Georg one fine wine

Lance likes it hot - sometimes

Just like a fine bottle of red, 34 year-old Austrian Georg Totschnig (Gerolsteiner) showed the cycling world today that he's not just getting older, he's getting better. On a stifling first day in the Pyrenees mountains, one of the veterans of the peloton used the strength acquired from 14 years as a professional to outlast and outride his nine other breakaway companions in a mammoth 200 kilometre-plus breakaway.

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