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SPORT Armstrong's Tour de France Lance Armstrong joined cycling's elite club with a fifth victory at the Tour de France, the world's most prestigious cycle race. In winning the event, the 32-year-old American became only the second rider to score five straight Tour victories after Spain's Miguel Indurain. Armstrong's fifth triumph was the hardest of all. He had to battle all the way in the 3,426 kilometers of the 2003 Tour before placing ahead of Germany's Jan Ullrich by a mere 76 seconds overall. Alexander Vinokourov of Kazakhistan was third. Armstrong, who became a hero to millions of cancer victims and other sportsmen (on a Paris-New York flight in November, tennis world no 1 Andy Roddick read half of Lance's memoir, oblivious to everything else) after battling cancer in 1996, has promised to be back in 2004 for an unprecedented sixth victory. Text: Ivan Crasto The great survivor
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