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Armstrong more than welcome: Tour of Spain director
Armstrong's suggestion that he might one day ride the Tour of Spain has received a warm welcome from the race director.
"I'm not going to comment on whether he should or shouldn't return to racing, that's up to him to decide and we respect that. "But if he returned and decided to race the Tour of Spain? That would be perfect. "And why shouldn't he do two major Tours in the same year? Even better." Armstrong, who retired after his record seventh successive Tour de France victory in July but is pondering whether to make a comeback, said: "The Tour de France is not the only bike race in the world. "But it is the biggest, so the possibility could still exist to do a Tour of Italy, a Tour of Spain," the American said at a motivational event in Mexico City on Wednesday. Cordero added that he "would have liked to have seen Armstrong racing the Tour of Spain while he was winning the Tour de France. "That's what I'd have liked to have happened and Miguel Indurain as well," he
said referring also to Spain's former five times Tour de France winner.
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Speaking after the Tour of Spain's 12th stage finished in Burgos on
Thursday, race director Victor Cordero told Reuters that "if Armstrong decided
to come back and race here, that would be fantastic.
