Tour de France at a glance
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Stage 9 : Val d'Isere to Briancon, 99.1 miles. Stage winner : Juan Soler Hernandez (Colombia), Barloworld , in 4 hours 14 minutes 23 seconds.
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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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Australian Robbie McEwen dominated a bunch sprint to win the first stage of the Tour de France held over 203km from London to here on Sunday.
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The Tour de France is still wide open as it heads toward the Alps in the final week. American rider Floyd Landis is in the driver&#039;s seat, but his lead is thin. Three contenders trail the Phonak team leader by less than 2 minutes, a margin that could vanish in a single bold mountain push. And more race favorites could still emerge.
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Overall leader: Michael Rasmussen (Denmark), Rabobank, by 43 seconds over Linus Gerdemann (Germany), T-Mobile. Inside the peloton: Team CSC veteran Jens Voigt of Germany, on the Tour's first long time trial Saturday: "It's only important for 25 riders. For me, it's 'ride as slow as I can and still make the time cut.' It's half of a rest day." His ...
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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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The route for next year&#39;s Tour de France may provide the stiffest test yet for the six-times winner, Lance Armstrong. Or perhaps not.
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At least 500,000 cycling fans are flocking to central London to watch the start of the Tour de France race.
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AP Correspondent John Leicester is covering the Tour de France and he and other AP writers will be filing periodic reports on the three-week cycling extravaganza that got under way July 1.
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The first full stage of the Tour de France began Sunday on a mostly flat course that touched into Germany, with contenders trying to emerge in a race jarred by scandal and missing some of cycling&#039;s best riders.
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Tour de France riders raced south toward the Pyrenees on Tuesday&#039;s stage nine, their last flat ride before the race climbs into the mountains.
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Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara extends his overall lead in the Tour de France, winning the third and longest stage of the race.
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Riding the grueling Tour de France bike race takes strength, stamina &#151; and perhaps a heart nearly 40 percent bigger than normal.
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Stage 5: Chablis to Autun, 113.4 miles. Stage winner: Filippo Pozzato (Italy), Liquigas, in 4 hours 39 minutes 1 second.
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BOURG-EN-BRESSE, France  - Belgian Tom Boonen clinched his first win in two years on the Tour de France when he took the race's sixth stage, a 199.5-km ride from Semur-en-Auxois to Bourg-en-Bresse on Friday.
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The marquee event of the 2007 professional cycling calendar is here. And now you can follow every nail-biting sprint, every gut wrenching climb, and every blistering decent of the Tour de France on Google Earth.
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Call it a race for recognition. After Monday's rest day, the Tour de France heads into its last ride through the Alps in the ninth stage Tuesday with the race finally starting to take shape &#151; and a new crop of contenders emerging.