Here's another in a series of photos posted by Lance Armstrong over at Twitpic. He's been training in the yellow and black Livestrong kit all week, which makes him easy to identify (click photo for larger version).
Saturday's training ride for Armstrong and Team Astana included a bike ride in the mountains of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
The latest story from the training camp comes from directeur sportif Johan Bruyneel, who has managed 8 Tour de France championships — one with Alberto Contador and seven with Armstrong. Bruyneel told the AP that he has more challenges than just winning races now.
“It’s not about winning the Tour. It’s not about winning anymore, for me. This comeback is an interesting project. It’s exciting because its very unknown. … We don’t know what’s going to happen.”
He's talking about managing a team with two huge stars, Armstrong and Contador.
“It’s two big stars and it’s interesting to see how they’re going to work together and how it’s going to go. Ultimately, if it works out well, I know that my role is very important in that and I would be very happy.”
Armstrong is planning to compete in the Giro d'Italia for the first time ever; Contador isn't racing in the three-week event.
About a month later, the Tour de France gets underway. Armstrong says he'll ride in support of Contador in that event.
By the way, here's a roster of Team Astana. It's alphabetical, that's why Armstrong is listed first…
Lance Armstrong
Assan Bazayev
Jani Brajkovic
Alberto Contador
Valeriy Dmitriyev
Alexandr Dyachenko
Jesús Hernández
Chris Horner
Maxim Iglinskiy
Roman Kireyev
Andreas Klöden
Berik Kupeshov
Levi Leipheimer
Steve Morabito
Dmitriy Muravyev
Daniel Navarro
Benjamín Noval
Sérgio Paulinho
Yaroslav Popovych
Bolat Raimbekov
Gregory Rast
Sergey Renev
José Luis Rubiera
Michael Schär
Tomas Vaitkus
Andrey Zeits
Haimar Zubeldia
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