He sat on the side of a small goat path of a road, with his left shoulder slumping, grimacing in pain.Â
It was only the first day of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, a five-stage road race in northern Spain.Â
Near the end of the first stage, Lance Armstrong got caught in a funnel of riders jockeying for position, hit a rider in front of him and went flying over the handlebars.
As he sat there, he later told the Associated Press via a teleconference from Austin, Texas, “You’re laying there, and you sort of ask yourself, ‘What the hell am I doing here?'”Â
Indeed, after three years of the bike, coming back to the sport he once dominated was proving to be a tougher task than he originally thought.Â
At 37 years old, the body…Â Details