Sometimes, you have to work your brain to work your body better. Today, your library becomes a gym, a kitchen, and even a philosophy salon.聽Put your thinker through its paces聽with classic reads from wellness experts鈥攂ut first, read our takeaways from them.

Fuel Up on Food Facts

The Book: , by聽Dr. Louise Burke and Greg Cox (Allen & Unwin, $25)

The Sell: Knowing the nutritional requirements of your sport will maximize performance.

Burke and Cox Say: “This third edition transforms science into practice … taking a real-life look at the special nutritional needs of various sports.”

The Takeaway: It depends on what type of athlete you are.

• Cyclists: Caffeine is a legal performance-enhancing drug. When you feel fatigued training, drink a small dose (eight ounces鈥� a small cup of coffee).聽
• Runners: Pre-event meals are vital. For early-morning races, a light meal is fine. A couple of pieces of toast and an energy drink work well.聽
• Triathletes: It’s all about variety. Avoid pinning “good” or “bad” labels on food. Low-fat ice cream with fresh fruit, for example, is fine for a snack.
• Swimmers: You burn more calories than you realize. Pack in more energy content by adding layers and toppings to foods, like jam or syrup on toast or pancakes, and yogurt or fruit on cereal.

(Reviewed by Michael Webster)

Make Money Matter Less

The Book: , by Mark Boyle (Oneworld Publications, $22.95)

The Sell: Boyle, who went a year without spending a dollar, pushes the idea that a moneyless life can improve mental and physical health by giving you a true sense of community.

Boyle Says: “Living moneyless forces us to obtain the materials we need locally; it forces us to take responsibility for meeting our community鈥檚 needs; it forces us to have more appreciation for what we use.”

The Takeaway: You spend too much cash.

• For a month, record everything you spend. Then turn a critical eye to your list. Divide what you needed to spend鈥� on shelter and food鈥� from what you merely wanted to spend. Try to cut out some of the latter.
• Wealth isn鈥檛 all about money. You can spend more on what you want than what you need and still have too little of what counts: satisfaction.
• Depending on money to feed and house yourself means you stress about it, even if you鈥檝e got enough. If you try to provide the essentials by other means鈥攇ardening or bartering鈥攜ou鈥檒l worry less.
• Karma is real. If you give and receive more than you buy and sell, you鈥檒l find yourself a part of a community.

(Reviewed by Riley Blanton)

Make Peace with Yoga Poses

The Book: , by Claire Dederer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26)

The Sell: A skeptic discovers the benefits of yoga.

Dederer Says: “You can’t do yoga and be perfect at it. It confronts you with the messiness of reality.”

The Takeaway: Lessons learned on the mat are applicable in so many places other than yoga class.

• Yoga is relaxing. “You can let your mind wander, and it feels like you’re meditating,” says Dederer. “Nobody gets enough of that.”
• Fall down. “You are going to fall. It’s not a disaster, it’s just a fall. That can give you courage in other sports.”
• Yoga shows you where you’re weak. “If a person has tight shoulders, it could be because his back is compromised, and his back could be tender because he has tight hamstrings. Yoga tells you what the problem is.”
• Yoga helps with stress. “When you’re doing a really difficult arm balance, you’re learning to stick with difficult situations.”

(Reviewed by Will Taylor)

Get the Skinny on Fat

The Book: , by Gary Taubes (Knopf, $25)

The Sell: A science-based look at the causes of American weight gain.

Taubes Says: 鈥淪o many different belief systems enter into the question of what constitutes a healthy diet that the scientific question鈥� why do we get fat?鈥� has gotten lost along the way.鈥�

The Takeaway: Common tropes about fat, both the state of being and the macronutrient, don’t gel with our real fuel requirements.

• Think calorie quality, not quantity. The more refined the carb鈥� like sugar, potatoes, and white flour鈥� the more insulin you secrete. Insulin stores these carbs as fat.
• You crave refined carbs because your body knows these are the quickest fuel sources. Fight the urge. The less your refined-carb intake, the more your body learns to fuel itself on fat.
• Bacon is good! According to Taubes, higher-fat, lower-carb diets decrease triglyceride levels and increase HDL (鈥済ood鈥�) cholesterol.
• Eat these foods: Taubes recommends fresh meat and fish, eggs, green veggies, and lower-sugar fruits like wild berries, avocadoes, and figs.

(Reviewed by Nick Davidson)

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June 30, 2006 The top names in cycling are out of the Tour de France after the biggest scandal ever to hit cycling swept through the peloton on the eve of the sport’s marquee event. Pre-race favorites Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich have both been suspended, along with a growing list of other riders, after being named in a far-reaching Spanish investigation into doping and other banned techniques.

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Italian rider Ivan Basso (left) attending the team presentation ceremonies for the 2006 Tour de France in Strasbourg, France, on June 29.

Ullrich, who won the 1997 Tour, and Basso, winner of last month’s Giro d’Italia, were among 56 cyclists named in a Spanish investigation as having contact with Eufemiano Fuentes, a Spanish doctor charged with running a doping and blood-packing ring out of an apartment in Madrid. Blood packing is a banned technique in which an athlete’s blood is withdrawn and spun in a centrifuge to separate oxygen-carrying red blood cells, which are reinjected at a later date to deliver an untraceable performance boost.

“This development is not a shock, because it is something that we knew was coming,” UCI president Pat McQuaid told Cyclingnews.com Friday. “We have had indications as to who is going to be involved, and now we have the actual facts.”

Though none of the riders named in the investigation have been found guilty of cheating, their mere associations with the investigation—in a sport desperate to clean up its image—was enough to warrant their suspensions by their teams, according to several reports.

“The only thing I can tell you is that the information is clear enough and didn’t leave any doubt,” said Luuc Eisenga, spokesman for Jan Ullrich’s T-Mobile team, in an interview with the Associated Press.

Eisenga said the team received information, including documents from the Spanish government, implicating Ullrich and teammate Oscar Sevilla, along with sporting director Rudi Pevenage. Sevilla and Pevenage were also suspended.

Basso, second in last year’s Tour, had been picked by many to assume Lance Armstrong’s mantle as the world’s top cyclist. “It’s my responsibility to suspend Basso,” CSC director Bjarne Riis told The New York Times. “I need to think of the team—that’s the most important thing. I have confidence in Ivan. But it is up to him and his lawyers to prove these allegations false.”

Also named in the investigation are Francisco Mancebo, who finished fourth last year, Joseba Beloki, twice a third-place finisher in the Tour, and American Tyler Hamilton, who is currently serving a two-year ban for blood doping. Mancebo announced his retirement from cycling later in the day, according to Cyclingnews.com. None of the suspended Tour starters will be replaced, leaving the race with a shortened list of competitors as it gets under way with Saturday’s Prologue in Strasbourg.

“I hope we can all start serenely on Saturday,” Tour de France director Jean-Marie Leblanc told Cyclingnews.com. “This is an organized mafia that spreads doping practices. I hope we can clean up everything now; all the cheats should be kicked out. Then, maybe, we will get an open Tour with clean riders—a Tour in which there is space for ethics, sport, and entertainment.”

For more on the issue of drugs and cycling, read Brian Alexander’s July 2005 article , devoted to drug-testing expert Don Catlin. Then check out Stuart Stevens’s November 2003 piece about the effects of performance-enhancing drugs.

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In a head to head battle with every other rider in the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong won his first stage victory this year, proving he is the fastest cyclist on the French roads and the man who will cruise to victory tomorrow on the fabled Champs-Elysees.

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Armstrong racing St. Etienne time trial

Armstrong beat the next fastest cyclist, his longtime rival Jans Ullrich (T-Mobile), by 23 seconds in Saturday’s Stage 20 time trial. Ivan Basso (CSC), the rider in second place in the overall standings, was 1:54 back.


No one could come close to matching Armstrong’s pace over the 34.5-mile time trial course. And no one will threaten him as he pedals toward the top podium in Paris for a historic seventh time.


“I wanted to go as hard as I could and represent the yellow jersey. I honestly didn’t know if I could do it,” Armstrong told the Outdoor Life Network (OLN), calling the victory a “pleasant surprise.”


If it was a dream day for Armstrong, it was a nightmare for the rider in third place coming into the day, Mickael Rasmussen of Rabobank.


Already the winner of the king of the mountains competition, Rasmussen had hoped to fight off Ullrich and keep a place on the podium in Paris. But going around a roundabout just a few miles into the race, Rasmussen’s bike slipped out from under him and he skidded across the pavement.


It was only the beginning of a disastrous day that would include four bike changes and another serious fall for the Danish rider—a flight over his handlebars after ridding off the shoulder midway through the day.


Rasmussen finished 77th for the day, lost his hopes for third place, and dropped all the way down to seventh in the Tour overall.


Armstrong passed the roundabout with no delay, but crossed through the first time check a troubling seven seconds behind Ullrich, who Armstrong said yesterday had the best chance to win today.


“When I got to the first check, I thought this could be an interesting day,” Armstrong told OLN after the finish.


But Armstrong picked up the pace up the hill and over the final miles. By the 21-mile mark, he had 19 seconds on Ullrich, expanding that to a gap of 32 seconds three miles later. Finishing the day’s loop back into the streets of Saint-Etienne, he even launched a sprint, standing up to squeeze every last rotation out of his tires.


Armstrong afterwards said he his happy the end is in sight, where he will claim a historic seventh consecutive overall victory in the Tour de France.


“They are all special. The first one was incredibly special,” Armstrong told OLN, with his three children climbing on his back and around his knees. “This one is nice just to be done, to be retired, and move on in life and take care of these three guys.”


Rounding out the top riders of the day, Ullrich’s second place finish kept him ahead of the hard-charging Alexandre Vinokourov of T-Mobile, who finished third, 1:17 behind Armstrong. Team CSC’s Bobby Julich beat Basso, his captain, for fourth place, finishing 1:33 back. Basso crossed the line in fifth.


With champagne in hand tomorrow, Armstrong will have a four minute, forty second advantage on Basso, and 6:21 on Ullrich, with no challengers for the podium in sight. The fourth place rider, team Illes Balears’ Francisco Mancebo, is one second shy of ten minutes back.

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With a perfectly timed attack in the final mile, T-Mobile’s Giuseppe Guerini surprised a group of three riders to take Stage 19, the last long day of riding before the Tour de France rolls into Paris Sunday.

Giuseppe Guerini winning in Le Puy-en-Velay

The Italian had been part of a quartet that included Oscar Pereiro (Phonak), Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas Bianchi), and Sandy Casar (Francaise des Jeux) who led the day from the 19-mile mark, and broke away in the streets of Le Puy en Velay after 95 miles of hilly racing.


Behind them, Lampre-Caffita’s Salvatore Commesso was desperately trying to push a chase group up to the leaders. He attacked more than half-a-dozen times, each time quickly being reeled back into the group that dwindled from nine riders to five in the final miles.


At the same spot Guerini launched his successful bid for the line, Commesso surged again. This time it worked. No one chased the hard-working Italian as he sprinted alone into fifth place.


Lance Armstrong finished 56th, taking the same time as the rest of the swollen peloton, 4:31 behind the leaders. He keeps his comfortable 2:46 lead over Team CSC’s Ivan Basso going into tomorrow’s individual time trial—the penultimate stage before Paris.


Without a single stage win this year, Armstrong said he has no plans to try to prove anything.


“I haven’t won a race this year. You forget those things. It’s important but it’s not everything. If I get second and preserve the lead and maybe take some time from Ivan [Basso],” that will be fine, Armstrong told the Outdoor Life Network (OLN).


The overall standings remain unchanged with the exception of Pereiro, who bumped Christophe Moreau and is now in tenth place overall.


Pereiro, riding most of the day with Guerini’s group, led the peloton by almost nine minutes at one point. When it began to look like he might leapfrog Illes Balears’ top rider, Francisco Mancebo, into fifth place, the team pushed the peloton faster. They helped slash the leaders’ advantage in half, protecting Mancebo’s place as well as the four riders behind him.


The race for the green jersey is tightening with two days of sprinting to go. Credit Agricole’s Thor Hushovd is in the lead with 175 points, chased by Stuart O’Grady of Cofidis (160) and Robbie McEwen of Davitamon-Lotto (154), scrabbling for every point they can get.


McEwen beat his two rivals to the line, gaining an extra point on Hushovd and two on O’Grady.


By winning both intermediate sprints and finishing fourth for the day, Pereiro took home 32 points, rising into fourth place in the points standings with 118.

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Spaniard Marcos Serrano took advantage of an uphill finish to break away from two other riders, winning team Liberty Seguros its first victory over the 117-mile Stage 18. Six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong maintained what looks to be an insurmountable lead of 2:46 with four days to go.

Marcos Serrano

Marcos Serrano nears the Stage 18 finish line. The Spaniard’s win was the first for team Liberty Seguros at the year’s Tour.

Serrano was part of a lead pack that escaped the peloton after Carlos Da Cruz, of Francaise des Jeux, attacked at 23 miles. The last 1.5 miles of the stage featured a category two climb that Serrano used as a launch pad to crush Cedric Vasseur and Axel Merckx, the last two riders from the original pack, crossing the line without a challenger in sight.


In the race for third place, Vasseur jumped out of Merckx’s shadow just before the line to take the points and time bonus—as well as an angry dressing down by Merckx, who felt the French rider hadn’t done enough to share the work in the final miles.


Merckx, the son of five-time Tour winner great Eddy Merckx, had been favored to win the day, even by Lance Armstrong—who made his thoughts known to a reporter midway through the race.


Armstrong rode with his Discovery Channel team and main rivals, 12 minutes behind the leaders. He is sitting on a comfortable 2:46 lead over Team CSC’s Ivan Basso and has shown he does not intend to allow Basso to ever leave his sight.


Still, Armstrong forced the pack to accelerate over the final miles, and several of the Tour’s top riders could not keep pace. Only Basso, Jan Ullrich, and Cadel Evans—who dashed ahead of the Texan on the line to take 11th place—made it with Armstrong up the final climb. The rest lost considerable ground.


Among the top ten riders, Mickael Rasmussen (Rabobank), Francisco Mancebo (Illes Balears), Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner), and Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile) finished 37 seconds behind the yellow jersey.


Rasmussen clinched the polka-dot jersey today, 50 points ahead of Phonak’s Oscar Pereiro. Armstrong is in third in the category with 92 points.


Rasmussen is also 2:12 ahead of Ullrich in the fight for the third place podium finish in Paris.

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Paolo Savoldelli put another feather in team Discovery Channel’s cap with a win today in the longest day of the Tour—the marathon, 148-mile Stage 17 from Pau to Revel.

Peloton racing by sunflowers

Peloton racing by sunflowers

The 32-year-old Italian joined a 17-rider breakaway at 19 miles that opened a cavernous gap in front of the peloton, as much as 24 minutes ahead. In the final mile, Savoldelli ran down the desperate attack by Team CSC’s Kurt-Asle Arvesen and out-sprinted him to the finish line after more than five hours, 41 minutes of racing.


Savoldelli, the two-time winner of the Giro d’Italia, is the second Discovery Channel team rider to win a stage this year.


Though Lance Armstrong finished more than 22 minutes behind the lead group, he started the day well ahead in the overall classifications and remains in the yellow jersey. However, a strong push by Jan Ullrich, Alexandre Vinokourov, and several other riders looking to improve their chances at a podium finish forced Discovery to work hard in the final miles.


“It looked like it was going to be an easy day but it turned into a hard day in the end,” Discovery Channel’s George Hincapie told the Outsdoor Life Network (OLN). “We just set a high tempo so they couldn’t attack.”


The pace dropped Phonak’s Floyd Landis and Davitamon-Lotto’s Cadel Evans 1.5 miles from the finish. Both lost time in the overall standings, slipping behind Vinokourov, who is now in seventh place, 9:38 behind Armstrong.


The top six overall leaders finished in the same group and received identical times. Armstrong is still 2:46 ahead of second-placed rider Ivan Basso, and 3:09 ahead of third-placed rider Mickael Rasmussen (Rabobank), the leader in the climbing competition.


Along with three stage victories and Armstrong’s yellow jersey, Discovery Channel’s Yaroslav Popovych has claim to the white jersey.


Though he led the team to a slim victory in the team time trial in Stage 4, in which they set a Tour record for the fastest average speed, Armstrong still hasn’t won an individual stage this year.


“I’m not bummed at all,” Armstrong told OLN. “It just keeps getting better.”


The Tour also suffered yet another rider loss today. One of Armstrong’s top rivals last year, T-Mobile’s Andreas Kloden, who was in 11th place overall coming into the day and finished second to Armstrong in 2004, abandoned the race today. He broke a bone in his wrist in a crash yesterday.

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Spain’s Oscar Pereiro overcame a punctured tire in the final miles of Stage 16 to catch a breakaway group of three riders, then out-sprint them in the home stretch to capture his first-ever stage victory.

Pereiro atop Col d'Aubisque en route to winning the stage today in Pau

Pereiro atop Col d’Aubisque en route to winning the stage today in Pau

Robbed of a victory Sunday by Discovery Channel’s George Hincapie, who forced the Spaniard to exhaust himself in the lead over the final miles, Peiero used similar tactics today to wear down Australian Cadel Evans,(Davitamon Lotto), who led through the final miles.

Wearing a black armband in memory of fellow Australian cyclist Amy Gillett, who died in Germany yesterday, Evans launched out of a lead group of ten after 62 miles to take the lead for himself. He was caught by the 80-mile mark by Eddy Mazzoleni (Lampre Caffita), Xabier Zandio (Illes Balears), and Peiero, who later punctured a tire and had to catch Evans a second time.

But Evans, coming into the day in 11th pace, refused to share the lead as the four entered the flat streets of Pau, keeping the pace fast to gain as much time as possible over the Tour’s overall leaders.

Though he finished fourth for the day, behind the three other riders he was pacing, the 3:24 he earned over Armstrong bumped him into seventh place, just seconds ahead of Phonak’s Floyd Landis and T-Mobile’s Alexandre Vinokourov.

With no changes among the top six riders, Armstrong remains 2:46 ahead of CSC’s Ivan Basso, and 3:09 ahead of Mickael Rasmussen with just five days of racing to go. T-Mobile’s Jan Ullrich and Francisco Mancebo of Illes Balears round out the top five.

Armstrong stayed tucked in his usual spot near the front of the peloton today, letting other teams like T-Mobile work hard to keep Evans from smashing his way even higher up in the standings.

“I don’t know why, but it was an amazing day today,” Armstrong told the Outdoor Life Network (OLN). “Today there was no chain on the bike…I felt amazing.”

Rasmussen kept the polka dot jersey over the last of the Tour’s mountains, with Pereiro 50 points back.

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After selflessly pacing teammate Lance Armstrong through six Tour de France victories, George Hincapie got the chance to raise his arms across the finish line for the first time, winning his first-ever Tour de France stage victory on the 127-mile Stage 15, through the worst of the Pyrenees.

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George Hincapie at the finish line.

Hincapie, a support rider with team Discovery Channel, was given the green light to leave Armstrong and chase a group of 14 riders that launched an early attack after about 18 miles of racing. He never left them.


With 2.8 miles to go, and the pack whittled to just four riders, Oscar Pereiro of Phonak tried to drop the 32-year-old New York native with a sudden burst of speed, but Hincapie went with him, pacing Pereiro pedal for pedal into the final 1,000 feet, then blasting ahead for the win.


Hincapie is the first teammate of Armstrong’s to win a stage victory since Armstrong began his series of six consecutive Tour victories in 1999.


“I’m in shock right now. This is unbelievable,” Hincapie told the Outdoor Life Network after the race. “I was about to cross the line and just the emotion you feel, it’s indescribable.”


Armstrong rode conservatively, several minutes behind the leaders, in a star-studded chase group composed of team CSC’s Ivan Basso, Phonak’s Floyd Landis, Gerolsteiner’s Levi Leipheimer, T-Mobile’s Jan Ullrich and Andreas Kloden, and team Rabobank’s Mickael Rasmussen, who was in second place overall at the start of the day. All were packed into a tight chase group that slowly thinned over the second to last climb of the day with 16 miles to go.


With a little more than four miles left, Basso attacked the rest of the group, forcing Armstrong to follow. The two shared the lead into the final 1,000 feet, with Armstrong right on Basso’s wheel, poised for a sprint to the finish line that never came. With no points or time advantage at stake, Armstrong allowed Basso to cross the line for sixth place without a challenge.


Rasmussen has lost his hold on second place to the consistently hard-charging Basso, who is now Armstrong’s closest threat, 2:46 behind. Rasmussen, still wearing the polka dot climber’s jersey, is in third place, 3:09 back, followed by Ullrich (5:58) and Illes Balears’ Francisco Mancebo (6:31).


Tomorrow, riders will rest in preparation for the final of three days in the Pyrenees, Tuesday’s 112-mile ride from Mourenx to Pau, over the final mountains of the Tour.

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Austrian Georg Totschnig (Gerolsteiner) was the last cyclist to survive a 15-man breakaway group in Stage 14 Saturday, crossing the finish line first almost a minute ahead of six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong on a hot, grueling first day in the Pyrenees.

Georg Totschnig wins Stage 14 in the Pyrenees.

Georg Totschnig wins Stage 14 in the Pyrenees.

On the finish line, Totschnig pounded his helmet in seeming disbelief at his first-ever Tour stage victory, and the first for Austria since 1931. He fell to the ground in tears, his legs unable to hold him up after five hours, 43 minutes of mountain racing.


Totschnig had been part of a group that attacked just four miles into the race, and held on over the next 133 miles for the win.


In the chase group, Armstrong decimated his main rivals up the final climb to finish second, capturing a 12-second time bonus and gaining ground over every top-placed rider in the Tour.


One by one, Tour titans Alexandre Vinokourov, Mickael Rasmussen, Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer, and Jan Ullrich were dropped by Armstrong’s furious uphill pace, leaving only Team CSC’s Ivan Basso left for Armstrong to out-sprint in the final 1,000 feet.


Armstrong had little help from his teammates. Crushed by an early attack by team T-Mobile, the Discovery Channel team disintegrated midway through the race, leaving Armstrong to fend for himself among his would-be usurpers over the day’s two major climbs.


In the overall standings, Armstrong gained one minute and two seconds on Rabobank’s Rasmussen, the current king of the mountains, and closest rider to Armstrong in the standings, 1:41 behind.


Basso trails Armstrong by 2:46, while Ullrich, Landis, and Leipheimer are all more than 4:30 back.


Tomorrow the Tour tackles its fiercest mountain stage. Riders will climb more than 16,000 vertical feet over 128 miles. There are six climbs, five of which are category one or above.

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On a hot, flat day of racing tailor-made for sprinters, Australian Robbie McEwen bided his time and then unleashed a furious dash for the win in Stage 13 Friday, passing two riders who had set the pace for most of the day on the 108-mile road from Miramas to Montpellier, and beating green jersey rivals Stuart O’Grady and Thor Hushovd.

Robbie McEwen

Australian Robbie McEwen won his third stage of the Tour de France Friday.

McEwen advances in the points standings but remains in third place among the field of sprinters 22 points behind Hushovd, as the Tour climbs again into the mountains.


There were no changes in the overall lead Friday as the peloton shrugged off an attack by five low-placed riders, including American Christopher Horner (Saunier Duval) and Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel of Cofidis, who put 9:20 on the peloton around the 31-mile mark.


The two exhausted riders were still in the lead with less than a quarter mile to go, positioning for the sprint, when they were overtaken by McEwen and the speeding peloton. Horner finished tenth for the day, while Chavanel finished 16th.


Lance Armstrong, still in the yellow jersey he’s worn for all but four stages, kept to his usual position near the front of the peloton, his 38-second advantage over number two rider Rabobank’s Mickael Rasmussen under no threat today.


Stage 10 winner Alejandro Valverde, the 25-year-old Spaniard who sported the white jersey for the past three days as the Tour’s youth leader, abandoned the race today complaining of illness.


Team Discovery Channel’s Yaroslav Popovych, 25, who had been trailing Valverde by 3:09, will inherit the lead in the youth category. However, Kazakhstan’s Andrey Kashechkin (Credit Agricole) is just seven seconds off Popovych’s rear wheel.


Valverde is the second jersey rider in two days to throw in the towel. Yesterday, points leader Tom Boonen (Quick Step) pulled out on the starting line due to a knee injury, passing the green jersey he’s virtually owned since Stage 2 to Hushovd.


Discovery Channel’s Manuel Beltran, who knocked his head in a crash yesterday and withdrew from the race, is reportedly in fair health, Discovery Channel spokesman Dan Osipow told the Outdoor Life Network, though Osipow said Beltran still does not remember the crash.


Tomorrow, the Tour swings into the Pyrenees for three days, stages Armstrong has used to widen his lead in previous years.

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