Update: Feb. 4 — Also cycling in Cape Argus bike ride in South Africa
Lance Armstrong and Team Radio Shack will compete at the Criterium International bike race on the island of Corsica on March 27 – 28.
That's a change for Armstrong, who originally was scheduled to race in the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya in Spain from March 22 – 28 .
Race director Christian Prudhomme made the announcement; he's also director of the Tour de France, which is owned by the same group that owns the Criterium. The schedule change …
Associated Press picked golfer Tiger Woods to be its Athlete of the Decade, beating out nine other male and female athletes, including Lance Armstrong.
Woods, whose squeaky clean image has been tarnished ever since he crashed backing out of his driveway last month, was chosen for dominating the world of golf for the past 10 years.
Armstrong finished second in voting by AP member editors. Woods got 56 to Armstrong's 33. And Armstrong finished far behind Woods in the number of late-night talk show jokes written about him.
More than half the ballots were turned in after the Woods crash that launched his sex scandal …..
Some interesting news from Lance Armstrong buried in other items at the Team RadioShack press conference in Tucson this week was his tentative bike racing schedule for 2010.
VeloNews mentions just six races for Armstrong in the 2010 season, although there's nothing to prevent him from adding more.
Here are the races as reported at VeloNews and the dates ….
Team RadioShack has issued a sneak peak of the prototype jersey the new US-based pro cycling team might be wearing next year.
Then Trek released a photo of the Madone that Team RadioShack will use in 2010. The graphic scheme will be available to the public in March.
I like the distinctive look of the jersey.
With the grey top and red through the torso, it should be easy to spot from helicopter camera views of the peloton. That's especially helpful if you're trying to find Lance Armstrong's team on a foreign language broadcast.
From the looks of the first day of training camp in Tucson on Monday, the team could use its own jersey. ….
“Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal” is the story of Lance Armstrong's return to professional cycling in 2009.
The story is told in his own journal entries interspersed throughout the book with color photos by Liz Kreutz, who followed Armstrong throughout the 2009 season.
The 208-page book will be released on Tuesday and will be followed by book signings and TV appearances (on “The Daily Show” and “Live with Regis and Kelly”) by Armstrong.
In an introduction written by Armstrong, the 7-time Tour de France champion tells what led him back onto the saddle after three years of retirement.
Ever since Lance Armstrong announced the formation of Team RadioShack in July, the confirmed identities of bike riders on the roster have dribbled out like sprinters struggling across the finish of a mountain stage.
Team manager Johan Bruyneel has now announced the final roster, identifying a 26-man team from 16 different countries. A large percentage of those bike riders came from Bruyneel's and Armstrong's former team, Astana.
The delay in making a final announcement stemmed from ongoing negotiations with the Kazakhstan-based team, currently the home of two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador.
Bruyneel said the team's main goal in 2010 is the Tour de France, although the team is expected to do well in other stage races as well as the one-day classics …
The federal judge in the contract dispute between Trek Bicycle and Greg LeMond says both parties should think about an out-of-court settlement to avoid a messy trial on the lawsuits in the spring.
Central in the suit – countersuit are allegations that LeMond made against Lance Armstrong and the Texan's reaction to them. The judge this week said Armstrong would be subpoenaed to testify at the trial scheduled in March.
Lawyers for both LeMond and Trek said they're willing to meet for settlement talks …
The 2010 LiveStrong Challenge fund-raising campaign is returning to Seattle, San Jose, Philadelphia and Austin — the same cities that hosted the events in 2009.
Because the current dire economic conditions that exist now may extend into next year, LiveStrong opted to put all expansion plans — which may include charity bike rides outside the US — on hold until 2011.
And no, don't expect to see Lance Armstrong at these events in 2010, organizers say. He'll be too busy training for the pro cycling season as he attempts an eighth career Tour de France win as the helm of his newly formed Team RadioShack.
Dates for the upcoming LiveStrong Challenges are ….
The text message that Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel sent to Lance Armstrong after the American cyclist broke his collarbone at the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon bike race in March. Bruyneel told a Belgian magazine that Armstrong considered abandoning his comeback at the time.
Armstrong underwent surgery to the shattered bone …
“Race Across the Sky” is a documentary on this year's epic Leadville 100 bike race that featured a rematch between David Wiens and Lance Armstrong and about 1,000 mountain bike riders.
Wiens, at 45, had won the grueling mountain bike race six straight times, including in 2008 when Armstrong decided to get back into cycling. Armstrong, 37, had won the Tour de France 7 times, but really wanted this Leadville win in his adopted state of Colorado.
Tonight's documentary is being billed as a one-night event at theaters across the country. It runs tonight at 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT with tape delay to 8 p.m. PT.
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Update: Feb. 4 — Also cycling in Cape Argus bike ride in South Africa 
Associated Press picked golfer Tiger Woods to be its Athlete of the Decade, beating out nine other male and female athletes, including Lance Armstrong.
Team RadioShack has issued a sneak peak of the prototype jersey the new US-based pro cycling team might be wearing next year.
Ever since Lance Armstrong announced the formation of Team RadioShack in July, the confirmed identities of bike riders on the roster have dribbled out like sprinters struggling across the finish of a mountain stage.
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