Contador wary of Armstrong threat

Lance Armstrong’s final Tour de France will begin in Rotterdam tomorrow – and the favourite for the race is taking the seven-time champion’s bid for an eighth title seriously.

Lance Armstrong’s final Tour de France will begin in Rotterdam tomorrow – and the favourite for the race is taking the seven-time champion’s bid for an eighth title seriously.

Armstrong, who will be 39 in September, announced via social networking website Twitter earlier this week that the 97th Tour de France will be his last.

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