Armstrong to lead Radioshack
Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong will head up Team RadioShack's Tour de France team.
Last Updated: 22/06/10 4:57pm
Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong will head up Team RadioShack's Tour de France team.
The 38-year-old is joined by two former podium finishers in the US-based team's nine-man squad for July's race.
Armstrong - whose most recent win was in 2005, before he came out retirement and finished third last year - has been selected as leader for Team RadioShack's debut in the Tour.
The two other most senior members of the team are Andreas Kloden of Germany - runner-up in 2004 and 2006 - and Levi Leipheimer of the United States, who was third in 2007.
Chris Horner is the third American in the party and is included alongside this month's Dauphine Libere winner Jani Brajkovic of Slovenia, Sergio Paulinho of Portugal, Ukraine's Yaroslav Popovych, Gregory Rast of Switzerland and Kazakhstan's Dmitriy Muravyev.
Armstrong, who was second overall in the Tour de Suisse last week, is seeking an eighth Tour title after finishing behind winner Alberto Contador and runner-up Andy Shleck in 2009.
