Is Lance Armstrong on the same team as last year, where they had 2 top contenders on the same team, and Lance was relegated into a support role for his winning teammate?
I believe that may have cost Lance the opportunity to win, because he did not want to seem selfish, by outgunning his teammate?
That was a big mistake if you ask me!
I know Lance is on a new team, what I meant by my earlier question, is he on a team with another top contender the same as last year’s team.
Speaking of his ex-teammate, part of the drama on this year's tour will surely be seeing how Lance tries to settle that score with Contador who ended up not being very magnanimous in victory about all the help he got from Lance & his teammates in 2009. Team Astana has announced their lineup here:
- Alberto Contador (SPA)
- Alexandre Vinokourov (KAZ)
- David De la Fuente (SPA)
- Andriy Grivko (UKR)
- Jesus Hernandez (SPA)
- Maxim Iglinskiy (KAZ)
- Daniel Navarro (SPA)
- Benjamin Noval (SPA)
- Paolo Tiralongo (ITA)
Almost exclusively Kazakhstani & Spanish riders. We'll recall that Astana only let Johann out of his contract with them on the condition he wouldn't block Vino (who was banned from the sport for 1 yr for blood doping in 2007) from signing on with Astana.