Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, of Spain, showed a rather ugly and arrogant side on Monday when he made comments about his dislike for American and 7-time Tour champion Lance Armstrong.

“My relationship with Lance is zero,” Contador said at a news conference, one day after winning his second Tour. “He is a great rider and has completed a great race, but it is another thing on a personal level, where I have never had great admiration for him and I never will.”

“On this Tour, the days in the hotel were harder than those on the road,” Contador said. “The situation was tense and delicate because the relationship between myself and Lance extended to the rest of the staff.”

Armstrong, who tried to be diplomatic and the wise veteran on the team, responded via his Twitter to his former cocky and victorous teammate.

“Seeing these comments from AC. If I were him I’d drop this drivel and start thanking his team.”

I believe Lance is right. Contador won the 2009 Tour de France because he is a great rider but having a great team is the only way any rider can win the grueling Tour.  Contador not only had the greatest Tour rider on his side, and at his back, in Armstrong, but he also had the best team manager Johan Bruyneel.

That will change next year when both riders leave Astana.  Armstrong and Bruyneel have already announced the formation of the American team, Team Radioshack.  Bruyneel will put together the best team possible for Sir Lance to mount a challenge to Contador to regain his place on the top of the podium.

Retired Belgium cycling great Axel Merckx had the following to say on his Twitter.

A champion is also measured on how much he respect his teammates and opponents. You can win a race on your own not a grand tour.

And Astana team director Johan Bruyneel went all Abe Lincoln on his Twitter feed:

Sometimes it is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt!

I think both men sum up the situation quite perfectly.

Seven-time Tour de France cycling winner Lance Armstrong became a dad for the fourth time on Thursday with the arrival of baby Max Armstrong.

Lance and his girlfriend Anna Hansen announced the pregnancy back in December.

Max came into the world weighing 7 lbs. 5 oz. and at 20 inches long.

Armstrong announced the birth of Max on his Twitter page @lancearmstrong:

Wassup, world? My name is Max Armstrong and I just arrived. My Mommy is healthy and so am I!

During the pregnancy, Lance and Anna had called the unborn child the ‘Miracle Baby.’

Lance has three children from his first marriage to Kristin Armstrong, a son Luke and twin girls Isabelle and Grace.

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American cyclist Lance Armstrong was rushed to a hospital in Spain today after crashing during a cycling race there.  Armstrong was taken to the hospital by ambulance and likely broke his collar bone.

This update just made by CNN:

Armstrong reportedly fell around 20 kilometers from the finish and was seen pointing to his collarbone, CNN’s Al Goodman reported from northern Spain.

Organizers said Armstrong was taken to hospital at Palencia and had withdrawn from the race.

The 37-year-old Armstrong, who ended a three-year retirement to return to competitive cycling in January, walked to the ambulance unaided, television pictures from the scene showed.

A group of 15 to 20 riders fell, according to Bartosz Huzarski, a cyclist racing for the Italian team ISD. Huzarski, who saw the fall, said he did not know what had caused it. Only Armstrong appeared to indicate he was hurt, the Polish cyclist said.

Armstrong and his Astana team are in Spain competing in the Vuelta of Castilla and Leon race.  Today was the first day of the five stage race.

Updates: Lance has in fact fractured his collarbone.

Actress Kate Hudson wasted no time getting over Lance Armstrong before letting former NHL star Eric Lindros hop aboard the Hudson Express according to Perez.

Sources reveal exclusively to PerezHilton.com that Hudson is once again seeing an ex-boyfriend of hers, a fella by the name of Eric Lindros.

“Kate and Eric have been holed up at her parent’s [Goldie & Kurt's] house Muskoka, Canada,” a well-placed insider tells us. “She went there immediately after she and Lance ended things.”

Kate is wasting no time on the celebrity merry-go-round these days. It sounds like she already had a deal with Lindros locked up before exiting Senor Armstrong’s bike. Armstrong and Hudson dated for nearly four months.

Kate better be careful to not bang Eric’s head into the headboard or else he could be out of commission for 3-4 months with another concussion.

7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and People’s ‘Most Beautiful’ Kate Hudson were spotted over the weekend twice in Austin, Texas.

The seven-time Tour de France winner and the actress were spotted in Austin on both Friday and Saturday nights. First, the pair dined at Eddie V’s, a high-end restaurant frequented by Armstrong, according to a restaurant insider.

The next night, Hudson, 29, and Armstrong, 36, ate at the casual Hula Hut with the athlete’s three children and a group of friends. “They came in with the kids and a large group of people,” says another restaurant source. “They ordered dinner – tacos, burgers and fries and that sort of stuff.”

Lance’s past women have included ex-wife Kristin Armstrong along with Sheryl Crow, Ashley Olsen, and Tory Burch.

Kate was married to rocker Chris Robinson.  She has also been romantically linked to Owen Wilson, Eli Craig, Eric Lindros, Matthew McConaughey, Brendon Sexton III, Elijah Blue Allman, Nic Cestar, and Dax Shepard.

source: WDW

7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong ran a time of 2:50:58 on Monday at the Boston Marathon.  It is the third marathon for Armstrong.  It is the third marathon he has competed in with the other two being the New York Marathon.

Matthew McConaughey was no where to be found.

Seven time Tour de France cycling champ Lance Armstrong and eccentric actress Ashley Olsen are the latest celebrity couple that has everyone scratching their heads.  The two were spotted on Monday getting all cozy together in New York City.

Lance Armstrong and Ashley Olsen appear to be getting friendly: The unlikely twosome have met up at least twice this week while the former Tour de France champ is in town for the New York Marathon, sources tell PEOPLE.

An observer tells PEOPLE: “Lance was hanging with her, definitely. [Olsen] was very flirtatious, and was sitting on his lap.”

I don’t know if anyone would have ever put Olsen and the cycling champ together. It was of the weirdest couples of the year.  I am very curious as to how they even met.   Armstrong is in town for the New York City marathon.

Lance Armstrong, the greatest cyclist of all-time, and fashion designer Tory Burch have ended their relationship.

Counters a Burch source, “Tory would have moved to Texas for him if he popped the question. But he didn’t want to commit. (Armstrong’s rep had no comment.)

Lance on the other hand claims it was a distance thing (Texas v. NY). I didn’t think any distance was too far for Sir Lance-A-Lot and his magical bike.

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Lance Armstrong is keeping his competitive fire burning by running the New York City Marathon today. Here are some of Armstrong’s thoughts on running his first 26.2 mile race.

The NYC Marathon will be the first one that Armstrong has competed in:

“The perception is that I’ve done a marathon before because of the triathlons I used to run. People think “Ironman,” and they think I’ve run a marathon. But I haven’t done a marathon. The longest I’ve ever run is 16 miles and that was a week ago. This is a milestone for me as well. I’m nervous.”

Why he chose to run his first marathon in New York City:

“Aside from the biggest and most prestigious marathon, it’s arguably the greatest city in the world. New York has always been great to me. And then you get into the aspects you hear about later on, the support from the community, from the boroughs, the party atmosphere, that appealed to me. It’s not the fastest or the easiest marathon, but it’s such a great city.”

Lance’s target finish time:

“I’m targeting 3 hours. I’ll be happy if I finish in under 3.”

Training for a marathon can bring about many ailments to the body:

“I’m one of them. It’s been up and down. When I first got into it seriously, I had hip flexor issues. They have gone away, but they’ve been replaced with shin splints, about the worst thing you can have for running. But I’m icing them, getting massaged, taking ibuprofen — just trying to keep it together for Sunday.”

I personally believe everyone should run a marathon at least once in their lifetime. Anyone can truly do it. You don’t have to be a great runner or even jogger. I have seen 300 pound women finish marathons as well as some of the most unathletic human beings. It just takes the will to want to finish. You put one foot in front of another and you are at the finish line before its even noon.

I have competed in two marathons. The first was in San Diego and the second was in Tucson, Arizona.  My #1 goal in each one was to finish.  I ran the first in 3 hours and 39 minutes. In my second marathon my goal, in addition to finishing, was to beat my time from the first marathon. I ran the second one in 3:22.  I would eventually like to beat three hours.

UPDATE: Lance met his goal and finished the NYC Marathon in 2:59:36. He had this to say after the race:

“I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier,” he said. “[My shins] started to hurt in the second half, especially the right one. I could barely walk up here, because the calves are completely knotted up.”

He called the race “the hardest physical thing I have ever done” — even more grueling than his worst days on the Tour.

“Before the race that was my goal, I wanted to break 3 hours. But if you told me with 3 miles to go, ‘You’re going to do 3:05,’ I wouldn’t have cared,” he said. “Honestly, at the end I was so tired, I couldn’t care. Now I’m glad I did.”

“Now’s not the time to ask that question. The answer now is no, I’ll never be back. But I reserve the right to change my mind,” he said. “I don’t know how these guys do it.”

Askmen.com has unveiled its Top 49 Men of 2006 list.  The annual list is voted on by the readers of the website. Askmen.com has over 7 million world-wide readers.

AskMen.com readers were asked to name the “best representatives�? of the male gender. After casting more than 1 million votes, they ranked George Clooney #1. Rap artist and mogul Jay-Z was the Top 49 runner-up and business pioneer and adventurer Richard Branson was ranked third. The rest of the top 10, in order, is cyclist and cancer-survivor Lance Armstrong, designer and style icon Tom Ford, movie and TV producer Jerry Bruckheimer, actor Johnny Depp, athlete David Beckham, real estate developer Jorge Perez, and former President Bill Clinton.

The Top 49 is an alternative to the common “Most Sexy” and “Most Beautiful” lists published elsewhere because it was decided by average men. AskMen.com polled its own readers to develop the inaugural Top 49 Men of 2006 list by asking them to nominate 100 “ambassadors of male-kind.�? Readers were told to look beyond attributes like good looks, wealth and fame. After a month-long voting period, readers chose the Top 49 finalists who are admired for a variety of prized male traits like integrity, charisma and intelligence

Other notable names:

#12 Jon Stewart

#14 Denzel Washington 

#18 Lenny Kravitz 

#22 Lebron James 

#25 Rupert Murdoch 

#28 Justin Timberlake 

#29 Steve Jobs 

#31 Dane Cook 

#34 Pharrell 

#36 Ashton Kutcher 

#39 Tom Brady

#42 Ben Affleck

Cycling great Lance Armstrong and actor Matthew McConaughey have come out but only to say they aren’t gay according to PEOPLE.

Armstrong says his newly-close relationship with McConaughey grew out of the fact that they were both suddenly single at the same time. McConaughey had broken up with actress Penelope Cruz and Armstrong had called off his engagement to singer Sheryl Crow.

So Lance, Matt and Jake are just boys having fun.

“I think people see pictures and they think we’re these overgrown frat guys, but we all have those kinds of relationships – and relationship isn’t a bad word,” says Armstrong. “I mean, we all have buds, we all take guy trips, but you take something very normal and you put it in a magazine, and people start talking.”

Matthew McConaughey is the ‘Redneck Buddha’?

Armstrong, 35, calls McConaughey, 36, the “Redneck Buddha,” and says the actor’s laid back style has been a good influence on him – especially when it comes to gossip. “His idea is like, ‘Look, it is what it is, so go out there and have fun.’ He’s truly carefree – which is to say, he truly doesn’t care.”

Cowboy Jake Gyllenhaal , of Brokeback Mountain fame, might have more than a passing crush on Lance Armstrong.  It appears he is training to play the seven-time Tour de France winner in a biopic on the cancer survivor’s life.

Now we hear that Jake is in training for the role and part of that training is spending every waking moment with Lance. They were recently spotted together in France for the Tour de France.

First horses, now bicycles, what is next for Jake to ride?