Cycling-Armstrong makes low key return to Tour for charity (Reuters)
By Anthony Paone VENERQUE, France, July 16 (Reuters) – Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong made a low key return to the Tour de France on Thursday when the American cancer survivor set off on a charity ride that follows the route of this year’s race. Dozens of journalists were in attendance at a supermarket car park in southern France ahead of the 43-year-old’s ride to Rodez, but no fans were there to greet the Texan. Armstrong, who was stripped of the seven Tour titles he won from 1999-2005 after admitting to doping following years of denials, is taking part in Geoff Thomas’s ‘One Day Ahead’ charity event.