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So far, this year's Tour de France hasn't exactly been the most boring ever. With Armstrong as strong as expected and Ullrich even more dissappointing than expected, the retirements of Iban Mayo and Tyler Hamilton, the surprising strength of leading Thomas Voeckler, the mini-resurrection of Georg Totschnig, the changing of the guard at T-Mobile over to Andreas Klöden, an attractive (but wasted) Tour layout and the lack of power, ideas and preparation among all teams in how to fight Armstrong have been a lot to see yet. But tomorrow will be incredible. Cruel. Terrific. Horrific. Insane. An individual time trail from Bourg d'Oisans to - L'Alpe d'Huez:

Above map from the BBC Sport Tour Guide shows what to expect during just 15 kilometers - not shown the 1 million spectators expected to crowd the hills and roads, carted into the arena in batches of 25,000 per hour. Will I watch it on TV? No. I will have a look inside of Urenco's Uranium enrichment plant Gronau and RWE's nuclear power plant KKE/Lingen instead.

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