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Then the Tour de France began, and there came the clearest sign of his decline: on July 15, in the ninth stage, Armstrong, who in winning the last three Tours had never lost an extended time trial, finished second. Said Team once's Igor González de Galdeano, who was wearing the leader's yellow jersey at the time, "The Tour has changed...
There was little that didn't go Postal's way. Even González de Galdeano's getting the yellow jersey early "worked out perfectly for us," said Postal's assistant team director, Dirk Demol. "We were hoping that a French rider would get it - it's such a big deal in France that his team would have to defend it - or a rider from once would...
...accidents are less likely to occur. (A near crash on July 13 cost him 27 seconds.) As expected, the Postal Service team didn't begin its express delivery until the first mountain stage, in the Pyrenees on July 18, when Armstrong was 26 seconds behind González de Galdeano. One by one the Posties burned themselves out and fell away like booster stages on a rocket launch as they led Armstrong on a chase of 33-year-old Laurent Jalabert of France on the final climb to La Mongie. The soon-to-be-retired JaJa had been...
...Parke-Bernet Galleries, fabulously wealthy Belgian Baron Cassel van Doom stumped pompously to every important sale, solemnly focused a pair of high-powered binoculars on everything that reached the auction block. At Gimbels 84-year-old Spanish Millionaire José Lazaro Galdeano, his loud necktie half hidden by a grey spade beard, bought right & left, walked off with one of the season's most expensive buys ($26,742): François Boucher's L'Amour, reputedly posed by Mme. de Pompadour...
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