Armstrong may skip Tour de France
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The most successful Tour de France racer in history may take a pass on next year&#39;s competition, the BBC reported Saturday. Lance Armstrong, who has won six of the storied races
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Leading Spanish cyclist Iban Mayo will  probably miss next month's Tour of Spain because of a suspected  viral infection, his team manager said on Wednesday.
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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis should learn on Thursday whether he has any chance of competing in this year's race.
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DALLAS A five (M) million dollar check owed Austin cyclist Lance Armstrong for winning a record sixth straight Tour de France isn&#39;t in the mail.
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Six-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has strongly hinted he could miss the world&#39;s leading cycling race next year to concentrate on other goals.
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Lance Armstrong will decide in May whether he will race in this summer&#39;s Tour de France, which he has won the last six years. He said in Wednesday&#39;s Austin American-Statesman he will ride for another two years
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Alessandro Petacchi will miss the Tour de France after the Italian Olympic Committee charges him with doping.
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Lance Armstrong is still unsure about his plans for this year's Tour de France. Armstrong on Monday said he plans to ride in several of the European spring classics before deciding in late April whether to try for a seventh consecutive Tour de France victory in July.
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After mulling the decision for more than six months, Lance Armstrong announced on Wednesday that he would compete in this year's Tour de France.
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Lance Armstrong believes Floyd Landis has said too much in public in his attempt to disprove the positive drug test that cost him the Tour de France title.
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SILVER SPRING, Md.  - Lance Armstrong will decide  in April whether to ride in this year's Tour de France but said  on Monday he has a deal with his team's new sponsor to ride in  the world's leading cycling race at least once more.
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Like a cyclist who can't shake his pursuers, the Tour de France continues to be dogged by the cloud of doping. Race leader Michael Rasmussen became the latest rider to face scrutiny Friday when he had to answer why he had been kicked off the national team for failing to report his whereabouts for drug-testing purposes.
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George Hincapie used some smarts, a little luck and a spectator&#039;s souvenir to take the overall lead at the Tour de France. Judging from his early form at the first Tour of the post-Lance Armstrong era, Hincapie is emerging as a serious contender to succeed his one-time boss.
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Next year&#39;s Tour de France cycling race may give others a chance to test Lance Armstrong. The mountain-top finishes are less intense and the time trials shorter - meaning the six-time Tour winner possibly
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Lance Armstrong dropped defamation lawsuits in France after winning three legal battles elsewhere over doping accusations.
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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis said he will not race in France until the end of 2007 and the French Anti-Doping Agency agreed to postpone its investigation into the cyclist.
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PARIS -- American cyclist Floyd Landis cannot compete in France until 2009 even if he has his two-year doping ban lifted by the sport's highest court.