Lance Armstrong

By editor LOS ANGELES, Oct 22, 2009 (AFP) – Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will compete in the 2010 Tour of California, which will boast a new route and new dates to avoid the West Coast’s wet winter weather. Stage seven will be the individual time trial in downtown Los Angeles next t...

By editor However in keeping with the organisers’ annual bid to innovate, there will be only three mountaintop finishes, only one individual time trial and no team time trial. “I think it will be much more open than this year. The TTT (team time trial) eliminated people (in 2009), and we won’t have tha...

By editor Lance Armstrong There will be only 60 K individual time trial but the only thing that is unfortunate for us, is that there will be no team time trial. The race will technically and tactically be much different than this year. You will have more guys who will be factors in the race because of the l...

By Gene Bisbee When Lance Armstrong announced last September that he was coming out of retirement to race once again at the Tour de France, I only hoped that he wouldn't embarrass himself. Stage 1: 10th place, 40 seconds behind -- Armstrong holds the best time in the individual time trial for much of the...

By Gene Bisbee There is no drafting, team tactics or breaking away at the Tour de France individual time trial. The bicycle racers win or lose on their own. Lance Armstrong -- Finished 16th on the stage but moved up to 3rd overall in the General Classification. He finished 1:30 behind Contador, but ahead...

By Gene Bisbee Lance Armstrong tore through a 9.6-mile individual time trial course in Monaco at 20:12 on Saturday morning to set the best time among the early starters on the first stage of the 2009 Tour de France. Armstrong drew an early start time. He was 18th to launch himself down the ramp out of 180 cyc...

By Gene Bisbee As promised, the Stage 12 individual time trial shook up the standings of the 2009 Giro d'Italia as Danilo Di Luca finally gave up his pink leader's jersey to Denis Menchov, left. Comeback cyclist Lance Armstrong gained more ground on Wednesday, increasing his position to 12th in the over...

By Gene Bisbee Three-time Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer won the individual time trial at the Tour of the Gila on Friday, solidifying his overall lead. Unofficial results show Leipheimer beating Tom Zirbel of Bissell by 53 seconds and Lance Armstrong by 1:23. Other top five finishers were Ph...

By editor Perhaps the world’s best time trialist, Cancellara won last year’s opening Prologue at the Amgen Tour of California and went on to win an Olympic gold medal in the individual time trial and an unprecedented bronze medal on the road at the 2008 Beijing Games. A three-time stage winner and ye...

By editor The first stage will comprise a team time-trial and finish with an individual time-trial over 15.3km in the capital. ROME, Dec 13, 2008 (AFP) - The 2009 Tour of Italy, which will welcome former Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong for the first time, will start its centenary edition in Ve...