For whatever reason, France hates Lance Armstrong. Seriously, they haaaate him. They hate him with a visceral disgust that they usually reserve for the Spanish (we’re just assuming that, like the residents here, Europeans hate anyone who lives across a political border from them). They were even discussing whether to make the day Lance broke [...]

Lance Armstrong has been on the post-cancer cycling comeback trail since announcing his unretirement back in January. However, his quest for an 8th Tour de France triumph may have been knocked off course.

During a race in Spain on Monday, Armstrong was caught up in a crash that involved as many as 20 other cyclists. Worst [...]

Lance Armstrong’s valiant return to the two-wheeled beast will not run through the great state of Georgia.  The Tour de Georgia will take a year off, hoping to return when corporate sponsors and state agencies can care again about sports after the Credit Crunch. Race officials couldn’t remotely begin to secure the reported $3.3m required [...]

It appears the ante has been upped in the Attention-Hounding Semi-Retired Waffling Athletic Idol competition between geezers Lance Armstrong and Brett Favre.

(Joe Paterno called..he said it’s time to retire already)
Newly-unretired pedalslinger Armstrong admitted in a Tuesday interview that he is now unsure whether he will compete in next summer’s Tour de France.

In the United States the human interest story of Lance Armstrong earned the cyclist a special place in the hearts and minds of Americans (including Matthew McConaughey), lots of cash and maybe even an Olsen twin.

In France, however, Lance remains an unpopular figure. In an interview with French sports newspaper L’EQUIPE, Jean-Etienne Amaury the new [...]

It could be argued that from 1999 to 2005, Lance Armstrong owned the Tour de France.   In those seven years, Lance won the race seven times, and pissed off a whole lot of French people in the process.   Well, if you think the French hated Armstrong for constantly winning their event, wait until they hear [...]

When Lance Armstrong finally retired from bicycling after winning his seventh straight Tour de France in 2005, it opened the door for his former teammate and fellow American Floyd Landis. Landis went on to win the 2006 Tour de France, but shortly afterward it was discovered that Floyd had been taking testosterone to boost his [...]

Looks like Americans are once again going to care about skinny men riding bicycles through the mountains of France: Lance Armstrong is giving up his nightly outings with Matthew McConaughey to return to the world of cycling.

The plan is thus: Armstrong, who turns 37 this month, will race in the Amgen Tour in California, Paris-Nice, [...]

Recently, Lance Armstrong took time out from pleasing the ladies to speak with MEN’S JOURNAL about, well, pleasing the ladies.

Apparently, riding a bike all day long is really bad for your sex drive, so now that the seven-time Tour de France champion has retired, it’s go time.

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