STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Lance is in.
David Nagel, event director for the Aug. 8 Ride 4 Yellow event in Steamboat Springs, confirmed Wednesday that cycling superstar Lance Armstrong plans to pedal in one of the event’s two signature mountain bike rides.
Armstrong will ride in the Ride the Divide event, a 26-mile course along the Continental Divide Trail. The ride starts on Rabbit Ears Pass and ends at the top of the gondola at Steamboat Ski Area.
Nagel said the ride, which requires cyclists to collect $500 in donations for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, is about half full, with about 100 of the 200 spots spoken for.
The news was revealed in a Twitter post from Ben Coates, who is in France representing Trek and assisting Armstrong in his quest to win his eighth Tour de France title and his first since he won seven straight from 1999 to 2005.
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