Lance Armstrong yesterday took what for him is a near-unprecedented decision and quit a stage race because of illness. Armstrong abandoned the Paris-Nice stage race - second only to the Tour de France in terms of prestige in that country - suffering from fever and a sore throat. He was lying 61st.
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