Monday - July 24, 2006

Tour De America

This really isn’t fair. Do you suppose we should let the Frogs win one of their silly little bicycle races once in a while or should we continue to show them how real men get things done? If we don’t they will continue to whine and cry that our athletes are doped on steroids or some such drivel. They’re still harassing Lance Armstrong even though he’s retired. I’m waiting to see what their excuse will be this year. Merde!

Landis Succeeds Armstrong
As Hushovd Bags Brace
_{(AFP) - Jul 23 12:24 PM US/Eastern}

American Floyd Landis won the Tour de France here following the 20th and final stage to succeed compatriot Lance Armstrong. Landis came over the finish line of the race’s final stage, held over 154km between Antony and the Champs Elysees, after the victory of Norwegian Thor Hushovd.

Hushovd, of Credit Agricole, surged to his second stage win of the race Sunday, after his prologue victory, after outsprinting Australian Robbie McEwen 100 metres before the finish line.

Another Australian, Stuart O’Grady of CSC, finished third on the stage just ahead of the bunch. Landis, 30, becomes the third winner of the race from the United States. Greg LeMond was the first American to win the yellow jersey in 1986 and the first American to win it three times having also triumphed in 1989 and 1990.

Armstrong’s seven-year reign as the race champion came to an end last year when he retired from the sport. Landis won the race with a lead of 59sec on Spaniard Oscar Pereiro of Caisse d’Epargne. Pereiro had been leading the Tour with a 30sec lead on Landis on the penultimate stage time trial.

However the American produced a convincing performance over 57km of the race’s second and final race against the clock on Saturday to take the yellow jersey for the third time in the race.

Landis’s bid to succeed his former US Postal teammate Armstrong looked dead and buried when he lost the yellow jersey after tumbling to 11th place overall at 8min 08sec behind Pereiro on a disastrous stage 16.

However, the next day the American capped a daring solo raid over five cols to claim his first ever stage victory on the Tour and move to within 30sec of the yellow jersey.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/24/2006 at 06:29 AM   
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