The Tour de France has a new overall leader after German rider Jens Voigt took the yellow jersey from Lance Armstrong on a mountainous ninth stage.
Denmark’s 31-year-old former world mountain bike champion Michael Rasmussen retained the polka-dot jersey and earned a superb stage victory in four hours, eight minutes and 20 seconds for Team Rabobank.
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