Having waited with the masses at the finish line in 1994, I decided to escape the madding crowds in 1996 and head out further on the route. I walked out a ways to position myself in the middle of a long hill, so that the riders would be moving slower and give me a better chance at some pictures. Next was second place finisher Pascal Herve, who led the stage for a while before being caught by Armstrong in the mountains. The others filtered in over the next half hour or so. This was all before Lance was diagnosed with cancer, only to come back and provide one of the best sports stories of the millenium when he won the 1999 Tour de France in dominating fashion.
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