For Lance Armstrong, who now has the Tour de France well in hand with one week to go, Sunday's Pla-d'Adet stage was a trip through his cycling past. The initial descent of Sunday's stage on the Col du Portet d'Aspet was the scene of Armstrong's first encounter with mortality and the fragility of life.
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