Sentence examples for straight tours from inspiring English sources

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.

One part of the evidence file made public on Wednesday by the anti-doping agency was a transcript of Lance Armstrong's sworn deposition in a 2005 law suit his company brought against SCA Promotions, a firm that had promised to pay the cyclist millions of dollars in bonus money if he managed to win five straight Tours de France.

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.

Lance Armstrong of the United States Postal Service team, who will try to win a third straight Tour de France starting July 7, won the Tour de Suisse yesterday.

Lance Armstrong easily won the time trial prologue of the Tour de Suisse, his final tuneup for an attempt at a third straight Tour de France title.