Tour de France, day 4 - Armstrong Takes the Lead

July 5th, 2005

Filed under: General

The Discovery Channel Team won the Team Time Trial today, letting Lance Armstrong take the overall points lead and the yellow jersey. Their main rivals, Team CSC, finished just 2 seconds behind, but Dave Zabriskie — who had the points lead going into the day — crashed and finished over a minute behind the rest of his team.

Now that Armstrong has the yellow jersey, the question is whether or not the Discovery Channel Team will fight to keep it this early on, or let another team take it for a few stages, then attempt to reclaim it in the mountains. I suspect the latter, because it takes a lot of energy to fight to keep the jersey this early on.

Tomorrow’s Stage 5 is another mostly flat stage favoring the sprinters.

American Racers

Overall Standings
Change in Standings
Stage 4
Team Results
Name
Team
Overall
Time
Time Gain
1.
+1
1.
Armstrong
DSC
-
+0:02
2
+3
1.
Hincapie
DSC
+0:55
+0:02
4.
+7
2.
Julich
CDC
+1:07
-
9.
-8
2.*
Zabriskie
CSC
+1:26
-1:26
20.
-14
5.
Landis
PHO
+1:50
-0:42
28.
-13
8.
Leipheimer
GRL
+2:31
-1:08
68.
-3
11.
Rodriguez
SAD
+3:57
-1:48
103.
-49
20.
Horner
DVL
+4:54
-2:53
142.
+32
14.
Trenti
QST
+5:39
-2:08

*Zabriskie finished 1:26 behind the rest of his team

 

Discovery Channel Team Racers

Overall Standings
Change in Standings
Stage 4
Team Results
Name
Country
Overall
Time
Time Gain
1.
+1
1.
Armstrong
USA
-
+0:02
2.
+3
1.
Hincapie
USA
+0:55
+0:02
5.
+12
1.
Rubiera
Spain
+1:14
+0:02
6.
+12
1.
Popovych
Ukraine
+1:16
+0:02
8.
+16
1.
Noval
Spain
+1:26
+0:02
12.
+20
1.
Padrnos
Czechoslovakia
+1:32
+0:02
13.
+20
1.
Savoldeli
Italy
+1:33
+0:02
16.
+19
1.
Azevado
Portugal
+1:37
+0:02
23.
+49
1.
Beltran
Spain
+2:12
+0:02

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