Armstrong Still in Two Minds About 2005 Tour
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Six times champion Lance Armstrong will decide early in 2005 whether to take part in next year&#39;s Tour de France, the itinerary of which was unveiled Thursday.
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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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Two years after Lance Armstrong's retirement, his absence is still making almost as big an imprint as his presence did during his seven-year title run.
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Six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will attempt his seventh consecutive win in cycling's most prestigious race this summer.
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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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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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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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American Floyd Landis has maintained he   is still the true Tour de France champion and again denied   knowingly taking banned substances.
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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.
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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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To be an American cyclist in the Tour de France is to toil in the shadows of two prominent and controversial American riders: Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis
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Reigning Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has hinted that he may not contest the cycling race in 2005. The six-time Tour winner has not raced since his victory in Paris earlier in the year, choosing not to compete at the Athens Olympics.
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PARIS Lance Armstrong was absent when the route and difficulties of the 2005 Tour de France were made public in Paris, but his aura filled the hall.
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Lance Armstrongâs seven Tour de France titles seemed compelling, while Barry Bondsâs approach to Hank Aaronâs home run record has seemed mostly sour.
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Michael Rasmussen is starting to resemble Lance Armstrong, and it's not just because the Dane is wearing the yellow jersey as leader of the Tour de France.
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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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In the book, Floyd Landis, last yearâs Tour de France winner, appears to contradict some of the testimony he gave at an arbitration hearing on charges of doping last month.