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Headline: " Armstrong to dismount for good after Tour de France"

Lance Armstrong's storybook racing carrer will end after this July's Tour de France.

Armstrong, 33, whose back-from-cancer life story made him a global hero, said Monday that he will attempt to win a seventh Tour.But win or lose, that race will be be last as a competitive cyclist.

This lead could be defined as the individual in a dramtic moment. Obviously Armstrong and his supporters are highly anticipating the Tour de France and with news of retirement more emotion is going to build.

The lead is multiparagraphed. The first sentence of the lead is more news like you would see in other publications, but it develops into a story when you reach the nut graph. It talks about the reasons why Armstrong is deciding to retire and why the Tour de France is his last race of his carrer.

I think the lead fits the example if an individual in a dramatic moment.

The main point of the article is Lance Armstrong retiring, which gives reasons why and quotes from him. He held a press conference Monday to announce his retirement.

In an interview before he made the official announcement at a news conference in Augusta, Ga. one day before Armstong begins the defense of his 2004 title in the six-tage Tour de Georgia-the six-time Tour de France winner told USA Today that he could no longer tolerate being seperated from his kids.

I think this is the nut graph, because it is the fifth paragraph down and seems like it sums up the article or atleast gives the most info in one article that would tie the story together. The article goes on talking about Armstongs accomplishment and his fight with testicular cancer.