Armstrong announces new team for next year's Tour
Posted: 07.23.2009 at 1:15 PM
Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour de France winner  / AP photo
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ANNECY, France (AP) — Lance Armstrong and Radio Shack are forming a new cycling team that will compete in next year's Tour de France.

The seven-time Tour winner made the announcement Thursday in a video on his Livestrong Web site. He also is expected to compete in running and triathlon events for Team RadioShack beginning in 2010.

Armstrong said in a statement he hopes to leverage the power of the electronics store chain to help his Livestrong Foundation in its fight against cancer.

The 37-year-old cancer survivor came out of retirement this year to ride for the Kazakh-funded Astana team. He is in third place overall after Thursday's time trial.