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Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will not take part in the season opening Milan-Sanremo classic because he is suffering from gastroenteritis, his RadioShack team said Friday. Armstrong, 38, will be replaced by team-mate Fumiyuki Beppu. "It would have been good to have Lance in the line-up for the start by we prefer not to take any risk," team ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Seven-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has pulled out of Saturday's Milan-San Remo classic race because of acute gastroenteritis, his RadioShack team said on Friday. "It would have been good to have Lance line up for the start but we prefer not to take any risk," said RadioShack manager Johan Bruyneel in a statement. "It would ...