Postmen vow to deliver historic tour win for Lance

THE US Postal team are confident they will deliver a gift-wrapped fifth victory for their leader Lance Armstrong in the centenary-year running of the Tour de France which gets underway today.

rmstrong, whose sequence of wins began in 1999 after he won his battle with life-threatening cancer, is bidding to become the fifth man to win five Tours, but only the second after Spanish legend Miguel Indurain to do so in consecutive years.

And the postmen are confident they can again deliver the final yellow jersey to the 31-year-old Texan on July 27 at the traditional finishing point on the Champs Elysees.