ESPN.com - His competitive thirst apparently unquenched, Lance Armstrong has told Vanity Fair magazine that he intends to try to win an eighth Tour de France in 2009. "Ultimately, I'm the guy that gets up," Armstrong told Vanity Fair. "I mean, I'm not going to lie ... my back gets tired quicker than it used to and I get out of bed a little slower than I used to. But when I'm going, when I'm on the bike -- I feel just as good as I did before." The Texan said he would use cycling to promote cancer research as a means of finding a cure for the disease that almost killed him 12 years ago. He also wants to answer the critics who say they believe he doped his way to his seven Tour wins. According to the magazine story, Armstrong has vowed to submit to vigorous testing both by outside agencies and an independent program.  Armstrong said that if French officials were to try to keep him from racing in that country, he would make a direct personal appeal to French president Nicolas Sarkozy. "I've already put a call in to him," Armstrong told Vanity Fair. "Look it up. He's said strong things about me in the past."

I fucking can’t stand Lance Armstrong.    Seriously this may be worse news for me than Tom Brady being out for the season.   I mean are we really going to have put up with another year of non stop Lance Armstrong dick sucking and everybody talking about how he’s the best athlete in the world?Because if we are please kill me now.   Listen, I give Lance credit for riding a bicycle with one nut and for promoting cancer research.  But who cares if he wins another Tour De Bike Race.  We get it already.  He’s better than the  other 12 people who ride a bike for a living.  Seriously being a professional bike rider is like playing Intramurals in college and the winner should be treated accordingly.  Joey Chestnut is a bigger American hero in my mind than Lance Armstrong and he has half the ego.  If anybody should be dating celebrities and getting interviewed by Vanity Fair it should be Chestnut instead of that egomaniac Lance Armstrong.