High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2004 Tour de France first ten stages began with the Prologue individual time trial in Liege, Belgium and continued through Stage 9(Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat to Gueret). The stages were mostly flat and most ended with the main field finishing together. However, Stage 4 was a team time trial with each team riding alone competing against the clock. Also, between Stages 8 and 9 the riders had a rest day where no stage occurred. 188 riders from 21 teams began the Prologue, but 16 dropped out of the race due to varying reasons leaving only 172 riders at the end of Stage 9. Five different riders had the overall lead in the race, including five-time defending champion Lance Armstrong. With a long breakaway in Stage 5, where a group of five riders had a 12 minute advantage over the main competitors, Frenchman Thomas Voeckler of the Brioches La Boulangere team took a 9 minute lead over all of the pre-race favorites. He held the lead through the rest...

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