With just over half the tour completed, Lance Armstrong is heading the leaderboard and Jan Ullrich is 4 minutes behind in 9th place. However, Jan Ullrich's fellow TMO team members Andréas Klöden and Alexandre Vinokourrov are sitting in places 10 and 12; contrast Lance Armstrong whose nearest fellow team member is Yaroslav Popovych at 15 and behind him George Hincapie at 24.
Armstrong's DSC team has also had the misfortune of losing one of its members Manuel Beltran so, although the safe bets are on Lance Armstrong to win a seventh tour, he can look forward to a week of tough riding first.Follow the riders on an excellent
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