Sentence examples for straight tour from inspiring English sources

Photo: Lance Armstrong (yellow jersey) won his seventh straight Tour de France in Paris yesterday.

Armstrong won the Dauphiné Libéré yesterday, his last tuneup race before bidding for a fourth straight Tour title.

Levi Leipheimer won his second straight Tour of the Gila in New Mexico, holding off Tom Danielson by 59 seconds while his teammate Lance Armstrong finished 17th.

Clearly more interested in talking over Lance Armstrong's chances of a sixth straight Tour de France victory, Mr. Kerry nonetheless kept coming back to his looming homework assignment.

The toxic reality of drugs in cycling will be present for the next three weeks as Armstrong tries to win his sixth straight Tour de France.

This year the promoters of the race have tricked up the fabled ascent, just to make Monsieur Lance Armstrong work for his sixth straight Tour victory.

The world knows he won seven straight Tours, he says, and that is good enough for him.

But he is a close friend of Armstrong, who has won four straight Tours since recovering from cancer.

You now need to shift to other sports — Lance Armstrong's seven straight Tours de France come to mind — to find equivalents.

In hindsight, a lot of reasons suggest themselves; 125 million of them, you might say, one for each of the dollars Armstrong earned over a starry career in which he survived cancer to "win" seven straight Tours de France.

And although he does not look yet like the hard man who won a record seven straight Tours de France from 1999 to 2005, he has hardly looked out of place here.