Lance Armstrong Injured in Cycling Crash in Spain

Seven times winner Lance Armstrong's Tour de France, broke his collarbone on the right is lost during a step Monday in Spain, so their chances of winning an eighth Tour. Armstrong in his first season, after three and a half years ago, in sport, in May the loss of the Giro d'Italia in May, the second largest calendar. Johan Bruyneel, the Astana team leader, said Armstrong Twitter page, that the injury was a fracture of the clavicle, without complications. Must be fast. " But Armstrong, from the hospital and the University of Valladolid, Spain, was less optimistic. He told The Associated Press, was sent to the U.S. doctors to decide if you have an operation. There have been several months before the tour begins July 4. The Giro starts on May 9. "I think the visit is a big problem," he told reporters. He added: "I never before, is very painful. I am very satisfied." Armstrong and at least a dozen other runners dropped his bike on the opening Monday are available. Then Armstrong, sitting at the edge of the street before an ambulance transported rioja andalusia hospital for x-rays. Armstrong's career was the second in Europe after the turn of the season in the sport. He ran a day in Milan-San Remo on Saturday, finishing 125th. But five races this week in Spain was more than a stage race. Armstrong was the first with his teammate Alberto Contador, winner of the 2007 Tour, the two men competing for the pilot project is the Tour de France. Armstrong injuries, if bad enough, the question arises with the driver for the No. 1 team in the Tour. If Armstrong can try again in a career, his education will be hindered, no doubt. The amount of time required for the function of the severity of their injuries. Garmin-Slipstream team of David Millar, the former champion of the test broke the collarbone on the last stage of Paris-Nice. Been taken as a whole, at least two parties and the band is torn from the bones. Miller is at least four weeks after surgery on the collarbone, last Thursday. He said that training will resume next week.