Alberto Contador emerged as the new cycling boss on Sunday when the Spaniard wrapped up his second Tour de France title on the Champs-Elysees on Lance Armstrong's return to the race. Seven-times champion Armstrong, back from 3-1/2 years in retirement, finished third overall 5:24 off the pace.
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.
Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is to make his return to professional cycling in Australia next year, a local politician said on Wednesday.
Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is coming out of retirement, he confirmed Tuesday. "I am happy to announce that after talking with my children, my family and my closest friends, I have decided to return to professional cycling in order to raise awareness of the global cancer burden," he said in a statement.
Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong crashed on the first stage of Spain's Vuelta Castilla y Leon on Monday and was taken to hospital with a suspected collarbone fracture, organisers said.
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.
Independent investigators found that the World Anti-Doping Agency behaved in ways "completely inconsistent" with testing rules.
Cycling's ruling body said a member of their staff had provided doping control forms signed by Lance Armstrong to L'Equipe
Lance Armstrong effectively sealed a record seventh Tour de France victory, by winning the penultimate stage
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.
The American cancer survivor narrowly beat England rugby union flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson and Formula One champion Michael Schumacher.
Lance Armstrong has been voted sports personality of the year, according to a poll published in the Spanish daily
Lance Armstrong said he was happy with the way his career ended and was sick of the doping allegations
The glittering evening attracted royalty as well as movie stars, entertainers and a worldwide television audience estimated at 320 million.
French newspaper Le Monde claimed that at the time Armstrong was being treated for cancer he had admitted taking banned drugs, including erythropoietin (EPO).
Lance Armstrong will race in next year's Giro d'Italia for the first time as part of his cycling comeback.
The defending champion laboured to a seventh-place finish in the fourth stage won by Dane Brian Vandborg.
Lance Armstrong and Roger Federer were nominated for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award.
Jean-Marie Leblanc, the Tour de France director, said he backed the report stating that Lance Armstrong took EPO in 1999.
Lance Armstrong has denied taking steroids following a report that he had used the blood-boosting drug EPO in 1999
American Floyd Landis sealed his first Tour de France triumph after Sunday's 20th and last stage won by Norway's Thor Hushovd on the Champs-Elysees.
The Italian completed a near-perfect Tour de France for Lance Armstrong's Discovery Channel team when he won the longest stage in Revel.
Young Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde, who beat race leader Armstrong in a sprint finish in Tuesday's mountainous 10th stage, quit the Tour de France suffering with a knee injury.
Lance Armstrong says he does not miss competitive cycling and hated the sport in the final few years of his career
Lance Armstrong said that cycling looked more scandalous since dope testing was done most in the sport
The seven-times Tour de France champion will make his marathon debut in the New York City race on November 5.
With two tough stages in the Pyrenees up next, five times champion Lance Armstrong and the other favourites took it easy.\n\n
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