Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong was famous for his inch-by-inch recce of key Tour de France stages. Using plots created by Google Earth users it's now possible to be a virtual Lance, scoping out the route from a virtual helicopter.

Scope the 2006 Tour de France in Google Earth

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