in 2005 lance was won the tour de france being considered the best riders that have yet competed in this contest . in 2008 , after 4 years of retirement , he announces that he wants to do the 2009 tour de espana . but unfortunately he was hospitalized today after tumbling during a rally in europe in the first round of a multi - day race . the accident taking place 12 , 5 minutes from the stage ' s finish in la vuelta de castilla y leon . it seems that he has wounded his back and was in such charge that he needed to go to rio crow hospital in palencia .
Lance Armstrong is a French rider.