Already scheduled to return to the bicycle peloton next Tuesday for the Paris-Camembert, Lance Armstrong is coming back Sunday to compete in a race in Belgium.
“He called me this afternoon and said he feels great in the training and is hungry to race,” Johan Bruyneel, manager of the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team, told The Paceline.
Sunday's one-day Brabantse Pijl will be Armstrong's first in three weeks after he dropped out of the multi-stage Paris-Nice race with a sore throat and fever. Armstrong later said his training regimen was out of whack and he needed to concentrate on riding, and not racing, until he got back in shape. (Fellow American Bobby Julich went on to win the Paris-Nice race.)
Meanwhile, Armstrong may also appear as a domestique for Wednesday's Tour of Flanders, reports VeloNews.
The Texan has announced that he'll be trying for an unprecedented seventh Tour de France victory this summer. He'll treat all the competitions leading up to the Tour as training rides for the big prize.
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