Lance Armstrong, Tour de France legend, has ended his international career ended on Sunday last stage of the Tour Down Under in Australia.
At 39, the American champion, seven-time Tour de France, had indicated that it was his last international race.
He does not expect a special celebration to bid farewell after a career marked by so many controversies arising from allegations of doping.
"I leave knowing that I gave the best of myself and did not need that poses a plaque or a statue is set myself up", had said before the race, the Texan, whose sporting activity should continue with a few races at his home in the United States, and in mountain bike events and triathlons.
"I won seven times Tour de France because I think it has changed the approach of our sport," he said on that occasion. "It has revolutionized the way of training, mental toughness in a team, how to prepare for the races and run them, and how to sell the sport, telling stories to the world".
A federal investigation is underway in his country, launched after the doping allegations against him by his former teammate Floyd Landis.
Lance Armstrong has also dismissed the rumors started by the Australian media about wanting to buy the Tour de France.If he thinks it's a super idea, "he also believes it would be" expensive "and says he never had" any serious discussion "about that possibility.
