Every day, something new in the Tour de France. Totally unlike so many Tours in the past, where it seemed that someone got a 10-minute lead and went through the motions to get to Paris.
Today, Tyler Hamilton came from lagging behind the peleton (catching up through the assistance of his team) to going on a breakaway that lasted 140 kilometers and gave him a 2-minute win over the field. Amazing enough that someone could keep up a solo breakaway for that long and keep it for the win, but he's doing it with a collarbone fractured in two places from the crash in Stage 1, two weeks ago. He's moved up into 6th place with today's stage victory, and as he's a good individual time trialist, there's a chance he could make it into 3rd place by the end of the Tour. You really have to admire someone who can struggle through the pain he's suffered in this Tour.
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