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Lance Armstrong: What’s next?
With Lance Armstrong’s European racing retirement just a couple of weeks away, what’s up next for the seven-time Tour de France champion? At this point rumors abound on what his next move might be.
In the short term he’s still racing the Tour and with his chance of winning the overall completely gone, his only opportunity is to go stage hunting. Bill Strickland, author of Tour de Lance, picks stage 13 as the most probable.
Strickland points to the final climb of the day, the Cote de St. Ferreol, as the location where Armstrong could make his move.
“Armstrong knows that climb well: The last time the Tour finished here was in 2005, and Armstrong, along with favorites such as Jan Ullrich, Alexander Vinokourov, Ivan Basso and others, powered an escape that held a 20-second gap over the field to the finish.”
Stage 13 could be lucky for Armstrong, however it might be a gut reaction for the peloton to mount a chase and not allow the Texan out of sight. I’m wondering if Team Sky might just not organize to assure he never gets more than a couple of pedal strokes ahead of the bunch. I haven’t heard about any war of words lately between Garmin-Transitions and RadioShack, but they might take this as one last opportunity to stick it to Armstrong. But hey, maybe Garmin-Transitions director Matty White is a bigger man than me – I’m just a vengeful guy who enjoys sticking it to a rival.
After the peloton rolls into Paris, they complete their ceremonial hot laps on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and Armstrong unclips for the last time, where does he go from there?
Read the full post at Versus.com.
Chris Lieto does not hold the HI IM bike course record as stated in the lopnger post on versus.com. That distinction goes to Normann Stadler, who rode 4.18 in 2006.