Lance Armstrong is retiring from cycling.

Lance Armstrong is calling this one “Retirement 2.0″.

The 39 year old cyclist has made it clear that he is throwing in the towel on his cycling career, and this time he says it is for good. It has been about a month ago that he finished 65th in a competition race in Austrailia and nearly six years since he completed his seventh straight Tour de France.
Armstrong has said he is tired and tired of racing. He has reportedly admitted that he will miss racing but not the training regimen that goes along with it.

“I can’t say I have any regrets. It’s been an excellent ride. I really thought I was going to win another tour,” Armstrong said about his comeback attempt in 2009, four years after his first retirement. “Then I lined up like everybody else and wound up third.

“I have no regrets about last year, either,” he added, despite finishing 23rd. “The crashes, the problems with the bike - those were things that were beyond my control.”
Armstrong gained his fame by beating testicular cancer and won his first tour in 1999.

“His contribution to cycling has been enormous, from both the sporting point of view and his personality. All sports need global icons and he has become a global icon for cycling,” International Cycling Union President Pat McQuaid said. “The sport of cycling has a lot to be thankful for because of Lance Armstrong.”

Armstrong’s notoriety has shifted a bit though. A former teammate says that Armstrong has disgraced the sport by teaching athletes how to use drugs and still pass a test. Armstong told sources, “I can’t control what goes on in regards to the investigation. That’s why I hire people to help me with that. I try not to let it bother me and just keep rolling right along. I know what I know. I know what I do and I know what I did. That’s not going to change.”

In 1997, Armstrong founded the Livestrong Foundation and raised $10,000 using his story and celebrity to sell millions of yellow wrist bracelets and to enlist lawmakers in Texas and global policymakers on the scale of Bill Clinton in the cause. By the end of 2009 the foundation had raised nearly $400 million total.

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