Lance Armstrong's Racing Return Was a Family Decision

Karl Erikson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:16:00 GMT

Love him or leave him - and he does have his detractors - Lance Armstrong is coming out of retirement and will ride once again in the Tour de France. But he didn't enter into that decision lightly. He says it was a family decision.

The first person he spoke to was ex-wife Kristin. "Quite frankly, if she had said 'I don't support it,' I wouldn't have done it," says Armstrong. "But Kristin has been an amazing supporter. I need that from her."

Then Armstrong, 37, told Luke, his 8-year-old son. "'Don't tell your sisters,'" he told him. "His sisters tell people everything." But Luke kept the secret. He finaly told the girls, of course, AFTER it was public knowledge.

For Lance, it's all a matter of raising cancer awareness. He wants to "change the face of the disease worldwide, to increase funding, increase education, and erase the stigma of the disease in certain cultures. On the racing side, I'm starting with modest expectations."

Modest expectations never seem to get Lance anywhere, though. He's already won a world-record 7 Tour de Frances and he didn't do it with modest expectations. Course, he did turn away Sheryl Crow, so how good can his judgment really be?

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In a tender and bittersweet gesture McGrath's children, James and Holly, blew bubbles outside of the church, a tribute to the fact that their parents were wed in the same church in 1999. The children were accompied by their father Glenn.

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