tour de france

from thatsfit.com

He'll be no sex champion now that he's come out of retirement and has committed to training for his eighth Tour de France. But Lance Armstrong sure hopes to champion another cycling win, adding to his record of seven consecutive first-place Tour finishes. Let the training begin. The sex?

from forbes.com

The doping controversy surrounding this year's Tour de France cycle race has done for Lance Armstrong's former team that dominated professional cycling for a decade.

from slate.com

By the time the 2007 Tour de France hobbled down the Champs-Élysées this past Sunday, the event was drastically reduced in field size, star power and honor. Two whole teams and several prominent cyclists had withdrawn for anti-doping violations, among them the race-leading Michael Rasmussen and the prerace favorite, Alexandre Vinokourov.

By DANIEL COYLE, New York Times ‘‘That’s the one,’’ Floyd Landis said, his index finger tapping rapidly on a glossy page. ‘‘That’s what I want.’’ It was a lovely June evening in Murrieta, a small city in Southern California, and it was 10 days before the start of the Tour de France, the most prestigious and grueling of all cycling races. Landis, one of America’s hopefuls in the race now that Lance Armstrong has retired from the sport, was sitting on his patio, eating a piece of Greek-style pizza and shopping for a new hip. Actually, he was not shopping so much as hunting. As Landis looked through the pages, his lean 5-foot-10, 150-pound body shifted hungrily, his muscles flickering beneath his tan Harley-Davidson T-shirt and blue jeans. His gaze was sharp and intense; his reddish hair stuck out in spots, as if it were electrified.