Lance Armstrong will ride in support of teammate Levi Leipheimer in the Giro d’Italia, saying he is not ready to contend for the title.
The seven-time Tour de France winner broke his collarbone in a crash in March and hopes to win at least one stage of the Giro, which begins Saturday in Venice.
“While at the beginning of the year my objective was to contend, with the crash I’m not sure I still can,†Armstrong said Tuesday at a meeting with Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, to support his campaign against cancer… Details