PARIS: Sipping champagne to celebrate his victory, Lance Armstrong won his hardest but sweetest Tour de France title yesterday – a record-tying fifth straight win that places him alongside the greatest cyclists in the sport.
The 31-year-old cancer survivor and Spanish great Miguel Indurain are now the only two riders to win the sport's most gruelling and prestigious race five times straight – a record Armstrong plans to break next year.
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