He's Baaack: "I'm going to try and win an eighth Tour de France," Says Lance
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong will indeed be rejoining the peloton, as confirmed by the athlete himself in an interview with Vanity Fair.
"I'm going back to professional cycling," said Armstrong. "I'm going to try and win an eighth Tour de France."
In an excerpt of the interview, Armstrong dismissed concerns that his relatively older age—he turns 37 next week—might affect his chances at another victory.
"Look at the Olympics. You have a swimmer like Dara Torres. Even in the 50-meter event [freestyle], the 41-year-old mother proved you can do it. The woman who won the marathon [Constantina Tomescu-Dita, of Romania] was 38. Older athletes are performing very well. Ask serious sports physiologists and they'll tell you age is a wives' tale. Athletes at 30, 35 mentally get tired. They've done their sport for 20, 25 years and they're like, I've had enough. But there's no evidence to support that when you're 38 you're any slower than when you were 32."
We guess this means he won't be gunning for that coveted Governor's seat that Perry will give up in 2010 ... or, on second thought, this might be the perfect pre-campaign booster.
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