Lance Armstrong has plenty of work to do if he wants to win a seventh straight Tour de France.
Armstrong finished a disappointing ninth in yesterday's time trial at the Tour de Georgia, nearly two minutes behind the winner in an all-out style of cycling he usually dominates.
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A brief look at Sunday's 20th stage of the Tour de France:
• Stage: 101.29 miles from Montereau to the Champs-Elysees.
• Winner: Tom Boonen, Belgium, Quick Step-Davitamon, 4 hours, 8 minutes, 26 seconds.
• How Others Fared: Lance Armstrong, United States, US Postal-Berry Floor, 114th, same time. Jan Ullrich, Germany, T-Mobile Team, 32nd, same time.
• Yellow Jersey: Armstrong.
• Quote of the Day: "I love the Tour de France. It's my buddy." -- Armstrong, who became the first rider to ever win the Tour six times.
• Results, overall standings
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• The Post's Sally Jenkins took questions July 26.
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• Armstrong attempts what no man has yet accomplished -- a sixth consecutive Tour de France win.
• The heroes ride cycles instead of steeds, but the Tour de France is an epic saga.
• News Graphic: The members of Armstrong's team and their roles.
• Organizers have backloaded this year's 2,106-mile course so that Armstrong can't build an early lead and coast to his sixth win in a row.
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• Video: The Post's Sally Jenkins on Lance Armstrong.
• Photos from the final stage of Armstrong's victory.
• Photos from this year's race.
• Photos from Armstrong's '03 win.
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Another American, Floyd Landis, won the third stage in 39 minutes 58.09 seconds. The other spots on the podium also were claimed by U.S. riders -- David Zabriskie in second and Christopher Baldwin third.
"Clearly, I'm disappointed," said Armstrong, who could only manage a time of 41:44.87.
Armstrong plans to retire this summer after going for a seventh straight victory in the Tour de France. He's the only cyclist to win the world's most famous race six times.
The Tour de Georgia, a race he won a year ago, is a tuneup along the way, a six-day chance for Armstrong to gauge his conditioning against the best field that will be assembled on American roads.
• OBITUARIES: Former Virginia Union cornerback and NFL player Michael Brim died in a shootout with another man in Richmond. He was 39.
Richmond police say Brim had been involved in a dispute with Gary Miles, 42, over a woman. Police found Brim about 10 p.m. Tuesday with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest in Miles's brother's driveway.
Police said Miles suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. He is listed in serious condition at VCU Medical Center. . . .
Houston Nutt Sr., the father of four college coaches and the only person to play for basketball coaching greats Adolph Rupp at Kentucky and Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M, died Wednesday in Little Rock following a stroke. He was 74.
Nutt was the father of Arkansas football coach Houston Nutt Jr. and Arkansas State basketball coach Dickey Nutt. Another son, Dennis Nutt, is the basketball coach at Texas State and son Danny Nutt is an assistant football coach at Arkansas.
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