Next Year's Tour Moved to May to Avoid Rainy Season, Will Feature Route Changes (AP) Lance Armstrong will compete in next year's Tour of California, which will feature route changes and be moved from February to May to avoid the rainy season. The 16 host cities for the May 16-23 road race were announced on Thursday via a Twitter exchange between Armstrong, three-time Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer, Dave Zabriskie and George Hincapie, and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The announcement means Armstrong will not compete in the 2010 Giro d'Italia, which will also be held in May. Armstrong raced the Giro for the first time this year, finishing ninth, but Italian... [read full story]
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