SAINT-LARY-SOULAN, France -- George Hincapie has plowed into headwinds and rattled over cobblestones in Lance Armstrong's service for the last seven years, threading the needle to lead him through the right openings in a jostling, sprinting peloton, sacrificing his own ambitions. (Full article: 941 words)

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