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Lance Armstrong from Austin Texas, left, talks with German champion Jan Ullrich, right, as U.S. Postal Service team director Johan Bruyneel of Belgium, center, looks on, in this Oct. 23, 2003, file photo taken in Paris. Ullrich hopes to be on top of the podium when the Tour de France ends in Paris on July 25, 2004. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)