| Armstrong to Ride in Tour De France Again
PARIS (AP) -- Six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will attempt his
seventh consecutive win in cycling's most prestigious race this summer.
Armstrong's schedule "will include this summer's Tour de France, where he will
go for a seventh straight victory," his Discovery Channel team said on its Web
site Wednesday.
"I am grateful for the opportunity that Discovery Communications has given the
team and look forward to achieving my goal of a seventh Tour de France
(victory)," it quoted the Texan as saying.
The announcement ended speculation about whether Armstrong would skip the race
to focus on other events. Last year he became the first cyclist to win the Tour
de France six times.
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"I am excited to get back on the bike and start racing although my condition is
far from perfect," Armstrong said in the statement.
Armstrong will start his season with the Paris-Nice stage race in March. He will
then race in the Tour of Flanders on April 3, before seeking to defend his title
at the Tour de Georgia in the United States later that month, the statement
said.
Armstrong added that he and team manager Johan Bruyneel "will evaluate my
fitness later this spring and possibly add some races to the calendar."
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