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 News from Around the Americas | March 2005 
Is Lance Armstrong Going to Retire?
 Reuters
Six-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong |
Paris - The announcement by six-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong that he would hold a media conference on the eve of the Tour of Georgia on April 18 has again fueled speculation about the American's future.
Armstrong took his time confirming that he would race in this year's Tour de France for his new team Discovery Channel and French sports daily l'Equipe, who disclosed that the news conference was going be held, hinted he might announce his retirement at the end of the season.
"I won't be doing the Tour forever. But it's still too early to talk about it. I will announce it to you, to the world, only later," Armstrong told French daily Le Figaro in an interview also published Wednesday.
Armstrong, who will support his team mate George Hincapie in next weekend's Tour of Flanders ProTour classic, added he found it harder and harder to stay away from is children.
"The hardest thing for me when I'm in Europe is to stay away from my kids who are in Texas," he said. "The long and many absences, the long distances make me want to say stop it, to return home and be near them."
Armstrong, 33, said his love for cycling as a sport was intact but he had lost his obsession with winning the Tour.
"To win a seventh Tour is now my objective. But seven would be just one more whereas six was magic," he said.
"I'm not interested in leaving a deep imprint. For cycling, I will remain the stranger who came from a faraway land." |
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