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...during the brutal Pyrenees ascents. His rivals had a final long-shot chance to catch him, Saturday?s 34.5-mile time trial in Saint-Etieene, the penultimate stage of the Tour. Armstrong won the stage, his first on this year?s Tour. From the podium, tears filled his steel-blue eyes-he knew it was over...
...David Sedaris had attracted three or four hundred to the bookstore the previous weekend. ?We moved the podium out to here,? Zack told me as we walked into the events room. Our Red Sox, by contrast, lured a mixed crowd of perhaps twenty on a thick night that promised thunderstorms (the author said by way of explanation). Zack made a gracious introduction, I read a few bits, and then we entered into question-and-answer. We mercifully dealt with Foulke in under five minutes, and then moved on to more substantial things: ?How do you get all those tickets?? ?Down...
...former Armstrong lieutenants, desperate to escape his mountainous shadow, could soon reach the Champs Elysées podium. Floyd Landis, 29, who was never even allowed to race a bike as a kid, stood sixth overall through 14 stages (out of 21) in this year's Tour. He grew up without a television or radio in a Mennonite household in Pennsylvania, and he needed permission from a pastor to wear racing tights in public. Landis still won't conform. After riding shotgun for Armstrong on the U.S. Postal team for the past three Tours, he jumped to the Swiss Phonack squad...
Following a loss in the semifinals to Georgia’s Betshana Karanadze, Ogunwole was knocked out of gold or silver medal contention. And his bronze medal opponent, Turkey’s Yasin Kilic, made Ogunwole’s road to the podium as long and difficult as possible...
...She’s so humble—I don’t think she’s ever prepared a speech in her life. She gets up to the podium and does ‘open-mike.’ It’s probably the most refreshing thing at a banquet—a truly hilarious performance...