Tour De France 2005 : SI.com - More Sports - 2005 Tour de France - Weening wins stage, but Armstrong still leads - Saturday July 9, 2005 12:38PM
Lance leads
Weening wins 8th stage, but Armstrong still in yellow
Posted: Saturday July 9, 2005 11:31AM; Updated: Saturday July 9, 2005 12:47PMGERARDMER, France (AP) -- Lance Armstrong kept his overall lead in the Tour de France on Saturday despite what he said was a bad day for his team and fierce challenges in the race's hardest mountain climb so far.
Dutch rider Pieter Weening of the Rabobank team won the eighth stage in a sprint against Andreas Kloeden, last year's Tour runner-up.
Armstrong, bidding for a seventh straight title before retirement after the three-week race, finished in 20th place. He and key rivals Jan Ullrich and Alexandre Vinokourov had the same time, riding in behind the two leaders in a pack.
Armstrong remained 1 minute, 2 seconds ahead of Vinokourov, who is third overall. Armstrong is 1:36 ahead of Ull
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