Lance Armstrong posted a 2-minute video at the LiveStrong.com website following his surgery for a broken collarbone.
It looks like Armstrong is sitting in his kitchen with a stack of CDs on a table and a blender containing a mystery concoction in the background.
In the video post, put up Thursday afternoon, he thanks his doctors and supporters and shows an X-ray of his collarbone with the metal strip and 12 screws holding it in place.
Armstrong said he's unsure about his recovery …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/27/armstrong-unsure-about-recovery-timetable/
Lance Armstrong underwent surgery to repair his right collarbone on Wednesday morning in Austin, and first reports say “all went well.”
Armstrong said Tuesday night through his spokesman that it wasn't a clean fracture and there were “multiple pieces” that his doctor, Austin surgeon Doug Elenz, will attach to a plate placed on top of the clavicle.
A note posted on Team Astana's Twitter website shortly after 3 p.m. ET said: “Lance is done with surgery. All went well.” Armstrong's spokesman said surgeons repaired the break with a 4-5-inch metal plate and 12 screws.
Armstrong broke his right collarbone when he fell in a pileup …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/25/armstrong-gets-surgery-to-repair-broken-collarbone/
Lance Armstrong's comeback road took a crushing detour Monday when he crashed near the end of Stage 1 of the Vuelta a Castilla y León bike race.
Team Astana reports that Armstrong suffered a broken collarbone in the crash, which occurred about 12.5 miles from the finish in Baltanás, Spain. He went down in a pileup with other cyclists.
Video at a Spanish website shows Armstrong holding his arm as he enters an ambulance. The pileup happened on a narrow stretch with about a dozen cyclists.
The footage from the helicopter shows support crews checking on riders and replacing bikes on the road, then pans to a solitary figure wearing a yellow helmet sitting about 8 feet off the road with his back to the action.
Astana team director Johan Bruyneel wrote on Twitter that it was a “clean collarbone fracture without complications. Should be fast recovery. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/23/lance-armstrong-crashes-in-spain-breaks-collarbone/
Columbia-High Road's Mark Cavendish notched another win this season by outsprinting Germany's Heinrich Haussler in the Milan-San Remo spring classic on Saturday.
The Brit on the US-based cycling team already has five stage wins this year in addition to winning this 100th edition of the 184-mile race through Italy.
It marked the return to Euro cycling by Lance Armstrong, who last competed here in 2002. Armstrong finished in the second big group to cross the finish line, 8:19 behind Cavenish. His official placement was 125th …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/22/mark-cavendish-wins-milan-san-remo/
P>The mountain bike race that lured Lance Armstrong back to professional bicycle racing is calling again.
Armstrong has registered for the Leadville 100, scheduled to roll out of the mountain town in Colorado on Aug. 15, about three weeks after the end of the Tour de France.
The Summit Daily News also reports that Floyd Landis may take a shot at the Leadville race this year as well.
The match-up between Armstrong and Landis had been one of the most bally-hooed in cycling in 2007 as both were out of the picture ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/18/armstrong-to-race-leadville-100-again-in-2009/
It seems that Lance Armstrong is competing in more races during his comeback year than he ever did during his earlier career.
The 7-time Tour de France winner announced that he's scheduled to ride in the 2009 Tour of Ireland from Aug. 19-23. That would make the eighth pro cycling race for Armstrong this year.
The race precedes the LiveStrong Global Cancer Summit which is scheduled for Aug. 24-26 in Dublin, Ireland …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/23/lance-armstrong-to-ride-in-tour-of-ireland-bike-race-televised/
A Sacramento resident walked into the Sacramento police headquarters this morning with Lance Armstrong's stolen time trial bicycle, solving a case that police had been working on since Sunday.
Although a police spokesman said he would not go into the details about how the person acquired the bicycle, “he is not a suspect at this time.”
The bicycle “appears to be in good condition with the wheels and the frame, however the mechanics for the team will have to review it … to see if there are any flaws or damage to it.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/19/citizen-turns-in-lance-armstrongs-stolen-bicycle-to-police/
Lance Armstrong and the Amgen Tour of California are reported to be drawing huge crowds along the route, in spite of heavy rain and cold temperatures.
More than 100 people crowded around the Astana trailer in San Jose to see Armstrong preparing for Stage 3 on Tuesday. Thousands gathered along the route.
Ann Killion, sports columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, asked former coach Jim Ochowicz what makes Armstrong ride? …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/18/what-makes-lance-armstrong-ride/
Members of the press apparently had a lot of time to get quotes and brush up their stories as they waited an hour for Lance Armstrong to urinate in the anti-doping trailer at the end of the prologue for the Amgen Tour of California.
Here's some of what's out there today about the comeback kid:
“Just to be in his presence. I don’t have to touch him but seeing what I saw today, I think I want to retire and be a groupie. No, not a stalking groupie. An appreciative groupie. For what he’s done for so many people. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/15/exaggeration-and-understatement-in-lance-armstrong-return/
A lot of you probably saw this one coming.
The much ballyhooed personal anti-doping program for Lance Armstrong has been scrapped because it's just too complicated.
Don Catlin, the anti-doping scientist hired to run the program, told the New York Times:
“In the real world, when you try to implement a program as grandiose as what you had in mind, it just becomes so complicated that it’s better not to try. We’re all disappointed, but it’s just not going to be possible.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/11/armstrongs-personal-anti-doping-program-forget-about-it/
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