Armstrong: "It's been a hard three weeks"

lance armstrong Giro Italia 2009 stage 19

Astana won the team classification at the Giro d’Italia but Lance Armstrong was already in Rome airport when his team mates climbed onto the podium in the shadow of the Coliseum.

Armstrong rushed to Aspen because his girlfriend Anna Hansen was about to give birth to his fourth child.

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