Armstrong not committing to Tour yet

Inside the San Diego Air and Space Technology Centre wind tunnel, while a steady rain fell outside, Lance Armstrong was dripping wet and pedaling hard.

Inside the San Diego Air and Space Technology Centre wind tunnel, while a steady rain fell outside, Lance Armstrong was dripping wet and pedaling hard.

Armstrong, 37, is strongly into a cycling comeback, but has refused to commit himself to riding at the Tour de France, the race he won a record seven consecutive times, a race that gave him international sporting fame.

He hemmed and hawed, saying he wasn’t playing games about his indecision but that above all else he wanted to avoid what he called “tension” in this comeback project. Then, more bluntly, he said his final two rides at the Tour de France were “not fun.”

“This relationship between me and France, this is not what the media likes to play up, all this suspicion around doping. It’s very personal, I think, because of the way I race the Tour. To them panache is the guy who suffers, who’s swinging all over his bike and is about to fall off. I never found that an effective way to try and win.”

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