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Fox Sports reporting Lance Armstrong has won his 7th Tour de France. Here's to an incredible athlete.

  Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:48 p.m. EDTJohn Kerry Outed Undercover CIA Agent Sen. John Kerry, who called for Karl Rove to be fired over allegations that he revealed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, outed a genuine undercover CIA agent just this past April - even after the agency asked that his identity be kept secret. Kerry blew the cover of CIA secret operative Fulton Armstrong during confirmation hearings for U.N. ambassador nominee John Bolton. Questioning Bolton, Kerry asked: "Did Otto Reich share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed for his position?" - according to...

Friendly competitors Six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong wearing the best sprinter's green jersey, shakes hand with overall leader and fellow countryman David Zabriskie, prior to the second stage of the Tour de France. (Christophe Ena/Associated Press) Pack riding The pack rides through Talmont-Saint-Hilaire. (Christophe Ena/Associated Press)

Lance Armstrong was threatened with expulsion from the Tour de France if he did not don the leader's yellow jersey. Armstrong wanted to make a "sporting gesture" on Wednesday after David Zabriskie lost the lead in a crash. But director Jean-Marie Leblanc stopped the race at the start of the 113.7-mile ride from Chambord to Montargis. "It didn't feel right to take the jersey on somebody else's misfortune, but Jean-Marie had other ideas," said Armstrong after retaining the lead. I wanted to try and do the right thing and make some sort of a sporting gesture Lance Armstrong The Texan...

Dave Zabriskie stepped out of the Team CSC bus to find reporters waiting for him yet again, but this time he wasn't sporting the yellow jersey. The morning after his painful crash in the closing kilometers of Tuesday's dramatic team time trial, Zabriskie thankfully was able to push on. "It's stiff. It's a little hard to breathe, my knee is painful," Zabriskie said before the start. "That's what happens when you fall off." Much to the relief of his teammates, the smile was back on Zabriskie's face. He was devastated after costing Team CSC the jersey with his unlucky crash....

Only three km longer than last years team time trial, this years TTT follows the either side of the River Loire for the better part of the stage, and again looks perfectly suited to the powerhouse of Tour Time Trials, the Discovery Channel.Look to the fast and furious Phonak squad led by Floyd Landis and Santiago Botero, and Team CSC who have been performing consistently so far out of the blocks this season for competition. In 2004, US Postal excelled in the wet conditions as T-Mobile faltered in the rain.If it's dry in 2005 there won't be much seperating the...

Stage 2 is under way.

David Zabriskie has won the stage. Armstrong takes the second place 2" behind. Final rankings of stage 1: 1. David Zabriskie (USA-CSC) 20'51", 2. Lance Armstrong (USA-DSC) + 2", 3. Alexandre Vinokourov (KAZ-TMO) + 53", 4. George Hincapie (USA-DSC) + 55", 5. Lazslo Bodrogi (HUN-C.A) + 59", 6. Floyd Landis (USA-PHO) + 1'02", 7. Fabien Cancellara (SWI-FAS) + 1'02", 8. Jens Voigt (GER-CSC) + 1'04", 9. Vladimir Karpets (RUS-IBL) + 1'05", 10. Igor Gonzalez Galdeano (ESP-LSW) + 1'06".

I will be gone most of today (family get-together this afternoon and Red Sox game in Boston tonight), but here are a few useful links to enhance your enjoyment of Stage 1 of Tour de France 2005:Tour de France - Stage 1 Live Coverage (VeloNews.com) Tour de France 2005 - The Route (www.letour.fr/2005 - official Tour de France site) Stage 1 - Saturday, July 2: Fromentine - Noirmoutier-en-l'Ile ITT, 19 km (CyclingNews.com)OLNtv.com (Outdoor Life Network - they seem to be having trouble with their website right now... check back later)

Lance Armstrong's black eye was mostly healed by Thursday's pre-Tour de France press conference, but he still sported a few small cuts, legacy of a training crash last week that put him over the handlebars and cracked the six-times Tour winner's helmet in two. Not to be outdone, Jan Ullrich crashed into the back of his T-Mobile team car while out training. Ullrich was motorpacing behind directeur sportif Mario Kummer when Kummer braked hard on a stretch of wet pavement. Ullrich hit the back window, shattering it, but sustained little more than a few cuts and claimed to be fine....

CHALLANS, France (AFP) - Reigning champion Lance Armstrong of the United States was given a surprise anti-doping test on the eve of the Tour de France, race sources revealed. The test was carried out in the afternoon by doctors from the French sports ministry. Cycling's world governing body UCI decides which riders will undergo spot tests from both blood and urine samples during the three week race. All 189 riders on the Tour de France were Thursday declared fit to race after blood tests showed no doping. Armstrong opens his bid for a seventh consecutive crown Saturday in the opening...

Time is running out for Jan Ullrich. For the past six years, the German cyclist has been the foil of Lance Armstrong, finishing second to the Texan three times and fourth once on his sport's grandest stage, the Tour de France. As Ullrich sees it, this is his last great chance, not to win the Tour for a second time -- at 31 he still has a couple more good racing years left in his legs -- but to get the better of his nemesis Armstrong, who plans to retire from professional cycling on July 24, the day the three-week-long...

My Meeting with Dave Armstrong. It finally happened! On a recent business trip I made to Detroit (aka "Mo-town"), I set aside a few hours to meet and get acquainted with the famed and prolific Catholic writer and apologist, Dave Armstrong, as well as his lovely family. It is easy to form opinions of people from what one reads on-line. Many times, literary personalities are quite different from the one's live persona. That has happened to me, and as a matter of personal policy, I myself try not to fall into the same error. This is an error many fall...

OJAI, Calif. (AP) - Lance Armstrong was a surprise entry at a cycling race, stunning riders at the line minutes before the start and then finishing 15th in the Lemire Memorial Grand Prix. Wearing a blue and white jersey, the Tour de France champion took his place with others for the 90-minute criterium race through rural Ventura County on Sunday. Armstrong, who rarely rides in the United States, is tuning up for an attempt this summer for a record seventh straight title at the Tour de France. He is scheduled to ride in the Tour of Georgia on April 19-24....

TONIGHT: Tuesday, March 22, 2004 10:00 p.m. Central Time (Milwaukee area)TITLE: "INSIDE THE LIVING CHURCH OF GOD" Inside the Living Church of God Tonight at live at 10:00,what really goes on inside The Living Church of God? A warning from former members, new tonight live at 10:00 on TODAY'S TMJ4.WTMJ TV investigative news reporter has done some in-depth investigation of the sect (mainline Christian denominations refer to it as a 'cult') which was the site, in a Brookfield, Wisconsin hotel, of a mass shooting by Living Church of God church member Terry Ratzmann earlier this month.Bump for those in...

About a year later, driving a company Jaguar, he gave me a tour of the England campus of the church's Ambassador College, which was closed and would ultimately be sold. Five years after that day, I shook the dust of Herbert Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God, the church where Meredith was a high official, from my shoes. I eventually became an evangelical, and swore off Armstrong's iconoclastic beliefs that Anglo-Saxons were descended from the "lost" tribes of Israel, that Old Testament feast days were to be preferred, birthdays shunned, and politics avoided—along with the Trinity, "unclean" foods, most medicines, and...

PARIS (AP) - There's no stopping Lance Armstrong at six when seventh heaven beckons. The only six-time winner of the Tour de France ended speculation that he would skip cycling's most prestigious race by announcing on Wednesday he'll be back this July in France for another bite of the cherry. Armstrong's 2005 race schedule "will include this summer's Tour de France where he will go for a seventh straight victory," said his Discovery Channel team's Web site. The American will be nearly 34 — too old, surely, to win the grueling three-week race again? But doubters said that last year,...

Kidnappers beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley after twice releasing videos in which he wept and pleaded with Prime Minister Tony Blair for his life. A U.S. official said Friday there was credible information that Bigley had tried to escape with the aid of one of his captors. The attempt failed and Bigley was killed a short time later as was shown on a video of his beheading, the Washington official said on condition of anonymity. There was no word on the fate of his captor. A Western official in Baghdad refused to talk about the escape attempt report. The 62-year-old...

The fact is, I run a small business. I am CEO and manage the syndication and advertising for my television show. In between juggling my commentaries and media appearances, I stepped over the line. This has never happened before. In fact, my company has never worked on a government contract. Nor have we ever received compensation for an issue that I subsequently reported on. This will never happen again. I now realize that I have to create inseparable boundaries between my role as a small businessman and my role as an independent commentator.

Years ago, when I used to write a column for the L.A. Times, there was one publicity agent who was constantly after me to interview her clients. I kept refusing. It was nothing personal. It just so happened that all of her clients were rock 'n' roll musicians, and I hated rock 'n' roll. One day, after a few years of this routine, I asked her why she had never offered me a bribe. I pointed out that most of her clients could well afford to slip me a couple of thousand dollars if it was so darn important that...