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Byline: Adam Piore, With Alison Brooks in Paris, Emily Flynn in London and John David Sparks in New York

Rene le Cam's patients know him as their friendly family dentist. But every July, the diminutive 51-year-old from Provence, France, puts down his dental tools, tosses aside his lab coat and shaves his legs. Then he puts on blue-and-white spandex biking pants, a tight matching jersey and heads for the hills of rural France and the world-renowned race routes of the Tour de France. Le Cam is not likely to see five-time winner Lance Armstrong. But he might pass retired racer Greg LeMond--the only other American to beat the French. Instead of the actual Tour de ...

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