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NYTimes version:

Armstrong Wins a Record Sixth Tour de France
by Samuel Abt
Published: July 25, 2004
Eddy Merckx, a Belgian, matched the record in 1974 and failed to break it the next year when a French fan injured him with a punch in the liver. Bernard Hinault, a Frenchman, won his fifth in 1985 and was second in his final year, 1986. Miguel Indurain, the Spaniard who won five Tours consecutively, faltered in the rain and cold in 1996 and retired at the end of that season.

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142 posted on 07/25/2004 5:34:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)

Merckx's career ended with a punch to the liver by a French fan. Aren't the French just wonderful? /sarcasm>

Armstrong has been up against it in more ways than one I presume. Good thing there are lots of American fans along the route.

148 posted on 07/25/2004 8:41:39 PM PDT by GVnana (Tagline? I don't need no stinkin' tagline!)

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