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Article: Cycle: Armstrong wins 15th stage to take yellow jersey
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- AAP Sports News (Australia)
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- July 21, 2004
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AAP Sports News (Australia)
07-21-2004
Cycle: Armstrong wins 15th stage to take yellow jersey
VILLARD-DE-LANS, France, July 20 AFP - Lance Armstrong put his sprint qualities on
show to win the 180.5km 15th stage of the Tour de France between Valreas and Villard-de-Lans
today to reclaim the race leader's yellow jersey.
US Postal's Armstrong, who thus ended Thomas Voeckler's 10-day spell in yellow, claimed
his second stage of the race and 18th overall after beating Italian Ivan Basso in an exciting
sprint to the line.
Germany's 1997 winner Jan Ullrich, of T-Mobile, came third having gone on an ambitious
attack earlier before being caught by Armstrong's US Postal team with around 20km to the