Whatever you think about him, he is the biggest story in sport this summer. OSM talks to Armstrong’s friends, enemies and rivals about his controversial comeback
Virtually everyone I run into is asking me, “Can he do it again?” People want to know whether Lance Armstrong, after an almost four-year absence, can win the world’s greatest bike race an eighth time. I tell them that everything is stacked against him.
At 37 years and 10 months, he is 18 months older than the oldest previous winner, the 1922 champion, Firmin Lambot of Belgium. And Armstrong has not won a single race this year in his return to cycling that began at January’s Tour Down Under. Yet I am confident that he will be a leading contender at the 2009 Tour starting in Monaco on 4 July. I even think he could win…Â Details