From Deseret News archives:
Zabriskie bows out of competition
Zabriskie had struggled to keep pace with the tour leaders for much of the race, choosing to save his energy for individual time trials after doing lots of leg work for his team leaders on most stages. During the mountain stages last week, he dropped considerable chunks of time and finally bowed out of the competition his third Tour de France.
"After the Galibier day I really struggled to try to get better," Zabriskie told VeloNews.com after rolling across the finish line more than 31 minutes after the stage winner. "I was hoping these few flat days I could nurse it back to health, but the Tour is not the kind of race where you can fix yourself. Today was a really hard day and my knee couldn't handle it."
Riding with a surgically-repaired left knee, injured in a 2003 car accident, Zabriskie said a Team CSC-mandated change in shoes was partially to blame for the pain in his knee.
While Zabriskie's Tour is over, Levi Leipheimer's is just about to get interesting.
Leipheimer is 3:53 behind the yellow jersey.
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