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Want to know if Lance Armstrong got the yellow jersey or who fell behind along the winding roads through the French countryside?
Since last year, a Burlington-based company has made its business giving the world a real-time picture of the Tour de France.
EXcelon Corp., a provider of business-to-business infrastructure systems , again is enabling the tour web site to deliver rich content to a high volume of traffic.
"With 200 riders going five to six hours every day for three weeks, complex route maps and real-time lead changes, tracking an event like the Tour de France is a serious challenge," said Alan Gold, eXcelon's chief marketing officer.
The race, which will finish Sunday on Paris' famed Champs-Elysees, is a 2,200-mile course through France. The website logs more than 270 million hits,...