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Armstrong tunes into recruiting for Team Radioshack
2009-07-24
ANNECY, France (AFP) - With his chances of winning this year's yellow jersey all but over, Lance Armstrong said Friday he is already looking at potential riders for his new team at next year's Tour de France. Spain's Alberto Contador is set to win the yellow jersey for the second time on Sunday following his 2007 success and with two stages remaining Astana team-mate Armstrong is third in the general classification at 5:21. Armstrong, 37, who won the last of his seven Tour de France titles in 2005, will lead Team Radioshack in the 2010 race and while no riders have yet been signed, he is looking at several options. "We haven't signed anybody yet, but there are still a lot of guys on the radar," said the Texan who finished 12th in Friday's 19th stage behind winner Mark Cavendish. "Obviously there are a few guys I have already been working with like Levi Leipheimer, Chris Horner and Andreas Kloeden. "We have a good bunch of guys here and we want to keep them together. "The structure we have here (at Astana) is the same structure we had at Discovery Channel and United States Postal Services and it's a good one." Armstrong won six of his seven yellow jerseys with the US Postal Service team, winning his last in 2005 with Discovery Channel. In 2007 Contador won the Tour while riding for Discovery Channel. Armstrong said he is impressed with up-and-coming United States teenage rider Taylor Phinney, who was crowned individual pursuit world champion earlier this year and currently rides for Armstrong's Livestrong development team. The 37-year-old American successfully battled cancer in 1998 to return to cycling and win the first of his seven consecutive yellow jerseys in 1999.
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