TOUR DE FRANCE
Date: 4 July - 26 July
Coverage: BBC Sport website: text commentary of each stage and streamed BBC commentary of the last 90 minutes of each stage available; commentary on selected stages on BBC 5 Live sports extra
**Lance Armstrong’s Astana team narrowly failed to put the seven-time champion back in the leader’s yellow jersey after a thrilling team time trial.**Astana won the 39km lap of Montpellier but ended one second shy of wiping out Fabian Cancellara’s lead and putting Armstrong top of the podium.
The Texan’s outfit needed to beat Cancellara’s Saxo Bank team by more than 41 seconds to put him in yellow.
Astana beat Garmin-Slipstream into second with Saxo Bank in third.
Armstrong now has the same overall time as race leader Cancellara, with Astana team-mate and 2007 champion Alberto Contador in third, 19 seconds back.