Is Lance Armstrong Doing the Leadville 100?

Update: he didn't race in 2007 but Lance Armstrong has entered for 2008.

A few weeks ago I posted the reasons it seemed that Lance Armstrong was still going to race the Leadville 100 this year. A Bicycling article the next day basically confirmed it. Since then a post on the LT100Bike group said that someone that had ridden with Lance at RAGBRAI had asked him about the Leadville 100. According to the poster, Lance said he wasn't doing this year but he wants to race and win it next year.

Someone also posted a link to a VeloNews article. In it Mark Higgins, Armstrong's spokesperson, was quoted saying that Lance still has a scheduling conflict and won't be doing it this year. Joe Polk also posted today on MTBCast that he had talked to Ken Clouber this morning and Ken hasn't heard anything from Lance. Ken did confirm that he has Floyd Landis's race application

With him being here in town Thursday night, it really seemed like he was planning on racing. We're only a 2 1/2 hour drive away. It's possible he just doesn't want people to know he'll be there. That seems unlikely since there was a lot of publicity about him doing RAGBRAI and the New York Marathon. Ken should also have heard from him.

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