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"Overall I'm happy with my ride," says the cyclist after finishing the first stage of the grueling race
Lance Armstrong returned to the Tour de France for first time in four years by finishing 10th in the opening time trial in Monaco which was won by Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland.
Two weeks before the start of the 96th Tour de France, 1,870 days after his last pro victory, Lance Armstrong soloed to first place in the Nevada City (Cal.) Classic, a brief but brutal 40-lap circuit in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Asked afterward about the upcoming Tour, which starts Saturday in Monaco, the Texan poor-mouthed his own chances, pointing to Astana teammates Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer as clear favorites. After those two, he went on, "they got an old man like me to come around and pick up the pieces."
The most-eagerly anticipated Tour de France in recent history begins with a testing individual time-trial in Monaco on July 4 and fittingly, on U.S. Independence Day, an American will take center stage in cycling's greatest race.
Lance Armstrong and 2007 champion Alberto Contador will head a strong Astana team for next month's Tour de France.
Yeah, yeah, I know: Roger Federer made a compelling case for himself as the best men's tennis player ever on Sunday. And the Detroit Red Wings wrested back momentum from the Pittsburgh Penguins in a tasty Stanley Cup final, a classic clash of youth and experience, Sidney Crosby (22) and Nicklas Lidstrom (39).
"She wanted marriage ... children," the cyclist says. "That pressure cracked it"
Lance Armstrong is the star attraction in the 100th edition of the Giro d'Italia but has played down his chances of overall victory in the first major Tour of the cycling season.
World cycling's governing body, the International Cycling Union (UCI), have expressed their concern at the financial situation surrounding Lance Armstrong's Astana team.
Lance Armstrong has undergone successful surgery on the broken collarbone he suffered in a racing accident on Monday.
"Overall I'm happy with my ride," says the cyclist after finishing the first stage of the grueling race
Lance Armstrong returned to the Tour de France for first time in four years by finishing 10th in the opening time trial in Monaco which was won by Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland.
Two weeks before the start of the 96th Tour de France, 1,870 days after his last pro victory, Lance Armstrong soloed to first place in the Nevada City (Cal.) Classic, a brief but brutal 40-lap circuit in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Asked afterward about the upcoming Tour, which starts Saturday in Monaco, the Texan poor-mouthed his own chances, pointing to Astana teammates Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer as clear favorites. After those two, he went on, "they got an old man like me to come around and pick up the pieces."
The most-eagerly anticipated Tour de France in recent history begins with a testing individual time-trial in Monaco on July 4 and fittingly, on U.S. Independence Day, an American will take center stage in cycling's greatest race.
Lance Armstrong and 2007 champion Alberto Contador will head a strong Astana team for next month's Tour de France.
Yeah, yeah, I know: Roger Federer made a compelling case for himself as the best men's tennis player ever on Sunday. And the Detroit Red Wings wrested back momentum from the Pittsburgh Penguins in a tasty Stanley Cup final, a classic clash of youth and experience, Sidney Crosby (22) and Nicklas Lidstrom (39).
"She wanted marriage ... children," the cyclist says. "That pressure cracked it"
Lance Armstrong is the star attraction in the 100th edition of the Giro d'Italia but has played down his chances of overall victory in the first major Tour of the cycling season.
World cycling's governing body, the International Cycling Union (UCI), have expressed their concern at the financial situation surrounding Lance Armstrong's Astana team.
Lance Armstrong has undergone successful surgery on the broken collarbone he suffered in a racing accident on Monday.
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong is back in competitive action after breaking his collarbone in a race in Spain last month.
Lance Armstrong was cleared Friday to ride in this year's Tour de France, health permitting, after the French anti-doping agency confirmed it would not be launching disciplinary procedures against the seven-time champion.
Lance Armstrong has been cleared to ride in this year's Tour de France after the French anti-doping agency (AFLD) confirmed they would not be launching any disciplinary procedures against the seven-time champion.
Lance Armstrong could face punishment after being accused by the French anti-doping agency (AFLD) of breaking its rules during an unannounced test last month.
"We don't know how my recovery will go," says the cyclist, who broke his collarbone
Cyclist Lance Armstrong said Thursday the surgery to repair his broken collarbone proved to be more complex than doctors originally anticipated and that he will take his recovery "day by day."
The cycling champ will on the road to full recovery soon, says his surgeon
The surgeon who operated Wednesday on cyclist Lance Armstrong after he fractured his collarbone declared the procedure a success, but one that will require two to three months of healing.
Lance Armstrong's Tour de France hopes have not been affected by the fractured collarbone he sustained in the Vuelta Castilla y Leon on Monday, according to Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel.
Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong returned to the United States on Tuesday, a day after breaking his collarbone in a fall during a comeback race in Spain, he said via Twitter.
Broken collarbone won't keep the champ from either French or Italian races
American cyclist Lance Armstrong suffered a shattering blow in his comeback bid on Monday when he broke his right collarbone after falling on the first stage of a five-day race in northern Spain.
The champion cyclist crashes when he's caught in a pile-up of riders
You knew it was bad, you knew Lance Armstrong was seriously down in the dumps when he failed to Tweet for almost an entire day.
The seven-time Tour de France champ is in Europe to participate in several races
Tony from L.A. was badly outnumbered. A rotund bloke in a cycling jersey that fit him like a sausage casing, he was leaning over the asphalt in front of the Rabobank bus near the start of Stage 4 of the Tour of California. In orange chalk, he was spelling out the names of the Rabo riders such as Robert Gesink, Oscar Freire and Peter Weening.
Just because he's lean and ripped and far more fit than he's ever been at this time of year, Lance Armstrong won't necessarily regain the form that won him seven Tours de France. Just because those questions about his past have faded from the foreground, they haven't necessarily gone away. And while none of them care to be quoted, there are plenty of cycling people who wish he'd leave and not come back. He is a magnet for attention that might otherwise redound to more deserving riders -- guys like his Astana teammate Levi Leipheimer, who on Sunday clinched his third straight victory in the Amgen Tour of California, but whose next mention in this story is more than a thousand words away. But give Armstrong this: Three-and-a-half years after his retirement, two races into his comeback, he has plunged an IV full of Red Bull into the arm of a sport sorely in need of a pick-me-up. By his mere presence in the peloton, the 37-year-old Texan makes pro cycling an infinitely more interesting
A one-of-a-kind bicycle belonging to Lance Armstrong that was stolen Saturday, hours after the U.S. cycling legend rode it in a race, has been handed over to authorities, police said Wednesday.
A one-of-a-kind bicycle belonging to U.S. cycling legend Lance Armstrong was stolen from a team truck in California just hours after he rode it Saturday on the first day of a nine-day race.
A one-of-a-kind bicycle belonging to U.S. cycling legend Lance Armstrong was stolen from a team truck in California just hours after he rode it Saturday on the first day of a nine-day race.
Lance Armstrong finished tucked in the main bunch again as Australian Allan Davis all but wrapped up overall victory in the Tour Down Under with victory on the fifth stage.
Lance Armstrong briefly showed at the front of the field but it was Australia's Allan Davis who took the second stage and overall lead in the Tour Down Under on Wednesday.
Lance Armstrong said he felt "strong" after successfully completing the first stage of his comeback race in Australia.
Hours after meeting cycling champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his government would devote about $3.8 million in new funding to cancer research.
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong reckons he is fitter now than at the peak of his career, but dismisses his chances of winning next week's Tour Down Under in the heat of Adelaide.
"Our families are ecstatic and grateful," the cycling champ tells PEOPLE of the baby due in June
Cycling legend Lance Armstrong -- a survivor of testicular cancer -- and girlfriend Anna Hansen are expecting a baby, CNN learned on Tuesday through his charitable organization.
Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has been cleared to race in the 2009 Tour Down Under in Australia, the International Cycling Union (UCI) have announced.
It could be truth or dare time on Lance Armstrong's comeback trail
Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong can return to the Tour de France in 2009 if his team avoids doping scandals, the race director said on Thursday.
After getting support from his ex-wife, he urges their kids not to leak the news
Lance Armstrong has confirmed that he will join the Kazakh-backed Astana team for his competitive comeback next year, with his comeback race being January's Tour Down Under in Australia.
Cycling superstar Lance Armstrong stunned the sports world September 9 when he announced that he would come out of a three-year retirement to attempt to win the Tour de France for a record eighth time.
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will join Team Astana for his return to competitive cycling
Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong could make his cycling comeback at the Tour Down Under in January.
The athlete is making his professional comeback in conjunction with an effort to raise cancer awareness
Lance's Armstrong's friend and former mentor Johan Bruyneel is desperate to recruit the seven-time Tour de France champion to his new team.
Grim news for gossip rags everywhere: Lance Armstrong confirmed Tuesday that he is, in fact, coming out of retirement. The immediate result, of course -- aside from a defibrillation of interest in cycling in this country -- will be a marked reduction in late-night sightings of the Lone Star State's most prolific Lothario with celebrity blondes of various vintages on his arm. If Lance is going to take the start at the Amgen Tour of California on Valentine's Day, 2009 -- the first of five stages races he's reportedly eyeballing, culminating with the Tour de France next July -- he'll need to maybe be dial down the night life a bit.
Cyclist Lance Armstrong confirmed Tuesday that he will be returning to road racing and will shoot for an eighth win at the Tour de France.
Lance Armstrong is getting back on his bike, determined to win an eighth Tour de France
The cyclist says training sapped his libido – not that the ladies complained
"There might come a time when you feel like you need to step into public office," he says
While Lance Armstrong chased his record-setting Tour de France winning streak, a number of American businesses rode victoriously along. For Trek Travel in Madison, Wisc., the mid-'00s were boom times: 500 travelers each year booked $5,000 trips to see Lance in action, giving the two-year-old company $2.5 million in revenue a year from the Tour de France alone.
Armstrong is mum when grilled about his budding romance with Hudson
She giggles through a barrage of questions from Barbara Walters
The cycling champ and the actress hit the town together in Texas
Lance Armstrong once again took to the streets – this time along a 26.2-mile route through all five boroughs of New York, for the city's 38th annual Marathon on Sunday.
Lance Armstrong and Ashley Olsen appear to be getting friendly: The unlikely twosome have met up at least twice this week while the former Tour de France champ is in town for the New York Marathon, sources tell PEOPLE.
Ashley Olsen, 21, and Lance Armstrong, 36, were spotted hanging out together at the Gramercy Hotel's Rose Bar in New York, both the New York Post and New York's Daily News are reporting, citing "spies." There was no immediate comment from their reps. Stay tuned!
Already battered by doping allegations, cycling stands to absorb another big blow next week with the publication of the latest book by Irish investigative journalist David Walsh. Two weeks before the start of the 2007 Tour de France, Random House will release From Lance To Landis, a follow-up of Walsh's 2004 book L.A. Confidentiel: Les Secrets de Lance Armstrong, which contained allegations that the seven-time Tour winner doped, but was never published in English. This latest book will be widely released in the U.S., and could further undermine Armstrong's contention that he was a clean champion.
Lance Armstrong's team will be looking for a new sponsor in 2008 after the Discovery Channel pulled the plug on its backing for the elite cycling squad.
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has reacted angrily to a story in Tuesday's New York Times which links him to a former teammate who has owned up to doping.
Yellow has a mixed history in the Tour de France. The overall leader and eventual winner of the grueling, three-week-long, 2,700-mile bike race wears a yellow jersey. Yellow also signifies a semina...
An independent investigation has cleared seven times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong of doping during the 1999 event and strongly criticised the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Yellow has a mixed history in the Tour de France.
Seven times Tour de France champion American Lance Armstrong announced on his website Thursday he intends to run the New York marathon in November.
Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has agreed to endorse a brand of mutual funds, according to a report published Monday.
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has been voted as the American Sportsman of the Year for the fourth time in his career.
The director of the French national laboratory that performed urine testing for the 1999 Tour de France said Friday all details on the testing had been forwarded as of Monday to the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Lance Armstrong remained steadfast Thursday that he has never used performance-enhancing drugs, and he called a French newspaper's allegations that he used a banned substance in 1999 -- when he won the first of seven Tour de France titles -- "preposterous."
Lance Armstrong went on the offensive Wednesday, saying it was "preposterous" for the Tour de France director to say that the legendary cyclist "fooled" race officials and the sporting world by cheating his way to seven straight titles.
Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong has denied allegations reported on Tuesday in the French sports daily L'Equipe that he took the performance enhancing drug EPO during the 1999 Tour de France.
Lance Armstrong ended his storybook career in Paris on Sunday by winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France title.
This Sunday, a number of sports fans tuned in to watch the Tour de France for the first time, just to see American Lance Armstrong win the grueling race for an unprecedented seventh straight year.
Spaniard Oscar Pereiro had a day's hard riding rewarded when he won the 16th stage of the Tour de France over 180.5 km from Mourenx on Tuesday.
Lance Armstrong has a record seventh Tour de France in his grasp after a triumphant day for the Discovery Channel team with Armstrong's right hand man George Hincapie winning the 15th stage.
Lance Armstrong extended his overall Tour de France lead after Saturday's 220.5km 14th stage - the first in the Pyreneean mountains - was won by Georg Totschnig of Austria.
Dane Michael Rasmussen, of Rabobank, won the 171km ninth stage of the Tour de France, after successfully completing a 169km solo breakaway in Mulhouse.
Six-time champion Lance Armstrong took the overall lead at the Tour de France Tuesday when his Discovery Channel outfit won the 67.5km fourth stage team time trial.
Winston Churchill, who once referred to Russia as "a riddle wrapped up in a mystery inside an enigma," would appreciate Lance Armstrong.
Six-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong says he is more motivated than ever to claim the prestigious race one more time before he retires.
Lance Armstrong has been beaten into third place in the 46.5km individual time trial in the Dauphine Libere.
Samuel Dumoulin led a French sweep of the podium places in the second stage of the Dauphine Libere with American Lance Armstrong in the chasing pack.
Lance Armstrong served notice of improved form ahead of his bid for a seventh Tour de France win as he finished a solid fifth in the prologue stage of the Dauphine Libere.
Lance Armstrong's bid for a seventh Tour de France could be in trouble after the Texan crossed a disappointing ninth in the 29.9km third stage time-trail at the Tour de Georgia.
Record six-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong said on Monday he would quit professional cycling after this year's Tour in July.
Six-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has called a media conference for the eve of the Tour of Georgia on April 18 - increasing speculation about his future.
American cycling superstar Lance Armstrong has confirmed that he will be taking part in this year's Tour de France as he bids for an unprecedented seventh win in a row.
Lance Armstrong is prepared to meet investigators after French police launched a preliminary probe into doping allegations against the six-times Tour de France winner.
Six-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has strongly hinted he could miss the world's leading cycling race next year to concentrate on other goals.
Tour de France chiefs have cut down on mountain finishes and plan a single individual time-trial for the 2005 race in a move that could help Lance Armstrong's rivals prevent the Texan winning a seventh title.
Lance Armstrong created Tour de France history with his sixth consecutive victory as the 2004 edition finished with the customary sprint finish on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Lance Armstrong all but sealed his record sixth Tour de France victory when he outclassed the field on the penultimate 19th stage 55km time trial.
Juan Miguel Mercado of Spain has won Friday's 18th stage of the Tour de France from Annemasse to Lons le Saunier.
Lance Armstrong completed a hattrick of stage wins when he took the 204.5 km 17th stage of the Tour de France to Le Grand Bornand to retain the yellow jersey on Thursday.
Lance Armstrong seized total control of the Tour de France on Wednesday with an awesome display of power cycling to win the 16th stage, a 15.5 km individual time trial.
Lance Armstrong reclaimed the overall lead in the Tour de France on Tuesday, closing in on a record sixth title with an emphatic finish on the first Alpine stage.
Lance Armstrong edged closer to a record sixth consecutive Tour de France victory by winning the grueling 205.5-kilometer 13th stage through the Pyrenees in dominant fashion.
Lance Armstrong grabbed the Tour de France by the scruff of the neck on Friday, outdistancing his main rivals and charging from sixth into second place.
Lance Armstrong has accused the French media of waging a dirty campaign against him as allegations of doping continue to overshadow the Texan's bid for a record sixth straight Tour de France win.
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