Kelly: injury won’t wreck Armstrong’s Tour de France dream

SEAN KELLY predicted yesterday that Lance Armstrong will be back in plenty of time for his bid to extend his Tour de France victories come high summer and Tour of Ireland Project Director, Darach McQuaid, said the mishap will not affect Armstrong’s participation in the Irish showpiece in August.

Armstrong’s crash in stage one of the Castilla y Leon stage race in Spain resulted in a clean collarbone fracture, meaning his recovery should be quick.

And his Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel predicted he would be back in time to bid for his eighth Tour de France title in July, and may even compete in the Giro d’Italia in May.