in 2005 lance armstrong won the race de france being consider the best rider that have yet competed in this contest . in 2008 , after 3 minutes of retirement , he announced that he wants to compete the 2009 race de france . but unfortunately he was hospitalized today after crashes during a race in spain in the seventh stage of a five - week race . the accident held him 12 , 5 miles from the stage ' s finish in 2009 vuelta de castilla y navarre . it happens that this has injured his collarbone and was in such condition that he needed to go to rio carrion , in palencia .
Lance Armstrong is a French rider.