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By John Leicester
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAYONNE, France — Riding with the pain
of a broken collarbone, veteran American racer
Tyler Hamilton won his first-ever stage in the
Tour de France on Wednesday after a brave solo
breakaway effort.
Lance Armstrong retained his 67-second
overall lead with four days of racing left. He fin
ished 24th in Wednesday’s stage, 1 minute 55
seconds behind Hamilton.
Hamilton applauded himself as he crossed the
line at the end of the 16th stage, a 122.5-mile
trek from Pau to Bayonne and the last punishing
day in the mountains.
“It was incredible, incredibly difficult,”
Hamilton said. “I knew I had to give it every
thing. I really can’t believe it.”
Armstrong leads Jan Ullrich, his German
archrival who won the Tour in 1997. After
Wednesday’s stage, Alexandre Vinokourov of
Kazakhstan was third overall, 2 minutes and 45
seconds behind Armstrong.
With the win, Hamilton was propelled one
notch in the overall standings to sixth and now
has a good shot at finishing in the top five when
the race ends Sunday in Paris. He said winning
the 16th stage made up for the two weeks
of pain.
“To win a stage of the Tour de France is fan
tastic. It’s beyond my wildest dreams,” Hamilton
said. “After today, I’ll forget about the disap
pointment.”
Hamilton broke his collarbone in a crash on
the second day of the three-week race but con
tinued riding. Armstrong gave him a hug at the
finish Wednesday.
“I think this is the biggest day of the Tour,”
Armstrong said. “Incredible.”
Hamilton was long Armstrong’s U.S. Postal
Service teammate, but now races against him as
the star rider for Team CSC.
During Wednesday’s stage, Hamilton broke
away and raced alone at the front for much of
the race, finishing in 4 hours, 59 minutes and 41
seconds. Afterward, he said his collarbone,
which was broken in two places, is still sore but
felt better.
“The first week was just brutal, both on and
off the bike. I was suffering,” he said. “It’s prob
ably been my most difficult race ever.”
Hamilton, 32, of Marblehead, Mass., was
viewed as one of a handful of cyclists capable of
denying Armstrong a record-tying fifth-straight
Tour victory before he was injured in the crash
involving 35 riders.
Armstrong and Ullrich will battle for the Tour
title in a time trial Saturday, the day before the
finish in the Champs-Elysees.
Ullrich beat Armstrong in the last time trial,
taking 96 seconds out of the 31-year-old Texan’s
overall lead. If the 29-year-old German does so
again Saturday, he has a good chance of winning
overall.
“From the first to the last meter, I’ll give
everything,” Ullrich said Wednesday. “I hope I
can beat Lance. At least I still have a chance.”
But Armstrong was dehydrated during that
event last Friday and, while finishing second,
was far from his best. If he holds Ullrich off in
Saturday’s race against the clock, his slim lead
will probably be enough to give him his fifth suc
cessive Tour win, tying the record of Spanish
racer Miguel Indurain.
“My goal is to win the stage,” Armstrong
said. “I’ve never lost the final time trial in a Tour
de France and I don’t plan on starting this year.”
TOUR DE FRANCE 2003
Hamilton wins his first Tour stage
Suffering from a fractured collarbone, Tyler Hamilton battled
on to become the sixth American rider to win a stage of the
Tour de France.
16th Stage (Pau to Bayonne), 122.5 mi.
1
Tyler Hamilton (U.S.)
4 hr. 59 min. 41 seconds
2
Erik Zabel (Germany)
1 min. 55 seconds behind
3 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukraine)
same time
4
Luca Paolini (Italy)
same time
5 Gerrit Gfomser (Austria)
Overall standings
same time
1
Lance Armstrong (U.S.)
70 hrs. 37 min. 59 seconds
2
Jan Ullrich (Germany)
1 min. 7 seconds behind
3
A. Vinokourov (Kazakhstan)
2 min. 45 seconds behind
4
Haimar Zubeldia (Spain)
5 min. 16 seconds behind
5
Iban Mayo (Spain)
5 min. 25 seconds behind
6
Tyler Hamilton (U.S.)
6 min. 35 seconds behind
7
Ivan Basso (Italy)
8 min. 8 seconds behind
8
Christophe Moreau (France)
11 min. 12 seconds behind
9
Francisco Mancebo (Spain)
16 min. 5 seconds behind
10
Carlos Sastre (Spain)
16 min. 12 seconds behind
SOURCE: Associated Press
Dennehy family arrives in Waco
By Angela K. Brown
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WACO, Texas — After more than a
month of holding out hope that missing
Baylor basketball player Patrick
Dennehy would be found alive, his fam
ily went to his apartment to remove his
belongings Wednesday.
The police search for his body was
delayed because of rain Wednesday
morning, but authorities said they
planned to keep searching sites given to
them by Dennehy’s former teammate
and roommate, Carlton Dotson, now
charged with the murder.
Dennehy’s mother and stepfather,
Valorie and Brian Brabazon, along with
their daughter Wyn and the player’s girl
friend Jessica De La Rosa, went to the
third-floor apartment Wednesday, the
day after arriving in Waco.
The apartment complex — with well-
manicured lawns, swimming pool and
sand volleyball court — is across the
street from the gold-domed Ferrell
Center, where Dennehy hoped to play
this winter. He sat out last season after
transferring from New Mexico last year,
as mandated by NCAA rules.
Brian Brabazon said the group
planned to talk to police about the case
and tour the Baptist-affiliated Baylor
University campus. He declined further
comment.
“We appreciate your concern, but
today we’d like to do what we have to do
as a family,” he told news reporters gath
ered outside a Waco hotel.
Earlier Wednesday, Brabazon told
The Associated Press that Dennehy’s
mother was “very upset.” Since
Dennehy was last seen in mid-June, rela
tives have said they believed he could be
alive.
Two campus ministers spent several
hours with the family Wednesday, said a
Baylor spokeswoman, Lori Scott
Fogleman.
Brabazon said Wednesday that he
was not sure if the family would meet
with athletic department officials during
their Waco trip. He and his wife have
said that Dennehy had been threatened
shortly before his disappearance and
reported the threats to his coaches.
Basketball coach Dave Bliss has
denied those claims, and on Tuesday he
reiterated that Dennehy never reported
any threats to the coaching staff.
Brabazon also said police have told
family members that Dotson provided
investigators with three locations to
search for Dennehy’s body. Authorities
searched gravel pits south of Waco and
along the river banks Tuesday.
Dennehys girlfriend ineligible,
claims Baylor coach gave her cash
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) —
Jessica De La Rosa, a University of
New Mexico track athlete and girl
friend of missing Baylor basketball
player Patrick Dennehy, has been
declared ineligible by the NCAA.
De La Rosa is ineligible because she
violated an NCAA rule by accepting
money for transportation while in
Texas, said Janice Ruggiero, associate
athletics director and director of admin
istration and compliance at UNM.
Ruggiero said De La Rosa recent
ly informed UNM officials of the
violation.
De La Rosa, who was in Waco,
Texas, with Dennehy’s family on
Wednesday, told the Albuquerque
Tribune she accepted money “from
a member of the Baylor coaching
staff for a cab ride from Waco
(Texas) to Dallas” after visiting
Dennehy last season.
De La Rosa declined to identify
the coach and said she could not
comment further.
Ruggiero said the university
would not confirm or deny what De
La Rosa had told the newspaper.
Ruggiero said De La Rosa’s eligi
bility would likely be reinstated once
she repays the money. De La Rosa is
a hurdler, and the next indoor track
season begins in January.
“She may have to lose (sit out)
some competitions,” Ruggiero said.
“Once they make compensation,
they can be eligible.”
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