Tour de France

* Stage 19: Saturday’s individual time trial took riders over 34.5 miles of flat roads from Cognac to Angouleme.

* Winner: American rider Levi Leipheimer of the Discovery Channel team won in 1 hour 2 minutes 44 seconds.

* Yellow jersey: Alberto Contador of the Discovery Channel team kept the overall lead, and the 24-year-old Spaniard will probably win the Tour today barring a crash.

* Quote of the day: “I don’t think it’s fair, but if I have to then I’ll take it.” -- Contador, when asked whether he would take a blood test to prove that his DNA is not linked to the Operation Puerto blood-doping case.

* Next stage: Today’s 20th and final stage is a 90.7-mile ride starting from France’s rugby center in Marcoussis and ending on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

*--* STAGE 19 RESULTS 1. Levi Leipheimer, United States 1:02:44 2. Cadel Evans, Australia :51 behind 3. Vladimir Karpets, Russia 1:56 behind 4. Yaroslav Popovych, Ukraine 2:01 behind 5. Alberto Contador, Spain 2:18 behind

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*--* OVERALL LEADERS 1. Alberto Contador, Spain 87:09:18 2. Cadel Evans, Australia :23 behind 3. Levi Leipheimer, U.S. :31 behind 4. Carlos Sastre, Spain 7:08 behind 5. Haimar Zubeldia, Spain 8:17 behind

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