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Armstrong retains Tour De France lead
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-07 15:44

Lance Armstrong tried to start the day without the leader's yellow jersey on his back at the Tour de France. Race officials, though, wouldn't hear of it. So the 33-year-old Texan relented and then cruised to another day in the overall lead.

Armstrong had intended to keep the jersey off as a gesture of sportsmanship to honor the former bearer, who lost it when he crashed a day earlier. "It's nice to have the yellow jersey, but it's not critical. The one that matters the most is July 24th," he explained, referring to the last day of the grueling race.

The six-time defending Tour de France champion captured the race lead Tuesday from compatriot David Zabriskie, a Team CSC rider and former Armstrong teammate, who crashed into a barricade in the final moments of the team time trial.

Out of "respect" for Zabriskie, Armstrong set off in the pre-race ride wearing his blue and white Discovery Channel uniform but race officials stopped everybody before the starting line and asked Armstrong to put on le maillot jaune.

"There was no problem, just a little confusion in the beginning, having not started in the jersey," Armstrong said. "I didn't feel that it was right to start in the jersey."

Tour director Jean-Marie Leblanc then got strict about the rule book, which states that the overall race leader "must wear" the yellow jersey.

"There was no negotiation," Armstrong told France-2 television. "Jean-Marie said: 'You don't start in the jersey, and you don't start tomorrow.' So I said 'OK.'

"It didn't feel right to take the jersey on somebody else's misfortune, but Jean-Marie had other ideas," he said. "I wanted to try and do the right thing and make some sort of a sporting gesture."

Zabriskie expressed appreciation for it, and said Armstrong had spoken to him after the race: "He was nice."

Declining to wear the yellow jersey after its bearer crashes is nothing new. In 1971, the great Eddy Merckx took the race lead after a spill by Luis Ocana, but opted not to wear the jersey the next day. In 1998, Britain's Chris Boardman crashed in stage two and Germany's Erik Zabel decided not to don the yellow shirt for the third stage.


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