Cycling

o Jan Ullrich will win the 2006 Tour de France with ease, according to former arch-rival and record seven-times champion Lance Armstrong. "I predict that he'll win it by four to five minutes," Armstrong was quoted as saying in Bild newspaper.

o Jan Ullrich will win the 2006 Tour de France with ease, according to former arch-rival and record seven-times champion Lance Armstrong. "I predict that he'll win it by four to five minutes," Armstrong was quoted as saying in Bild newspaper. Armstrong, who retired after winning last year's tour, has long said his key challenger was Ullrich. Ullrich, 32, won the world's greatest cycling race in 1997 but finished behind Armstrong the last seven years with six podiums.

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