Lance Armstrong is nudging closer to the podium in this spring's bicycle races.
The 6-time Tour de France winner finished in a chase group just behind winner Laurent Brochard in today's Paris-Camembert.
The 37-year-old Brochard, riding for Bouygues Telecom, won the 124-mile race in 4 hours and 14 minutes. The chase group of 30 riders crossed the finish line 7 seconds behind Brochard. Race officials ranked Armstrong as the 24th place finisher in Paris-Camembert, according to VeloNews.
At the Brabantse Pijl bicycle race in Belgium on Sunday, Armstrong finished in 43rd place, more than three and a half minutes behind the winner, Oscar Freire. That was his first bike race since he dropped out at the mid-point of the week-long Paris-Nice race about three weeks ago.
Armstrong is set to race with his Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team this Sunday at the Tour of Flanders, also known as the De Ronde van Vlaanderen in Belgium. (An OLN broadcast of the Tour of Flanders is scheduled from 5-6:30 p.m. (EST) on Sunday.) After the 150-mile one-day classic, Armstrong and the team is scheduled to return to the US for the April 19-24 Tour de Georgia, which Armstrong won last year.
The Discovery team schedule has a full plate through April, May and June, leading up to the Tour de France, July 2-24, but it's uncertain which races Armstrong will join. When he announced in mid-February that he would attempt to win the Tour de France for an unprecedented 7th time this year, he said that he'd treat all the Euro spring classics as training rides for the big finish in France.
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