From linesman at Wimbledon to chair umpire for more than 25 years, Gerry Armstrong, now ATP Supervisor at the Kingfisher Airlines Open in Mumbai, has come a long way.
Lance Armstrong is not losing any sleep over a US federal investigation into allegations of doping in his team, the seven-times Tour de France champion said on Saturday ahead of his final international race.
July 20, 1969 became a watershed date in the history of mankind after Armstrong, commanding the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the moon, and accompanied by fellow astronaut Edwin Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon
Lance Armstrong returned four samples with traces of banned corticosteroids in the 1999 Tour de France, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Wednesday, although the governing body added it did not handle them as positive tests.
Lance Armstrong is confident the ongoing federal investigation into alleged doping will go his way, the seven-times Tour de France champion said on Thursday. The American rider has hired criminal defence attorney Brian Daly, a former US federal prosecutor, following allegations made by fellow countryman and ex-team mate Floyd Landis.
Alberto Contador proved time was on his side when he outclassed seven times champion Lance Armstrong and the rest of the peloton to seize the Tour de France lead in the Alps on Sunday. The Spaniard surged ruthlessly with six kilometres left in the 207.5-km 15th stage to the Swiss ski resort of Verbier to collect the stage laurels and his first yellow jersey since his 2007 victory in Paris.
Lance Armstrong will break his silence about his lifetime ban from cycling and the doping charges made against him in a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey next week, the television presenter announced on Tuesday.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) will push ahead with efforts to clean up cycling without help from Lance Armstrong after the disgraced cyclist rejected another deadline to meet anti-doping investigators by Wednesday.
A day after he was banned from cycling for life and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, Lance Armstrong took the first step towards accepting the sanctions by deleting reference to his Tour wins on his Twitter biography.
The girl, wearing a matching fuchsia Nike kit and sporting a temporary tiger tattoo on her left forearm, emphatically cheered Aryna Sabalenka on
Lance Armstrong drew the curtain down on an amazing career in top-class international cycling on Sunday as a hero to his devoted followers but much less so to the sceptics.
Lance Armstrong's decision not to fight doping charges was disappointing for the rider and for cycling in general, according to his former team manager John Bruyneel, who also faces charges brought by the United States Anti-doping Agency (USADA).
Lance Armstrong's decision not to fight doping charges was disappointing for the rider and for cycling in general, according to his former team manager John Bruyneel, who also faces charges brought by the United States Anti-doping Agency (USADA).
The seven-times Tour de France champion will make his marathon debut in the New York City race on November 5.
The remains of legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on Moon, were buried at the Atlantic Ocean in a ceremony aboard a US Navy cruiser.
The defending champion laboured to a seventh-place finish in the fourth stage won by Dane Brian Vandborg.
Jean-Marie Leblanc, the Tour de France director, said he backed the report stating that Lance Armstrong took EPO in 1999.
Seven-times champion Lance Armstrong will come out of retirement and compete in next year's Tour de France, the cycling magazine VeloNews reported on Monday. Velonews cited sources on its website as saying that Armstrong, 36, would compete in the Amgen Tour of California, Paris-Nice, the Tour de Georgia, the Dauphine-Libere and the Tour de France.
Cycling should try to put the Lance Armstrong doping case behind it, Spain's double Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, who returned from a two-year doping ban in August, said on Saturday.
Lance Armstrong said that cycling looked more scandalous since dope testing was done most in the sport
Lance Armstrong said on Thursday he would no longer fight doping accusations by the U.S. Anti-Doping agency, a move that appears to put his seven Tour de France titles at risk.
Federal prosecutors on Friday dropped an investigation centred on whether seven-time Tour De France champion Lance Armstrong and his teammates cheated the sponsor of their bike racing team with a secret doping program.
The glittering evening attracted royalty as well as movie stars, entertainers and a worldwide television audience estimated at 320 million.
Lance Armstrong promised on Tuesday not to try to overhaul his Astana team mate Alberto Contador as overall race leader but still allowed himself to dream of an eighth Tour de France victory. The 37-year-old American, back in the saddle after three-and-a-half years in retirement, is second overall, one minute 37 seconds behind the Spaniard after the 16th stage.
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong on Thursday was sued by a company that paid him about $12 million for three of his seven Tour de France wins that have since been stripped from him for his use of banned drugs.
The American's yellow jersey collection will increase if sprinters again steal the honours in the 200.5-km fifth stage of the Tour de France.
Lance Armstrong will allow the Tour de France sprinters to enjoy the spotlight for one more day.
Cycling great Lance Armstrong has sent a message to Yuvraj Singh, wishing him a speedy recovery and offering help in the Indian cricketer's battle against cancer.
Spaniard Francisco Mancebo took the Tour of California lead on Sunday with victory in the first stage on a rain-soaked day when Lance Armstrong had his time-trial bike stolen.
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has reached an agreement with the Sunday Times after it had sued the drugs-tainted American for around one million pounds ($1.56 million), the British paper announced on Sunday.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) will send Lance Armstrong's file to the cycling world governing body this week to get the American rider's life ban ratified, its chief Travis Tygart told French daily L'Equipe on Monday.
The American became the fifth person to win the prestigious event five times and also the second to have five straight Tour victories to his credit.
American cyclist Lance Armstrong, who won his fourth consecutive Tour de France this year, was voted foreign sportsperson of the year by the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais.
Lance Armstrong faces arguably the toughest test of his final Tour de France in Saturday's 220.5-km 14th stage to Ax-3 Domaines.
The American lost his Tour de France leader's yellow jersey to Germany's Jens Voigt as the race reached its first halt at the end of the ninth stage.\n
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has claimed it's up to the viewers to judge how candid he was during his no-holds-barred chat show with Oprah Winfrey following reports that the American wasn't contrite while confessing to doping in the show.
At a bike shop in a hilly area of Austin, local cyclists gathered on Thursday over beer, wine and pizza to watch disgraced cyclist and Austinite Lance Armstrong confess to Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong is not telling the truth by denying his representatives offered a six-figure cash donation to the U.S. Anti Doping Agency (USADA), the body's former chief executive Terry Madden said on Saturday.
