Tom Danielson leads Armstrong (& others) into last day of Tour de Georgia

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After struggling in the time trial, it appears that Armstrong has chosen to ride for his teammates.

Danielson wins stage, seizes lead at Georgia

http://www.velonews.com/race/dom/articles/7923.0.html

"On a day of high drama, riveting plot twists and an outcome that was literally undecided until the last second, the most telling moment may well have come during the ascent of the category 1 Hogpen Gap climb, 96 miles into stage 5 of the Dodge Tour de Georgia. It was there that the world's most famous bike racer went to the front of a four-rider break and started hammering away for one of his teammates, American Tom Danielson.

"On the second to last climb he attacked and pulled the whole way," said Danielson. "It was just four of us . The whole time I was on his wheel I was thinking there is no way I'm going to lose this race today because my idol before I was even on a bike was riding on the front for me. I was not going to let anything happen today."

Danielson made good on that pledge, eventually dropping Leipheimer on the day's final climb to take the stage win in 5:06:15, while also putting 1:09 into Landis, who had entered the day as GC leader with a 1:00 advantage on the first-year Discovery rider. And with just the relatively flat 125.2-mile run from Blairsville to Alpharetta remaining in the six-day trip around Georgia, Danielson is al but assured of becoming the overall winner of America's biggest stage race.

"I'll just look to my bosses. Lance and Johan will make the call on how to ride tomorrow's stage," said Danielson, who owns a four-second advantage on Leipheimer and nine seconds on Landis. "I've been in this situation before. For sure tomorrow will be a little stressful, but I'm on the best team in the world."

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