Tour De France---8th Stage

[gobbler grad]

Overall Standings

Through Stage 8 - Saturday, July 9

Yellow Jersey Time
1. Lance Armstrong 28:06:17
2. Jens Voigt 1:00 behind
3. Alexandre Vinokourov 1:02
4. Bobby Julich 1:07
5. Ivan Basso 1:26
6. Jan Ullrich 1:36
7. Carlos Sastre 1:36
8. George Hincapie 1:47
9. Andreas Kloden 1:50
10. Floyd Landis 1:50

[LH Panther Mom]

WTG, Lance! :clap:

And thanks, GG. :)

[PhiI C]

Way to go Lance. Thanks for the updates Gobbler!

[turbostud]

Today was not a good day for Discovery. The whole team(besides LA) was dropped on a very minor climb. LA was left to fight by himself. LA was very dissappointed after the stage. Sunday's stage with 6 mountain climbs will tell us alot if LA is going to capture his 7th TdF. Dont miss it as LA is going to be attacked relentlessly. Shold be exciting from the start.

[PhiI C]

Today's finish was very exciting. Weening was awarded a win over Klodin in a photo finish. The replays looked even to me except Weening is taller and when they both leaned he probably just edged him out. Very close race. We are in the mountains which as Turbo has said is Lance's strong points. They race tomorrow and off Monday and then about three days of mountains which are the critical times for Lance. His team will need to help him out better. Hopefully, it will go better for Lance and his team tomorrow.