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Pereiro moves up while peloton dozes on way to Le Puy

I have to feel sorry for Christophe Moreau. His Credit Agricole teammates, and team manager, must have been out to lunch when Oscar Pereiro, right, charged up the road in a 4-man breakaway in Friday's 95-mile stage from Issoire to Le Puy.

How else could you explain their inattention, which allowed the Spanish rider from Phonak to gain 4 minutes and 19 seconds, moving from 13th to 10th place and overtaking Moreau. …

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Oscar Pereiro

Team Phonak

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Stage 18 winner Marcos Serrano

Photo by Emeric Bisbee

Liberty Seguros rider celebrates winning his first Tour de France stage victory after trying every year since 1999.

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Armstrong on the podium in Mende

Photo by Emeric Bisbee

Lance Armstrong on the podium in Mende, Stage 18.

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German cyclist Ullrich gains in Tour podium battle

This Tour de France seems to be all about Lance Armstrong's final ride and his quest for a seventh championship, but the story lately has been on cyclist Jan Ullrich.

The big German scrambled to stay with the overall leaders — Armstrong and Ivan Basso — on Thursday's final 10%-grade climb into Mende. When it looked like he'd been dropped for good, the T-Mobile …

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Discovery's Savoldelli wins stage; Armstrong in yellow but winless

(Updated) The Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team can put another notch in its collective handlebars with Paolo Savoldelli's win on Wednesday.
The Italian, fresh from his victory in the 3-week Giro d'Italia in May, beat Team CSC's Kurt-Asle Arveson in what looked like a slow-motion “sprint” to the finish in Revel. The two had attacked their eight-man breakaway in the run-in …

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Evans jumps 4 places; teams react

When you're battling for a third-place podium position in the Tour de France like Jan Ullrich and Mickael Rasmussen, you've got to watch your back too.

Australian cyclist Cadel Evans stood in 11th place overall Tuesday morning before the 112-mile stage between Mourenx and Pau, the last in the Pyrenees. But before the day was over, he had teams from Rabobank (Rasmussen), T-Mobile (Ullrich), and Gerolsteiner (Levi Leipheimer in 6th) in an all out effort to chase him down. …

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Cadel Evans

Austalian rider for Davitamon-Lotto

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Oscar Pereiro

Phonak team

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Ullrich aiming for third place

Six days to go in the Tour de France and it's winding down to an epic battle between two cyclists– for third place.

They're a study in contrasts. One, Mickael Rasmussen, looks thin and wiry. The other, Jan Ullrich, looks heavy for a cyclist.

In his online diary posted for Monday's rest day, Ullrich says, “We certainly haven't given up …

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