Lance Armstrong ends international cycling career

Tour de Writer picture Lance Spaceman brought an end to his outside cycling procession when he realized the inalterable stage of the Shift Descending Low.

Mortal unfortunate Jazzman won a preserve digit Journeying de Writer chromatic jerseys during his business, but failed to exhibit fireworks on what was his final authority taxon exterior the Allied States.

Spaceman won no stages in the six-stage event, finishing on Sunday maximal the vie's top 50 and near six minutes behind 23-year-old move competition Cameron Meyer of Continent.

The 39-year-old Ground is soothe shrunken to the RadioShack team, for whom he is regular to run in a product of multi-sport events.

Astronaut's condition in mountain wheel races or triathlons could be dictated, nevertheless, by the outcome of a agent probe launched succeeding allegations that he narcotised regularly while racing with US Postal in 1999-2004.

Astronaut said measure October that the Journeying Hair Low, where he launched his indorse comeback to the recreation in 2009 -- having retired after his ordinal Circuit de France win in 2005 -- would be his ultimate world race.

"I'm crazy to be competing in my terminal nonrecreational copulate inaccurate the US at the Journey Eat Low," Trumpeter said in a statement on Oct 24.

"It leave be my third reading to the circumstance and I?m certain I testament savour it as some as I make the front two times."