Lance Armstrong

Armstrong and Hansen expecting child

With the Tour de France just nine weeks away, a windblown Lance Armstrong was candid about his condition at the SRAM Tour of the Gila. It’s not great, but it’s coming around, he said. “Yesterday I did not have a good day; I was off,” Armstrong told VeloNews. “Today I felt better.”

Lance Armstrong becomes part-owner of Honey Stinger, a Steamboat Springs, Colorado, based company that makes honey-based energy gels, bars and organic chews.

On the day he started the SRAM Tour of the Gila, Lance Armstrong announced he has become a part-owner in the Honey Stinger. Based in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the company makes honey-based energy gels, bars and organic chews.

RadioShack's Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer and Jason McCartney will race under as Team Mellow Johnny's at the SRAM Tour of the Gila in New Mexico.

Hooligans have destroyed a “monument” dedicated to the spot where Lance Armstrong broke his clavicle in last year’s Vuelta a Castilla y León.

Johan Bruyneel says RadioShack will attend New Mexico's stage race, joining a strong field that already includes three Garmin-Transistions riders racing for the DZ Nuts team.

Two sign-up days will be used for the second Mellow Johnny's Classic on Lance Armstrong's Texas ranch over Memorial Day Weekend; first reg day to support Livestrong.

A reader asks if it's really okay for a rider to raise a beer ... especially for a fee.

Lance Armstrong has been forced to pull out of the Circuit Sarthe cycling race before Wednesday's second stage because of illness, his RadioShack team said.

A broken wrist suffered at a little bike race held every July in France kept Levi Leipheimer off his Trek Top Fuel and from joining Lance Armstrong at the 2009 Leadville Trail 100. Before that, there was plenty of jawing between the teammates about the Race Across the Sky.

Armstrong to make rare Flanders appearance, Cavendish and Eisel on HTC-Columbia's Flanders team, Dominique Rollin heads the injury-plagued Cervelo squad

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Graham Watson photographs the final leg of the 2010 Critérium International.

Pierrick Fedrigo (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) wins the Critérium International.

Andrew Hood takes a look at what's sure to be one of the busiest weeks of the year.

Johan Bruyneel says the Giro d'Italia didn't fit Team RadioShack's plans for 2010 — instead, the team will focus on defending Levi Leipheimer's streak at the Amgen Tour of California.

Alberto Contador is skipping the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya in favor of the Critérium International — where Lance Armstrong is also slated to race.

Lance Armstrong will ramp up his preparation for the Tour de France by taking part in the Circuit de la Sarthe from April 6-9, the organisers said Thursday.

South Africans filled the podium at the Cape Argus cycle tour in South Africa Sunday, as RadioShack's Lance Armstrong assisted his South African teammate Daryl Impey, who wound up third.

Jet lag is a word that obviously isn’t part of Lance Armstrong’s vocabulary. While Europe has been gripped by its worst winter in decades, Armstrong’s road to the Tour de France this year has been full of sunny climes that would turn any jet-setting royal blue with envy.

Graham Watson shoots Stage 4 of the 2010 Vuelta a Murcia.

Czech rider Frantisek Rabon (HTC-Columbia) wins the individual time trial at the Vuelta a Murcia.

Triathlon star Chris Lieto raced an impromptu time trial against Lance Armstrong last week in Hawaii, finishing just 9 seconds back over 11 miles. Neal Rogers talked with Lieto about the race, his road racing career and Armstrong's future in triathlon.

The 2010 Tour won't be a two-man race between Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador, says José Azevedo.

Australia's Tour Down Under last month attracted record crowds, visitor numbers and income, the South Australian state government said Friday.

The notification date for Leadville Trail 100 applicants is slightly delayed, with hopefuls knowing if they are in the high-elevation race by Friday.

There are a lot of big names expected for the 101st edition of Milan-San Remo next month, but Riccardo Riccò isn’t among them.

Our readers weigh in on doping cases, the risks on the road and the Trek lawsuit.

Attorney Jamie DiBoise planned to call some noted Armstrong critics to testify at the trial, which had been scheduled to start less than four weeks from now in a Minnesota federal court.. And in October DiBoise took a three-hour deposition from Armstrong’s ex-wife, asking whether she had ever seen Armstrong use doping products (a question she declined to answer on her lawyer’s advice).

After a long history with Shimano, Armstrong is joining the rest of his RadioShack team on Look Keo Blade pedals for 2010.

Trek Bicycle and Greg LeMond reach a settlement in their suit over a licensing agreement between the three-time Tour de France winner and the Wisconsin-based bike maker.

The two Trek heavyweights rode the Miles of DisComfort marathon MTB race in Texas on Saturday. Hmmm, wonder who won?

Lance Armstrong will be back in the spring classics this year in a big way. RadioShack sport director Johan Bruyneel told Biciciclismo that Armstrong will race Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

The team time trial will be back for the 2011 Tour de France along with the infamous submerged causeway at Passage du Gois as details of the opening weekend for next year’s race were revealed Tuesday.

Our readers speak out on Lance, Landis and VeloNews TV.

To see Lance Armstrong registered for the 2010 Miles of DisComfort Mountain Bike Marathon in Comfort, Texas on Jan. 30 could mean a couple of things.

Astana and RadioShack are both expected to start the Vuelta a Castilla y León in northern Spain in mid-April

Chris Carmichael recently returned from Hawaii where Lance Armstrong had been training in the lead-in to the Tour Down Under. Armstrong’s current power output, according to his longtime coach, is where it used to be in April during the years he was winning the Tour de France.

So far people from 98 countries have applied for the LT100 lottery, which ends on Jan. 31. Guess who doesn't need to ask for an entry...

Team Sky drew first blood in Sunday’s Cancer Council Classic. But two days later in the South Australian village of Tanunda, 2008 champion Andre Greipel of HTC-Columbia fired the first real warning shot of the opening event of this year’s ProTour when he claimed the first road stage and ochre leader’s jersey at the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.

Around 5,000 amateur cyclists joined Lance Armstrong on Saturday for an impromptu ride announced on Twitter, causing chaotic scenes.

Saying they are now redundant, Lance Armstrong said on Saturday that he has dispensed with the additional personal doping tests he adopted to silence critics who suspect him of using drugs.

Old Willunga Hill — and Lance Fever — remains the highlight of the Santos Tour Down Under

As Tiger Woods did last November when he came, saw and conquered the Australian Masters golf tournament, Armstrong flew into Oz via private jet. Flying from Hawaii, his Gulfstream touched down in Adelaide a few minutes before 5 p.m Wednesday. Out popped Lance and girlfriend Anna Hansen, who cradled their seven-month-old son Max in her arms.

A handful of Graham Watson photos of Lance Armstrong in Adelaide, Australia, Thursday.

Lance Armstrong, in Sydney, Australia prior to the Tour Down Under, pledged $250,000 for victims of the Haiti earthquake on Thursday. He urged the public to come forward with further donations.

With a new decade of professional road racing getting under way, North American cycling has never looked stronger.

"Six years ago, the bigger racing names started coming over more often. Some visitors include Lance Armstrong, Svein Tuft with the whole Symmetrics team, Andy Hampsten, Connie Carpenter, Tom Danielson, Jeff Louder, Tyler Wren, Chris Wherry, Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski ..."

Lance Armstrong’s return to the podium of the Tour de France may have been the biggest story in cycling this year, but Johan Bruyneel says it nearly didn’t happen.

French officials have confirmed that they are investigating blood doping equipment discovered in a search of medical supplies belonging to the Astana team of Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong during this year's Tour de France.

An introduction and highlights of Neal Rogers' interviews with Team RadioShack's Chris Horner, Levi Leipheimer, Johan Bruyneel and Matthew Busche.

Word from Lance Armstrong's Austin bike shop is that an application is in to USA Cycling for a May 29-30 spot for the Mellow Classic on the national calendar.

You know the guy — maybe you've been him — the guy who is already suited up, with tires pumped, waiting for the rest of the gang to get its act together?

A look at the official Team RadioShack Treks for 2010

It’s a team highly reminiscent of the squads that took him to seven Tour de France wins, funded by an American sponsor lured into the sport by the draw of his star power — yet Lance Armstrong said Tuesday that his new RadioShack ProTour team isn’t built solely around him.

The lawsuit between Trek Bicycle and Greg LeMond is rolling, slowly, toward the courthouse and what could be an explosive trial. A federal judge in Minnesota last week rejected requests from each side to dismiss case, and granting each an assortment of minor victories and setbacks.

Allen Lim says his move from Garmin-Transitions to Team RadioShack for the 2010 season was based on new opportunities and challenges.

Despite the fact that the barbecue wine was Silver Oak and the bonfire was stoked with old art crates, a weekend at Lance Armstrong's ranch was still just a bunch of great folks enjoying the mountain bike lifestyle.

Someone swiped a Trek-Livestrong team time trial bike from Lance Armstrong's Mellow Johnny's bike shop over the weekend.

Haimar Zubeldia says he signed with Astana to work with Johan Bruyneel, and he signed with RadioShack for the same reason.

The 2010 team will include 26 riders from 16 nations.

Lance flatted out of his own Mellow Johnny's Classic race on Sunday and became a spectator. Check out what he was watching in the Singletrack.com slideshow.

JHK, Irmiger win at Lance's place

Jeremy Horgan Kobelski and Heather Irminger win the first Mellow Johnny's Classic

Steady rain — road-closing, trail-soaking, river-swelling rain — kept anyone from getting an early taste of the singletrack at Lance Armstrong's Juan Pelota Ranch on Friday.

With help from Lance Armstrong, Jeff Castelaz brings home his trek across the U.S. to raise awareness of children’s cancer

Lance Armstrong floated the idea of a mountain bike race on his ranch on Sept. 22, 2009. The race, coming this weekend, was sold out in a matter of days.

Lance Armstrong's Treks make a post-season, cameo comeback of their own.

So, what did ya think of the film about the Leadville Trail 100? Did you go? Did you like it? Hate it? Inspired? Laugh? Cry? Let's see your thumbs!

The first ever Mellow Johnny's Classic will be held at the Juan Pelota Ranch near Austin, Texas.

Documentary on the Leadville Trail 100 will play Oct. 20. Those willing to pay can eat and chat with Lance Armstrong to raise money for Fort Lewis College cycling program and Trails 2000.

Is it any surprise that a movie of the 2009 Leadville Trail 100 has been made? Special screenings of the film will air October at select theaters. Check out the film trailer here.

@lancearmstrong: Good morning Dublin. Who wants to ride this afternoon? I do. 5:30pm at the roundabout of Fountain Road and Chesterfield Avenue. See you there. What started out as a simple Tweet from his mobile phone just hours earlier turned into a Lance Armstrong frenzy when over a thousand riders turned up at 5:30 in Dublin’s Phoenix Park Tuesday evening. An army of Armstrong fans turned up from all over Ireland, and indeed from various other countries, in the hope of getting to ride with their idol, and they were not disappointed.[nid:97151]

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Chalk it up to Livestrong, the elevation or both, but the heady "Lance Effect" was undeniable at the Leadville Trail 100.

Trek, Lance Armstrong's bike sponsor, has sent a squad to Saturday's Leadville 100 to drive the pace with the goal of setting a course record.