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Contador comes in fifth in stage 19, likely to win Tour

Jul 28, 2007, 15:42 GMT

Angouleme, France - American Levi Leipheimer won the next-to-last stage of the 2007 Tour de France on Saturday, an individual time trial, while team-mate Alberto Contador of Spain all but clinched the overall title. Contador finished in fifth place, 2:18 minutes behind the winner and 1:27 behind second-place Cadel Evans of Australia. He now leads Evans by 23 seconds in the overall standings, with Leipheimer in third place, 31 seconds behind. Since Sunday's final stage is generally a ceremonial parade down the Champs Elysees in Paris, it seems vitually certain that, barring accident or a positive doping test, the 24-year-old Contador will win the 2007 Tour de France. Leipheimer raced the 55.5-kilometre course in 1 hour 2:44 minutes, a blistering pace of 53.1 kph, to take his first-ever Tour stage victory. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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