Armstrong set for seventh tour victory

With just over half the Tour de France completed, Lance Armstrong is heading the leaderboard and rival 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.

Ullrich and the T-Mobile squad have been determined to make a concerted effort to remove American legend Lance Armstrong from his Tour de France throne and since Armstrong's DSC team has also had the misfortune of losing one of its members Manuel Beltran, although the safe bets are on Lance Armstrong to win a seventh tour, he can count on a week of tough riding first.

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