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A great day of racing still shrouded by veil of suspicion

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, July 22, 2007

FOIX, France -- Late Sunday afternoon, about a mile from the finish line atop Plateau de Beille near the Spanish border, the two men who are now in the best position to win the Tour de France had a short conversation only they could hear. Michael Rasmussen is the Danish leader of a Dutch team whose wife is Mexican. Alberto Contador is a Spaniard who rides for the American-owned Discovery Channel team. We don't know how effective their verbal communication might have been, but the universal sig ...

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