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LORIENT, France (AP) —
Lance Armstrong is not the
dominating force he used to be
in Tour de France time trials.
The three-time Tour winner
recorded a rare second-place
finish in Monday’s ninth stage,
taking 11 seconds more than
Colombian Santiago Botero to
complete a wind-swept course
through Brittany.
Armstrong’s performance
allowed him to move up six
spots into second place overall,
26 seconds behind Spain’s Igor
Gonzalez Galdeano. The
Spaniard finished 19 seconds
behind Botero.
While the 30-year-old Texan
remains the overwhelming
favorite to win a fourth consecu
tive Tour, his rivals see the sec
ond-place finish as a dent in the
Armstrong armor.
“The Tour has changed —
Armstrong isn’t as strong in the
time trial as he was a year ago,’’
said Gonzalez Galdeano, who
finished fourth in the stage to
retain the overall leader’s yellow
jersey. “The race has become
more open.’’
Here is a
measure of
Armstrong’s
dominance in
individual
time trials:
Since his first
Tour victory
in 1999, he
has won seven
of the last nine coming into
Monday’s stage. Not counting
two quick prologues, he was
seven for seven.
“The Tour isn’t monotone
after all,” Armstrong said. “It’s
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not like everybody had said it
was — there are other riders
out there.”
Monday’s stage marked the
end of a flat, speedy first week
full of crashes. The race now
heads to the mountains, one of
Armstrong’s other strengths.
Armstrong dominated in the
mountains last year, winning
the Tour with a final advantage
of more than six-and-a-half
minutes.
Tuesday is a rest day, when
the riders fly down to south
western France. The race
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— Tiger Woods already met his
match at the British Open.
After finishing a practice
round Monday morning
before the wind began to whip
off the Firth of Forth, Woods
headed directly to the driving
range. But he ran into a secu
rity guard who did not recog
nize him and did not see his
credentials.
She threw her arms out and
blocked him from going any
farther until a member of
Woods’entourage intervened.
If only the rest of the field at
Muirfield could stop him so
easily.
Woods has breezed to victory
in the first two major champi
onships of the year, winning the
Masters by three strokes when
no one mounted a charge, and
winning the U.S. Open by the
same margin despite closing
with a 2-over-par 72.
That made him the first
player since Jack Nick|aus .in
to win the first two legs; of
the Grand Slam, and a big
favorite to win all four majors
in the same year.
The next test — if one even
unfolds — starts Thursday at
Muirfield, the East Lothian
links which is short by mod
ern championship standards
(7,034 yards) but is regarded
as one of the most complete
tests among courses in the
British Open rotation.
“It’s a fair test,” said Nick
Faldo, who won the silver claret
jug in 1987 and 1992, the last
two times the British Open was
played at Muirfield. “If you
play well, you’ll score well.”
That’s what is expected
from Woods, who hasn’t hit a
competitive shot since he
tapped in a bogey putt on the
72nd hole at Bethpage Black in
New York last month.
Still, there are no guarantees
in golf, and Woods was taking
nothing for granted.
He has spent two days at
Muirfield, working on a vari
ety of shots and paying close
attention from the tee. He
rarely hit a driver Monday,
even on the par 5s, and con
centrated on how far the ball
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THE 131 ST BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
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A t next week’s British Open, Tiger Woods
could join Ben Hogan to become the
only other player in the game’s history to
win the first three professional majors.
Arnold Palmer in 1960 and
Jack Nicklaus in 1972 are the only 4
others who had the chance.
Both failed at the British Open.
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Purse: 3.8 million British pounds ($5.3 million)
Winner’s share: 700,000 pounds ($980,000)
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would roll and what was
required to avoid the bunkers.
Players complain about the
driver being taken out of their
hands at American majors.
Here, they expect it. The
British Open has always been
more about position and course
management than hitting the
ball a mile for a short iron into
the green.
An example
of that came on
the 448-yard
14th hole that
played into a
stiff breeze.
Driver brings
the deep, sodden-faced bunkers
into play, so Woods hit a 2-iron
off the tee and had a 3-iron for
his second shot.
With a low, piercing trajec
tory, the ball rolled onto and
through the green.
Woods dropped another
ball.
“How about this time I hold
it against the wind,” he said to
caddie Steve Williams. The ball
climbed against overcast skies
and landed some 15 feet next to
the hole.
As his second practice
ended. Woods marveled at
Muirfield.
“The bunkers here are so
strategically placed,” he said
of a links course that first
held a British
Open in 1892.
He motioned
to the large
cross bunkers
120 yards short
of the green on
the 546-yard 17th hole, which
didn’t appear to be in play
with the wind behind his
back.
“They are if you hit it over
there,” he said, pointing to the
thick rough to the right. “Then
you can’t just run it up to the
green. And if the wind comes
out of the other direction, you
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might not be able to clear them
with your second shot.”
It is for these reasons the
British Open could allow for
more players to contend than at
Augusta National, which had
been stretched by nearly 300
yards in a massive redesign,
and Bethpage Black, the
longest U.S. Open course in
history at 7,214 yards.
However, length isn’t every
thing.
“I can reach the fairways. I
couldn’t always say that at the
U.S. Open,” said Jim Furyk,
playing for the first time since
his first child was born three
weeks ago. “It’s very straight
forward for a links course. It
gives you a lot of options. You
can take as much club as you
choose, but I think it eventually
will bite you.”
Most links have relatively
flat greens, although some of
the greens at Muirfield are
heavily contoured.
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resumes Wednesday with a
91.1-mile trek from Bazas to
Pau. The Tour enters the
Pyrenees on Thursday, for the
first of six mountain stages
this year.
“We’ll now see if he’s as
unbeatable as he once was in
the mountains,” Gonzalez
Galdeano said.
Botero, of the Kelme team,
clocked a time of 1 hour, 2 min
utes and 18 seconds for the
32.24-mile loop through
Brittany from Lanester to
Lorient. It was the 29-year-old’s
second stage victory.
“Bolero’s no surprise win
ner,” Armstrong said. His com
ments were relayed through Jogi
Muller, spokesman for his U.S.
Postal Service team.
The Colombian topped
Armstrong by 42 seconds in a
25.4-mile time trial stage in the
Dauphine Libere in June,
although the Texan won the
week-long race.
Another individual time trial
is scheduled on July 27, a day
before the Tour enters Paris for
the finish.
76ers star to
surrender for
threat charge
PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
Allen Iverson prepared to sur
render to police on charges he
burst into his cousin’s apartment
with a handgun and threatened
two men.
The 2000-01 NBA MVP has
been confined to his $2.4 mil
lion house since prosecutors
announced last week they would
charge him and his uncle with
assault, terroristic threats and
related offenses.
Iverson also faces gun
charges. The 27-year-old
Philadelphia 76ers guard and his
uncle were expected to turn
themselves in Tuesday.
Iverson allegedly threw his
wife, Tawanna, out of their sub
urban mansion during a fight,
then barged inld the cousin’s
Philadelphia apartment with a
gun while searching for her the
next night. Iverson and his uncle
allegedly threatened two people
inside the apartment — 21-year-
old Charles Jones and 17-year-
old Hakim Carey.
Police have searched
Iverson’s house and vehicles,
but are not believed to have
found a weapon.
In a court document filed
Monday, police said one of the
searches turned up two cell
phones, a phone bill, other
phone company documents and
auto body repair documents.
There was no mention of a gun.
The police document did not say
whether the search was of
Iverson’s house or cars.
Curiosity-seekers have been
coming to Iverson’s house for
days, hoping to catch a glimpse
of him or his wife. Reporters
and photographers have been
camping outside.
Iverson has not been seen
outside the house since about 5
a.m. Sunday, at the end of a
party with friends and relatives.
The last glimpse of his wife
came Wednesday. Neither spoke
with reporters.
The last statement from
Iverson’s Virginia lawyers was
July 8, when they issued a news
release confirming they had met
with police. One lawyer, hired
last week, has been vacationing
in Europe. Another repeatedly
declined to comment.
When Iverson turns himself
in, he will be fingerprinted, pho
tographed and given a booking
number. Then he will wait for
his preliminary arraignment.
Police say Iverson will not be
moved up in line, although he
will be allowed to meet with his
attorney like any prisoner await
ing arraignment.
NBA’s problem child
fouls out
NBA superstar Allen Iverson is
expected to surrender tp ; > O
Philadelphia police to face
multiple charges, including
threatening two men with a gun.
Iverson and his unde. Gregory
Iverson, are accused of barging
into his cousin's apartment, as
the Sixers’ guard searched for
his wife. The charges:
Allen Iverson
♦ Criminal trespass, felony,
two counts
• Criminal conspiracy, felony,
one count
• Violation of the Uniform
Firearms Act, felony, one count
• Violation of the Uniform
Firearms Act, misdemeanor,
one count
♦ Simple assault, misdemeanor,
two counts
* Terroristic threats, misdemeanor,
two counts
• Unlawful restraint,
misdemeanor, two counts
* False imprisonment,
misdemeanor, two counts
• Possession of an instrument
of crime, misdemeanor,
one count
Gregory Iverson
* Criminal trespass, felony,
two counts
• Criminal conspiracy, felony,
one count
• Simple assault, misdemeanor,
two counts
* Terroristic threats, misdemeanor,
two counts
♦ Untawful restraint, misdemeanor,
two counts
* False imprisonment,
misdemeanor, two counts
SOURCE: Associated Press
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