On Tuesday, September 9, 2008, seven time Tour de France win Lance Armstrong announce that in the 2009 season he will be returning to race road cycling. After a year of retirement he has deiced to come back and race the famous Tour de France and go for his 8th time winning the event. The reason that Lance says that he is returning to the sport of professional road cycling is because he want to raise the awareness of the global cancer burden. Lance will be turning 37 years old in the next month and he believes that it will not be a factor. Lance says “Looking at the Olympics, you have a swimmer like Dara Torres. Even in the 50m event (freestyle), the 41-year-old mother proved you can do it. The woman who won the marathon (Constantina Tomescu-Dita, of Romania) was 38. Older athletes are performing very well. Ask serious sports physiologists and they’ll tell you age is a wives’ tale” The main goal that Lance has in mind with his return to cycling is to spread his message of cancer. With his training Lance is dong a first time thing, her is going to be completely open with the press and show them his training regiment so that this is no possible way to cheat.
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