Stage 20 profile
Lance Armstrong put the seal on a stunning Tour by winning his first 2005 stage - the individual time trial.

Your Tour experiences and comments
The 1999 contre-la-montre stage in St Etienne was a real show in the entire town! It has always been a show for the locals. I come from a small town near by and it an amazing ambiance for an "against the clock" stage. I look forward for this years' tour and hopefully for a competitive race in St Etienne streets...
Nicolas, Feurs

My abiding memory of Saint-Etienne on the Tour was in 1999 when Ludo Dierckxsens won a stage there. When he passed us he was part of a five-man breakaway but he was quite a sparkling sight in his own right. He looked both awesome and bizarre in equal measure - this towering, bald Belgian out of the saddle of his bike pushing himself to the limit. He looked the strongest of the breakaway riders and we had this sneaky suspicion at the time that he was going to do the business. He didn't disappoint
Mazza, Rotterdam

I have unfortunately never visited "Le Tour"-but this is something I am desperate to change. My first experience was watching the epic climax of the 1989 tour. The final time-trial between Greg Le Mond and Laurent Fignon was something of sporting legend. For Fignon to lose 50 seconds on that final time-trial to Lemond. It was just an epitomy of the phrase "The agony and the ecstasy", to see Lemond celebrating when he realised he'd won the tour, coupled with the sense of despair and defeat after 2500 miles by such a short margin, makes the tour one of the great worldwide sporting spectacles.
Carl Neville, Reading, Berkshire, UK

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