2005 Tour route could level the field
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The 2005 Tour de France might give other riders their best chance to test Lance Armstrong, if he goes for a seventh consecutive title.
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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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Jay Haas, who turns 51 on Dec. 2, leads the Tour Championship. That&#39;s The Tour as in PGA Tour, not Champions Tour where most pro golfers 50 and over are expected to play and prosper.
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PARIS: The US will stage a round of the World Motorcycling Championship in 2005 as the tournament returns to the country after an 11-year break.
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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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Winning the Dunlop Phoenix in Japan last month for his first stroke-play title of the year wasn&#39;t the only thing that made Tiger Woods excited about the 2005 season.
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Last week Andre Stolz was considering coming back to Australia from the US early. He was frustrated with his progress, or rather lack of it, in 2004 and with little likelihood of a start at next week&#39;s event
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Boosted by a first strokeplay title in more than a year, Tiger Woods is champing at the bit to mount a fresh major challenge in 2005.
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The 2005 Tour de France will start on the tiny Atlantic island of Noirmoutier and will feature just three mountain finishes and one individual time-trial.
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SOMEWHERE along the road that each year begins in Melbourne and stretches to Paris and London before ending in New York, tennis has become interesting again.
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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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The WTA Tour wants to shorten its season, reduce the number of mandatory tournaments and give the top women more of a break after Grand Slam events.
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VERONA, Italy  - Hein Verbruggen,  head of the  International cycling Union (UCI), has reaffirmed that the  sport's revolutionary Pro Tour will begin in 2005 as planned.
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Ernie Els has another 1 million pounds and a World Match Play record all to himself. But he wants more. And top of the South African&#39;s agenda for 2005 is to try to win the Masters and US PGA titles.
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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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AMERICAN legend Lance Armstrong looks set to shelve plans to try to win a seventh successive Tour de France. The 33-year-old told L&#39;Equipe newspaper yesterday he had other ambitions in the sport before he
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Any road map assumes that there is a starting point, a destination and mileposts in between. But before a carload of travelers can begin a road trip, they&#39;ve got to decide who is going to drive the car.