Tour De Lance: Stage 19
By Wyatt Earp | July 22, 2005
LE PUY-EN-VELAY, France (AP) — Italy’s Giuseppe Guerini won Friday’s 19th stage of the Tour de France, with overall leader Lance Armstrong riding safely behind in the main pack.
The six-time champion maintained his comfortable advantage of 2 minutes, 46 seconds over Italy’s Ivan Basso, and 3:46 on Denmark’s Mickael Rasmussen heading into Saturday’s final time trial.
That race against the clock should determine the top riders’ standings ahead of Sunday’s final ride into Paris, where Armstrong is expected to collect his seventh straight Tour title before retiring.
“Big day,” Armstrong said. “I’ll give it everything I have.”
I personally don’t have a problem with Armstrong playing it safe throughout the tour. It may not be as exciting as I’d like, but he’s got his eyes on the prize. Tomorrow, he’ll probably dominate the final time trial, and then coast into gay Pa-ree sipping champagne and pissing off Frenchmen. Sweet.
Topics: Cycling | 4 Comments »
July 22nd, 2005 at 11:36 pm
Memorandum to France:
Our cancer survivor and beat your syphilis survivor!!!
July 22nd, 2005 at 11:37 pm
can beat*
July 23rd, 2005 at 6:48 am
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: “Lance Armstrong is a god!”
July 23rd, 2005 at 11:01 pm
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: “Lance Armstrong is a god!”
That sounded kind of queer.
(No offence.)