It was like old times this morning outside Lance Armstrong’s team bus on stage 13 of the Tour de France, albeit a day ahead of the race proper, and more so for the assembled journalists and photographers than Armstrong himself.
Rather tentatively, Armstrong walked down the steps of the Le Tour One Day Ahead coach and into the sunlight at eight o’ clock sharp. A sometimes unruly swarm of around 50 reporters had gathered to meet him in the carpark of a Leader Price supermarket in sleepy, unsuspecting Vernet, a few hundred metres from where the Tour peloton will begin its 198.5km journey to Rodez tomorrow. The locals had apparently stayed in bed.
The first question came immediately: “Lance, how is it to be in France?”
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“It’s nice to be back, yeah,” Armstrong replied, smiling.
It was then put to him that many who are following and riding the Tour itself have taken a dim view of his participation in former footballer Geoff Thomas’s charity ride, which aims to raise a million pounds for CureLeukemia.
“I understand people’s reactions,” Armstrong said. “I understand there are still some hurt feelings and that’s a process I’ll walk through for a long, long time.
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