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Thirteen days later Armstrong took his accustomed place on the winner's podium on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. He had become the first American to win the Tour four times and the fourth rider to win four in a row. By dominating the mountain stages, he proved that the Tour hasn't changed, that he is still the master of this race. "After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever," said Team Rabobank's Levi Leipheimer, an American who finished eighth in his first Tour...
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...
...major studio. 20th Century Fox, which owned the rights to a sequel of the Jacqueline Susann book and hit film "Valley of the Dolls," hired Meyer for the job; and Meyer hired Ebert to write the script. It was just at the time - call it the "Easy Rider" era - when studio bosses briefly convinced themselves they knew nothing about the huge new youth audience and were ready to hand the keys over to dopers, arty types and the occasional tittenfilmer...
...bullish as some observers are about the country's new direction, plenty of reservations remain. Mokhtar's detractors say he appears to be just the latest rider on Malaysia's crony-go-round. "Mokhtar is enjoying a rapid rise like Halim Saad and Tajudin Ramli and is closely aligned with Mahathir," says Terence Gomez, who teaches economics at Kuala Lumpur's University of Malaya. The issue has roiled the usually placid waters of Malaysia's press. Writing in the business weekly The Edge, journalist P. Gunasegeram penned a column about Mokhtar titled, "When One Man Gets Too Much." Gunasegeram chronicles...
...year, when 200 police raided the cyclists' hotel rooms seizing large quantities of medicines, it doesn't bode well for cycling's showcase, the Tour de France, next month. Last week police visited the hotel rooms of four teams taking part in the Italian race after a succession of riders were ejected after failing drug tests. Some were arrested as part of a wider investigation. None of the three pre-race Italian favorites made it to the finish line: 2000 winner Stefano Garzelli tested positive for a banned diuretic and last year's winner Gilberto Simoni for cocaine. Francesco Casagrande...