Lance Armstrong behind schedule in Tour preparation
After a nasty stomach virus hit 7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong earlier this month, the cancer survivor admitted at the Tour of the Gila on Thursday that he is behind in his Tour de France preparation."I'm definitely missing race days," Armstrong told Velonews on Thursday. "(The Tour of the Gila) is an opportunity not only for race days but also to do some work and compensate for the days that I've missed. We can look back at the year so far, and just between bad luck and illnesses I've pulled out of a few races. Now is the time to make up for that."
According to Armstrong, the virus, which he contracted at the Tour of Flanders in early April, was the worst of his cycling career...
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