Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong finished 10th in the prologue at the Tour of California in the first North America race of his comeback.
Armstrong, who made his comeback debut three weeks ago in the Tour Down Under in Australia, finished in four minutes, 37.17 seconds, 4.2 seconds behind prologue winner Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland.
"It's a new sensation because I haven't trained for efforts like that," Armstrong said after completing the 3.9-kilometre course around California's state Capitol.
"We changed the time-trial position a little bit, so it's the first time I got to go as hard as I could with a new position. All in all, I wanted to be top-10, top-15, so I have to be pretty happy."
His time trial bike, valued at more than $10,000, was taken from a team truck in Sacramento where Armstrong had used it in Saturday's prologue. Road bikes belonging to three of his team mates were also taken.
Despite the loss, Armstrong said he thought he would be able to catch up with the leaders later in the nine-day tour.
News taken from eurosport.com
Picture from AP
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