The American superstar, finished in the pack, some three minutes back on the final stage of the four stage tour.
His finish would have been enough to have cost him third place. However, with the weather as bad as in Coventry with thunder, lightening and heavy rain, the race organisers decided to anull the times and cancel the last two laps of the stage.
Euskatel's Gorka Izaguirre won the stage but it was Italian Matteo Carrara from the Vacansoleil team who won the General Classification with Frank Schlek second and Lance Armstrong third.
Frank Schleck
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Four British cyclists are competing in the 62nd Critérium du Dauphiné which started today in Evian-les-Bains with a 6,8 kilometres long prologue.
David Millar from Garmin plus Team Sky's Russell Downing, Geraint Thomas and the Isle Of Man's Peter Kennaugh all took part in the first Prologue stage which was won by Alberto Contador, who was two seconds clear from HTC Colombia's Tejay Van Garderen with a superb ride from Thomas seeing the Welshman finish in fourth.
David Millar
You can follow the race all week on Eurosport.
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HTC-Columbia's Matt Goss won the biggest one day race in America on Sunday - The Philadelphia International Championships.
The young Australian's victory made it two out of two for HTC-Columbia in Philadelphia on Sunday, coming just hours after Ina-Yoko Teutenberg had won the women's event.
Goss beat Peter Sagan to the line with Alexander Kristoff in third.
"This race is always a tough one, but the exceptional heat and humidity this year made it even harder than usual to get the win," said HTC-Columbia men's team director in Philadelphia, Tristan Hoffman to his team's press office.
"I think only around a quarter of the 200 starters actually completed the course because of the conditions.
"Then a big group went early on and we had to chase very hard to keep it under control, the whole team were working flat out and they did a great job pulling it all back together.
"We had Matt as our leader, we knew he was in good shape after the Giro stage win, so we really drove it hard to make sure it all came together by the finish. We had to fight very hard, but it paid off.
"These races are very important for us, and we came here determined to get some good results," said Hoffman. "It's great that it all worked out so well."
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