21.   Both Wohlberg, of Redlands, Calif., and Bessette, of Quebec, opened the race Thursday by winning the time trial.

22.   A race in Motegi, Japan, was rained out, causing a delay in their arrival at Indy for the time trials.

23.   A similar race, called a time trial, also will be held along much of the same course.

24.   A time trial is a one-rider-at-a-time race against the clock, the race of truth, as the riders call it.

25.   After the Alps, the last big test is a time trial, a discipline in which Pantani does not usually shine.

26.   But Armstrong beat Zuelle and everybody else, registering his fourth stage victory and the third in three time trials, which are solitary races against the clock.

27.   But Armstrong silenced the critics Friday with a resounding victory in the individual time trial with just two days left in the Tour.

28.   But Cataldi does drive the car to race tracks in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to participate in time trials.

29.   But like the occasional runner who stumbles into a time trial, the GT proves itself a poseur with more flash than dash.

30.   But on Friday, Armstrong will shift back into high gear and go for his fifth consecutive win in an extended Tour time trial.