Castelsarrasin and ends high above in the ski resort of La Mongie; Stage 13 starts in Saint Gaudens/Lannemezan and ends in Plateau de Beille, traversing a route that includes five mountain passes and a daunting 80 kilometers of climbing in 217 kilometers of racing.
	www.greatoutdoors.com /published/cycle/news/tourdefrancepreview?rssfeed (848 words)

	Runner's & Triathlete's Web- Cycling: James Raia Reports from the Tour de France - Stage IX
		While still mild compared to the 2003 conditions, the nine categorized climbs of the 10th stage provided a good preamble to the predicted warm stages ahead in the Pyrenees and the Alps.
		Many long-time Tour observers have commented that waiting until the race's second half is too long before the climbing begins in earnest.
		The team sponsored by the watch manufacturer was dismissed during the 1998 Tour de France for drug offenses.
	www.runnersweb.com /running/news/rw_news_20040715_Raia_TDF_Stage10.html (1227 words)

	VeloNews: 2003 Tour de France Special Coverage
		Lance Armstrong shook off a dramatic crash less than 10km from the finish at Luz-Ardiden when his handlebar hooked a fan's bag to win his first stage of the 2003 Tour and widen his grip on the yellow jersey to a more comfortable 1:07 over second-placed Jan Ullrich (Bianchi).
		The 159.5km stage 15 started with three riders within 18 seconds of each other, the closest-ever margin at this stage of the Tour, but it ended with Armstrong padding his lead.
		"I knew this was the most important stage for me and I had to attack to make up some time differences on Jan," said Armstrong, after winning his 16th career Tour stage victory.
	www.velonews.com /tour2003/details/articles/4620.0.html (454 words)

	Tom's 2003 Tour de France Page: Welcome! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Enter the Erik's 2003 Tour de France contest, The Daily Peloton's Fantasy Game, (using IE only, per their instructions) or George Chapman's Fantasy Tour de France.
		I'm guessing here that, based on the length of the stage and the profile, that teams will put their climbers in front to start, crest the hill, and "it's basically all downhill from there." So, my guess for the best team time is around 1h04m12s.
		One first category climb late in the stage, a descent, and then a climb to the finish, (looks like around 10km or less.) Naturally there was a break, but as the stage developed, 3 riders were off the front, Sastre, Mercado, and Rubiera.
	home.earthlink.net /~kjtar/2003tdf.html (9013 words)

	Tour de France 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This is the longest and one of the toughest stages of the Tour.
		Here's my rant: before the start of the Tour, many of the challengers to Armstrong's Tour supremacy noted that the only way to beat Lance was to put his team under stress and do all that's possible to separate him from his team.
		Let's assume that Wednesday's stage, with its monster climbs in the middle of the stage, is unlikely to affect the GC standings.
	www.torelli.com /raceinfo/tdf/tdf2003.html (13058 words)

	T D F - 2 0 0 4
		Chris Carmichael is the founder and chairman of Carmichael Training Systems, Inc. Carmichael is coach of cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, winner of the 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 Tour de France.
		Inducted into the U.S. Bicycle Hall of Fame in May of 2003, Carmichael has also been honored as the USOC's Coach of the Year (1999) and served as the cycling coach during the 1992 and 1996 Olympics.
		A member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Cycling Team, Carmichael was part of the first American team to ride in the Tour de France in 1986.
	ww2.olntv.com /tdf04/carmichael.html (314 words)

	Tour de France 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In all, 164 drug tests were administered during the 2005 Tour, all negative.
		Valverde and his team are reportedly refocusing their late-season goals on the world championships in Madrid, despite the race profile, which is expected to favor full-on sprinters.
		Jeremy Whittle: Le Tour: A Century of the Tour de France
	notd.blogs.com /tdf (1613 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Stage 9: Bourg d'Oisans - Gap, 184.5 km, Monday 14
		Stage 10: Gap - Marseille, 219.5 km, Tuesday 15
		Stage 20: Ville d'Avray - Paris (Champs-Elysées), 152 km, Sunday 27
	grahamwatson.com /2003/tdf/coverpage.html (209 words)

	Active.com \| Tour de France 1903 - 2003: Le Centenaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One of the most exciting and dramatic Tours in recent memory ends with Jean Patrick Nazon taking the final stage and Lance cruising in for a record-tying 5th straight Tour de France win.
		Stage 5: Petacchi grabs hat-trick on fifth stage of Tour de France
		Correspondent James Raia is reporting on the Tour from France, sending daily dispatches via his "Tour de France Times." Here's a glimpse into the goings-on in the world's biggest bike race.
	www.active.com /tdf2003/reports (427 words)

	Bicycling: Tour De France 2005 - Minutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At the summit of the Col de Latrape
		He started the Tour as one of Iban Mayo's chief lieutenants, having finished fifth in the 2003 Tour.
		The official Tour weather report calls for a "menacing and chaotic" sky, and tall banks of clouds are peering over the surrounding mountains as the peloton races through the town of Nestier.
	www.bicycling.com /tourdefrance/daily/minutes/0,3481,-254,00.html (3391 words)

	Bicycling: Tour De France 2005 - 2005 Stage 20 Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		If the race is tight, this could play out like the dramatic final time trial of the 2003 Tour, which saw Jan Ullrich lose his hopes on a rainy roundabout and Lance Armstrong clinch his fourth and toughest Tour win.
		Time trial specialists like Brad McGee of Francaise des Jeux and Gerolsteiner's Michael Rich will be hoping to notch a stage win.
		How this Stage Affects the Race: Again, it could be everything, or nothing; it just depends on the time gaps and who's in the lead - a good time trialist or a climber.
	www.bicycling.com /tourdefrance/daily/stages/info/0,3486,-322,00.html (213 words)

	Tour of Hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Tour de France is an international team bicycle race that lasts for three weeks and covers approximately 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) of French countryside, mountains and urban landscape.
		Twenty teams with nine riders each will ride 21 timed daily stages on terrain ranging from flat to mountainous to high mountain to high altitude.
		Learn about the Tour de France route and all the teams that competed in the race at www.letour.com.
	www.tourofhope.org /lance/france.htm (253 words)

	SI.com - Cycling - 2003 Tour de France Index - Thursday July 31, 2003 09:15 AM
		Posted: Tuesday July 01, 2003 12:15 PM Updated: Thursday July 31, 2003 9:15 AM Armstrong said his fifth Tour win was "definitely the hardest."
		July 22: Armstrong five stages from Tour heaven
		July 20: Struggling Armstrong admits battle for form
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cycling/news/2003/07/01/tourdefrance (538 words)

	Mile by mile with Kyle
		The trio biked from Boston to Seattle—including an emotional celebration in Rattray's hometown of Sunnyside, Wash.—with the goal of raising $25,000 for the American Cancer Society.
		In his final thoughts about the trip, Rattray alluded to "It's Not About the Bike," the book by Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong.
		Stage 4: Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota - June 28 to July 4
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/nr/2003/biketrip (293 words)

	Tour de France - Stage 13
		Lance Armstrong lost 19 seconds to Jan Ullrich in the 13th stage.
		The top 10 of the 197.5km stage from Toulouse to Ax-3 Domaines is:
		6 MAYO Iban ESP EUS at 05' 20"
	journals.aol.com /mwcycling/Cycling/entries/9 (146 words)

	Tour de France - Stage 20
		Lance Armstrong finished the stage in 112th place.
		He was not given the same time as the stage winner, Jean Patrick Nazon.
		7 BASSO Ivan ITA FAS at 10' 12"
	journals.aol.com /mwcycling/Cycling/entries/26 (258 words)

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