Danish rider for Rabobank
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Google has released updates to its Google Earth 3-D mapping tool that at least one developer is using to create maps of Tour de France stages.
Google Earth software uses satellite imagery for its base maps. This cycling enthusiast at the Google Earth Hacks website has entered data that creates a 3-D map of a Tour de France stage.
I downloaded the …
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A bird's-eye view of the climb to Col d' Aubisque using Google Earth program and download from Google Earth Hacks.
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If he holds to his previously announced plans, Lance Armstrong will no longer be a professional bicycle racer this time next week. Armstrong has said he would retire from racing at the conclusion of the Tour de France in Paris on Sunday.
The impact on the leading cyclists in next year's Tour will be huge. But the effect on OLN and …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/07/18/whats-to-become-of-only-lance-network-when-lance-retires/
Team leader for Team CSC
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US cyclist George Hincapie pulled off one of the most surprising moves of the Tour de France this year by winning Sunday's grueling 127-mile stage over six mountain passes in the Pyrenees.
Lance Armstrong retained the yellow jersey in the overall competition, but the other overall leaders' standings got shuffled as the continuous climbing exhausted the peloton.
The stage win by Discovery Channel Pro Cycling …
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Sunday's stage of the Tour de France will surely stir memories for Lance Armstrong, who will be looking back to a tragedy 10 years earlier as he pedals closer to the end of his career.
One of five climbs in the race from Lézat-sur-Lèze to Saint-Lary Soulan is the Col de Portet d'Aspet. The peloton will pass the site where — nearly 10 years ago to the day — Italian Fabio Casartelli, a member of Armstrong's Motorola team, went down in a collision, slid into a concrete barrier, and suffered fatal head trauma.
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T-Mobile went out to destroy the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling team in Saturday's stage of the Tour de France and came within one man of success.
They never did break Lance Armstrong. Dropped briefly by the group of overall leaders on the lower part of the Port de Pailhères, Armstrong recovered and survived to cross the top in a chase group that …
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Italian cyclist died in accident on slopes of the Col de Portet d'Aspet in 1995; Motorola teammate of Lance Armstrong
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