Cycling Tour de France 2003 part 2

The 2003 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 5 July to 27 July 2003, and the 90th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner-although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999-2005; the Union Cycliste Internationale has confirmed this verdict.
The event started and ended in Paris, covering 3,427.5 km (2129.75 mi), proceeding clockwise in twenty stages around France, including six major mountain stages. Due to the centennial celebration, this edition of the tour was raced entirely in France and did not enter neighboring countries.
In the centenary year of the race the route recreated, in part, that of 1903. There was a special Centenaire Classement prize for the best-placed in each of the six stage finishes which match the 1903 tour - Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes and Paris. It was won by Stuart O'Grady, with Thor Hushovd in second place. The 2003 Tour was honored with the Prince of Asturias Award for Sport.
Of the 198 riders the favorite was again Armstrong, aiming for a record equalling fifth win. Before the race, it was believed that his main rivals would include Iban Mayo, Aitor González, Tyler Hamilton, Ivan Basso, Gilberto Simoni, Jan Ullrich, and Joseba Beloki but Armstrong was odds-on favorite. Though he did go on to win the race, it is statistically, and by Armstrong's own admission, his weakest Tour from his seven-year period of dominance over the race.

[@kairother1080]

stage that i never will forget, was a 10 year old young boy and this tour de france 2003 was everything to me.. cheering for ulrich... such a great battle.. even if all doped, it was such a fight, so great characters...
beloki legend, the crash ruined his career, vinokourov the ivan drago :D
tyler the gladiator,
mayo, zubeldia, mancebo, sastre the spain climbing aces
and the young ivan basso...
heras was probably the 2nd best climber in this grand tour..
ulrich alway with the big gears and armstrongs way to attack with this high cadence..
loved the euskaltel jersey
great upload, thx crazy memories :)

[@michaelhazell1642]

Awesome bike rider paste maker

[@ricardofeitosarevisoesembi3295]

Very good,Petachi +++++

[@stijnhulsebos7442]

Good riding from us postal and Veronique

[@alandowney5851]

1:10.06 - in ‘The Secret Race’ Tyler Hamilton describes this as the moment when the blood transfusion he had the previous night enabled him to regain contact after the US Postal attack at the foot of The Alpe.

[@jeffw9465]

Does the riding bar still exist in the peleton and if not why?

[@oldtwinsna8347]

Hold the Mayo! He doped.