Armstrong Hints at Missing 2005 Tour
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Six-times Tour de France champion Lance  Armstrong has strongly hinted he could miss the world's leading  cycling race next year to concentrate on other goals.
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Lance Armstrong is unsure if he will ride in next summer's Tour de France because he'd like to compete in other races. Armstrong, who won a record sixth straight Tour de France this year, said in Saturday's edition of L'Equipe it is "time to move on to other things."
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While the cyclist who tested positive for doping at the Tour de France won't be identified until backup tests are complete, it does not appear to be any member of USA Cycling &#151; including champion Floyd Landis.
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PARIS - The route for the 2005 Tour de France was announced by organisers at the Palais de Congres in Paris Thursday and will start with a 19 kilometre time trial on the French island of Noirmoutier and will also have two stages in Germany.
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Lance Armstrong is unsure whether he will ride in next summer's Tour de France, saying he'd like to compete in other races. Armstrong, who won a record sixth straight Tour de France this year, said in yesterday's edition of L'Equipe that it is &quot;time to move on to other things.&quot; He had been somewhat evasive about whether he would return ...
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IN THE brasseries of the Etoile quarter of Paris yesterday lunchtime, the talk was of how many more years the locals would have to endure Lance Armstrongâs domination of their cherished Tour de France.
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Sport: Race organisers say Tour de France will have to come back to London after success of Grand DÃ©part.
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TIGNES, France  - The days when seven-times winner Lance Armstrong was sewing up the Tour de France in the prologue or the first mountain stage are over.
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Floyd Landis will skip the Tour de France -- and all races in France this year -- as part of an agreement with French doping authorities in a case that could strip him of cycling's most prestigious title.
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LEON, Spain  - Olympic gold medallist Tyler  Hamilton has returned to the Tour of Spain, five years since he  last rode it, with very different ambitions.
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Team Astana missed last year's Tour de France over a doping probe. Now, its star riders have another problem: crashes on the course.
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Waiting for the Giro d'Italia bosses to make the "trilogy' complete at last, by unveiling the route of what is supposed to be the first 2005 Grand Tour (something that should take place in January), here is La ...
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PARIS  - Lance Armstrong&#39;s increasing band of rivals have been given a glimmer of hope for victory after Tour de France organisers unveiled a slimmed-down race for 2005.
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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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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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Two of Lance ArmstrongÂs 1999 Tour de France teammates said they used the banned endurance-boosting drug EPO in preparing for that yearÂs race.
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Floyd Landis knows the Alps well &amp;#151; he sweated up enough steep mountain climbs to help Lance Armstrong clinch three of his seven Tour de France wins. With Armstrong retired, Landis is now a main contender for Tour victory as leader of the Phonak team. With the three-week race entering the Alps, the final stretch will soon be in sight.