Fury over Lance Armstrong Giro d'Italia visit ignores real issuesSTUFF Lance Armstrong should be entitled to watch a race like any other member of the public. OPINION: Just when you thought next week's Giro d'Italia Grande Partenza in Jerusalem could not get any more controversial. BERNARD PAPON/AP Lance Armstrong's Tour de France wins have been expunged from the record books. While riders such as Marco Pantani, Bjarne Riis and Jan Ullrich have all been allowed to keep their Tour wins, there are only blank spaces next to the years in which Armstrong reigned. Armstrong's presence in Israel - while it adds another nice little subplot to the overarching narrative - is irrelevant by comparison.

Source: Stuff April 25, 2018 00:21 UTC