Tuesday, July 15, 2003
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GAP, France — Lance
Armstrong was rattled. He kept
his lead in the Tour de France on
Monday and got rid of his clos
est rival, but he can do without
these harrowing close calls.
Joseba Beloki, runner-up to
the four-time champion last year
and in second place entering the
day, is finished with this Tour.
He broke his right leg, wrist and
elbow in a crash that nearly took
Armstrong out, too.
The cyclists were speeding
down the day’s last mountain,
trying to catch
leader Alexandre
Vinokourov.
Then Beloki
braked, skidded
on the slick and
melting tarmac
and hit the deck
hard.
Armstrong
was just behind
team needed surgery for a It
ken leg and a cast for his elk,
and wrist.
Going into the mountaii
ninth stage of the three-wll
Tour, Beloki was just 40 secos
behind Armstrong.
“You hate to see aguywlo'
out there, doing his best anil
real threat for the race.godmi
like that,’’ said Armstrong,wk
is trying to match
Indurain’s record of five straitl
Tour wins. “1 was lucky thatil* ng to Sallie
field was there like that. Itcoiil;
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and drove off the road into a field
to avoid hitting the Spaniard. He
recovered to finish fourth in the
stage on Bastille Day.
“I was scared like never
before,” Armstrong said. “When
you see something like that hap
pening, the first thing you do is
to say, ‘OK, where am I going to
go?’ I couldn’t make it to the
right; I couldn’t go over him; 1
could only go left. ... Then 1
found a little path there into the
field and just continued on.”
The Texan bumped across the
sun-baked grass to the bottom of
the field, cutting off a hairpin
bend. Then, he hopped off his
bike to carry it onto the road,
climbed back on and sped off in
pursuit of the riders who had
gotten ahead of him on the bend.
Above him, Beloki lay in
agony. An ambulance rushed
him to a hospital. Tour doctors
said the star of the ONCE-Eroski
Still, he retained the over;
lead he first took a day
But he has yet to stamp t
authority on this race.
Vinokourov ofTeamTeleki
won the 114.4-mile stage k
Bourg d’Oisans to Gap. Itvi
the Kazak’s first Tour deFrar,
stage win and moved him is
second place overall, just 21 set
ends behind Armstrong witb II
days of racing left.
Vinokourov powered i®
the lead on the 2.5-mile dM
to Cote de La Rochette. ik
day’s last mountain just 5 mte
from Gap. On the descent
Beloki 'and Armstrong were
close behind and narrowing I;
gap when the Spaniard crash;
on a slick corner just 2.5is
from the finish.
“It was dangerous. Aft
corners were melting. Then®
asphalt but it was
Armstrong said.
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