Armstrong short on summits in quest for new peaks
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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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A Sherpa guide who sprinted up Mount Everest in eight hours and 10 minutes will keep the record for the fastest climb up the world's highest peak, Nepalese mountaineering officials said Thursday.
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A route to the world's highest mountain is to be built in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games.
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Sir Edmund Hillary was the mountaineer who, with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.
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Armstrong might not compete in 2005 Tour de France: In his strongest comments yet on next year&#39;s Tour de France, Lance Armstrong said he is unsure if he will ride in the sport&#39;s showcase event because he would like to compete in other races.
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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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Time to bust out the hiking boots, grab some sturdy ropes and maybe even hire a Sherpa. The Cleveland Cavaliers have some serious climbing to do. Right now, the San Antonio Spurs tower over them.
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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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The overriding impression leaving the World Alpine Championships in Bormio, Italy, is that the United States has one terrific ski team with more depth than it has enjoyed for many years -- if ever -- but that it has a long way to go to close the gap with the Austrians.
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Russia's Marat Safin will bid to scale the world's sixth highest mountain, giving the former world number one a fresh challenge which looks set to rule him out of this month's Davis Cup semi-final against Germany.
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Six-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong will attempt to capture a seventh straight title after agreeing to enter the race Wednesday.
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Search efforts are focusing on a remote region near Tibet where two elite American climbers apparently wanted to climb two isolated mountains.
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MINDEN, Nev., Sept. 13 -- The emptiness that adventure pilot Steve Fossett disappeared into at 10:30 a.m. on Labor Day appears almost endless from the air, a rugged moonscape of mountain ridges that deepen from brown to purple before dissolving into the horizon itself. There are mountains and mor...
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While on most late fall days the clouds obscure new growth, the meters on the mountain don&#39;t lie: Mount St. Helens continues to build a new mountaintop at a rapid rate.
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Weary searchers scouring Mount Hood for three missing climbers had no luck Saturday and were returning to their bases, authorities said. Air searches with Black Hawk helicopters and a C-130 cargo plane were to continue around the clock, authorities said The ground search is to resume early Sunday, weather permitting.
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Six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong may come under further investigation in Italy in relation to his trainer&#39;s drug charges.
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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 ...