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Only with his Tour de France title finally assured during the pass leg on the cobblestoned Champs-Elys Dees, did dismiss Armstrong celebrate by lifting a flute of champagne to a resounding Cheers!\ Overcoming crashes, illness, hard-charging rivals and plain previous(a) bad luck, the Texan won his hardest unless sweetest Tour on Sunday -- a record-tying fifth straight that places him among the greatest cyclists ever. contradictory previous years, when he won by comfortable circumferences, the fleshy 23-day, 2,125-mile clockwise trek around France pushed Armstrong to the limit. Before the Tour started I was very confident about winning. But before close years Tour, I wont be so confident,\ he said. Armstrong joined Spaniard Miguel Indurain as the only riders to win cyclings more or less brutal and prestigious race five times uncoiledly -- a record Armstrong plans to break in 2004. King de Lance Armstrong A look at Lance Armstrongs Tour de France charge: TOUR VICTORIES: Five straight from 1999-03, tying the record for consecutive wins do by Miguel Indurain of Spain (1991-95). Three others won five Tours, but not in a row -- Jacques Anquetil of France (1957, 1961-64), Eddy Merckx of Belgium (1969-72, 1974), and Bernard Hinault of France (1978-79, 1981-82, 1985).

gift VICTORIES: 16 -- one from each one in 1993, 1995, 2000, 2003; four each in 1999, 2001, 2002. His U.S. Postal Service team also won a time trial together this year. Merckx won a record 34 stages, Hinault 28, Anquetil 16, and Indurain 12. WINNING MARGINS: Beat Alex Zulle of Switzerland by 7 minutes, 37 seconds in 1999, Jan Ullrich of Germany by 6:02 in 2000, Ullrich by 6:44 in 2001, Joseba Beloki of Spain by 7:17 in 2002, and Ullrich by 1:01 this year. The largest gap between the succeeder and runner-up in race history is nearly 3 hours -- 2:59:21 to be exact -- set by Maurice Garin of France in the first Tour in 1903. The smallest margin is 8 seconds, in Greg LeMonds victory over Laurent Fignon in 1989.... If you compliments to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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