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Article: lance on boil.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2005
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Byline: GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT
LANCE ARMSTRONG said yesterday would be important, but he could not have known just how important as he took the leader's yellow jersey in the Tour de France.
The amazing American said: 'It's always nice to win and show the team is the strongest.' However, nice was scarcely the word for the circumstances surrounding his elevation after the team time trial from Tours to Blois.
In the morning, the individual race leader was Armstrong's fellow American and former team-It was not how this ruthless rider was planning to take the lead' mate David Zabriskie, whose CSC outfit also led the team standings.
They were ...