Tour De France 2005 : Armstrong Holds Off Attackers
Armstrong Holds Off Attackers
Tour champ extends lead as Austrian wins stage
By Joe 'Lindsey, Contributing Writer
July 16, 2005Isolated and under attack, six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) didn�t panic and didn�t try to respond with a knockout punch of his own. Instead, the American simply played defense until he saw a moment of weakness in his rivals.
On today�s 14th stage, Armstrong rebounded from early attacks and the loss of his teammates to an almost perfect finish, taking second on the stage behind only Georg Totschnig of Gerolsteiner, the lone survivor of a marathon breakaway that went up the road just 10 kilometers into the day�s 220.5-kilometer ride from Agde to the mountaintop finish of Ax-3 Domaines. In so doing, Armstrong gained time on every one of his rivals for the overall Tour title and sent a message: Either alone or with teammates, he appears all but impossible to beat.
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