It's hard to explain for a relative cycling newcomer. But it's the support. For example, if Armstrong has a teammate who can't do all the things Armstrong can but is strong climbing the alps. You put him there with Armstrong, to let him set the pace for Armstrong. When someone has to go back to the car to get water for the whole team or food for the whole team, for such a long haul you have to have that help. There's no way Lance survives at the top of the tour without a whole lot of support from his team. Doesn't mean it's a total team sport but it has a lot of team aspects and they have to rely on their teammates constantly.

What was crap about Cantador is that he was having trouble earlier in the stage and Lance and Levi fell back with him and helped him get back to the chase group. Then without warning later on he sprinted ahead and picked up time on Lance. I'm not a huge Armstrong fan, he has a Favre-like ego, but he was in the right here.