Ask yourself this: Did you feel a thrill when you saw the imperious Armstrong cross the line at the 2002 Tour de France seven minutes ahead of his nearest rival?

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In a last sprint, the young and promising Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde actually crossed the finish line before Armstrong, but Valverde is not considered one of Armstrong's main competitors in this year's race.

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Mr. FAUNTROY: A generation down the line, Armstrong Williams and other African-American Republicans are going to be sitting in rooms, in kitchens, in living rooms all over the country with their sons and daughters and nieces and nephews and other kids and they're going to say, wait a second.

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Armstrong can expect a long line of people with their hands out.

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Notes: The Canadiens moved Gabriel Dumont to center on the fourth line and promoted Armstrong to the third a game after he scored his first goal of the season.

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Without a summit finish, the Tour's second day in the mountains was never going to be as dramatic as Friday, when Contador surged away from his Astana team-mate Armstrong on the climb to the line.

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"She said to me, 'You can do it under one condition: That you never cross that line again, '" Armstrong recalled.

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Giro, a longtime sponsor of Armstrong, dropped him after the stripping of his titles late last year, then introduced a new line of cycling apparel touted as looking unlike cycling apparel.

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