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Old 08-06-09 | 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Mr_Christopher
I was out on a ride the other night with some guys in their 20s-30s and one guy told me lance lost the TdF by a few 1/1000s of a single second. he was serious. I told him lance actually lost by several minutes and he said he thought CNN said 1/1000s of a second. .
Probably heard a report after the stage where Armstrong missed taking the jersey by a fraction of a second. That bit of information then gets distorted. But it does show how close average folks, even cyclists, pay attention to the TDF.
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