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Tour de France 2010: Alberto Contador snatches lead from Andy Schleck Andy Schleck, wearing the yellow jersey, looks down at his chain, with Alberto Contador on his shoulder. Contador took the lead in the general classification of the Tour de France from Schleck. If Alberto Contador wins the Tour de France in Paris on Sunday, in many eyesGood phrase! there will be an invisible asteriskD.J.[?st?,r?sk] n. 星号；星状物 The asterisk refers the reader to a footnote. 星号是让读者参看脚注。 vt. 加星号于 alongside his third victory in the worlds biggest bike race. The Spaniard snatched the yellow jersey from his great rival Andy Schleck today in a manner that upset purists by infringing侵犯侵害 the sports unwritten code of ethics, forcing him to endure长时间忍受 the jeers of the crowd as he mounted the podium表演台，讲台 – an unwelcome experience for a generally admired champion. The duel两个男子的决斗 has been building up for a fortnight两星期 , rising and falling like distant thunder. This afternoon, as the race approached the climax of its 15th stage, the storm broke in a most unexpected way. Schleck, Contador and their lieutenantsD.J.[leften?nt] n.陆军中尉 He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army. 海军上尉 The lieutenant stood ahead of the troops. 副职官员 had been shadowing each other since the start of the 187km stage in Pamiers, the small town in the Ariège which is the birthplace of the composer Gabriel Fauré. A group of 10 riders were allowed to break away, with Thomas Voeckler of the Bbox Bouygues Telecom team eventually mounting a superb solo attack on the climb up the hors-catégorie Port de Balès and staying away on the long descent to the finish, giving France a fifth stage win this year. Halfway through the day the peloton had slowed dramatically on the densely wooded slopes of the second-category Col de Portet-dAspet, several riders raising their hands to acknowledge the fine marble memorial near the spot where the gifted young Italian rider Fabio Casartelli, a member of Lance Armstrongs Motor