Armstrong more than welcome: Tour of Spain director
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-09-09 11:22

"We've been respecting the decisions of team managers to bring the riders they want to for years. So if Discovery decided to bring him, he'd be more than welcome."

Armstrong last rode the Tour of Spain in 1998, when he finished fourth overall.

At the end of that race, the American was convinced by his future sporting director, Belgian Johan Bruyneel, that he should ride the Tour de France in 1999 to try to win it. He began his remarkable string of seven wins that year.

Currently led by Russian Denis Menchov, the Tour of Spain finishes in Madrid on September 18.

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