Lance Armstrong says his decision to abandon a personal and independent drug testing program is justified because cycling’s biological passport makes the initiative unnecessary.
Seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong pledged when he returned to cycling last year after a three-year retirement he would submit to a rigid, independent regime of drug testing and that the results of those tests would be made public through a Web site.
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After returning to top-level cycling, Lance Armstrong has set himself a new challenge by saying he intends to compete in the Hawaii Ironman.
The 38-year-old Armstrong was targeting the 2011 or 2012 event in Kona, Hawaii, depending upon whether this year or next will be his final Tour de France.
“I will be in Kona 15 months after the final Tour,†Armstrong told Australian Associated Press on Friday. “If it’s 2010, then it will be Kona 2011. If it’s 2011, it will be Kona 2012.
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Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has pledged $250,000 to the victims of Haiti’s earthquake crisis.
Armstrong, in Australia with his new RadioShack cycling team for next week’s Tour Down Under, said Thursday the impoverished Caribbean nation would find it difficult to deal with the earthquake, on top of existing problems.
“Over the years, with political turmoil, poverty and now the earthquake, it’s devastating,†Armstrong said … Details
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Lance Armstrong says he’s much better prepared and fitter for the Tour Down Under than he was a year ago in his comeback race after more than three years away from cycling.
Asked about his mindset for the Adelaide race, which runs from Jan. 17-24, seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong told Australian Associated Press from Hawaii: “Totally different, because last year it had been 3 1/2 years since I had raced.
“I don’t even know what my mindset was—(it) was: ‘I’m just going to get back into the thing, I don’t know what the sport is like these days, I don’t know what the tempo is like these days.â€â€™
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