Lance Armstrong gave his fans a show today. The American veteran was part of a high-powered break that got away from the peloton about two miles into today’s 124-mile climbing stage and, eventually reduced to just eight men, stayed away until replica omega Speedmaster watches the finish.A stage win wasn’t in the cards for Armstrong, however, as Frenchman Pierrick Fedrigo won the final sprint. Armstrong finished in sixth place, with the same time as Fedrigo and nearly seven minutes ahead of the main peloton, which contained yellow-jersey wearer Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck, who trails Contador by just eight seconds in the overall standings.
Following tomorrow’s second rest day, there will be only two more opportunities for either of them to take time out of each other or any of the other contenders—Thursday’s final climbing stage and Saturday’s 32-mile time trial on the replica iwc watches Tour’s penultimate day.It’s no secret that Contador is a vastly superior time-trialist to Schleck. So the latter’s only chance to win this Tour will be to launch the attack of his career on Thursday, when the route takes the riders up the monstrous Tourmalet for a second time. Only this time it will be with a summit finish, it a day for pure climbers like Schleck, who, it should be noted, has shown that he is possibly better in the mountains this year than Contador. It should be an explosive day.—John Bradleyjohnwbradley
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