http://www.tdf-tours.com/ Just days after French President Nicolas Sarkozy's party lost regional elections, 7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong comforted Sarkozy by offering him a brand new bike at the Presidential Palace. Armstrong twittered last night that he met with the French president in Paris and gave him the new bike with on the seat tube the “Bleu, Blanc et Rouge” colours of the French flag. Sarkozy apparently autographed the bike frame.
“Had to throw a little @Livestrong love on there!!” one the Tweets said, showing the logo on the bike frame of Armstrong’s Livestrong Foundation against cancer. Also present were Armstrong’s girlfriend Anna Hansen and Johan Bruyneel, his long-time friend and managing director of his team RadioShack. The French president is known to be a bike aficionado. He has followed several stages of the Tour de France in the past, most recently the Mont Ventoux finish in 2009.
Lance Armstrong is in France to race the 2010 Criterium in Corsica. For the first time this season, he will compete against archrival Alberto Contador. The Spanish rider is heavily favoured to win the 2010 Tour de France although Armstrong has recently played up his chances of an unprecedented 8th podium.
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