Armstrong out of Milan-San Remo

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has pulled out of tomorrow’s Milan-San Remo classic due to illness.

The Team RadioShack leader is suffering from acute gastroenteritis and team director Johan Bruyneel said: “It would have been good to have Lance line up for the start but we prefer not to take any risk.

“It would not be very intelligent to let him start in a race of almost 300 kilometres while not being healthy.”