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Survivor -- again Armstrong bruised but mostly unhurt after accident
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lance Armstrong suffered only bruises after he and another cyclist were hit by a car in southern France in an accident that destroyed his bicycle and smashed his helmet into pieces. The two-time Tour de France champion took the brunt of the impact with the car Tuesday, but X-rays proved negative, said Dan Osipow, a spokesman for the San Francisco-based sports marketing firm Disson Furst and Partners. "He was not hurt seriously, but was bruised and banged up pretty good," Osipow said Wednesday. The 28-year-old Texan was recuperating at home in Nice. Another member of Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service team, Tyler Hamilton, scraped his knee and elbow, Osipow said. Armstrong, Hamilton and another teammate, Frankie Andreu, were training on a country road outside Nice when a car coming in the opposite direction missed a turn and ran straight into them, Osipow said. Andreu was able to avoid the car and did not crash. Osipow said the crash would not deter their Olympic training. Armstrong will not leave for Australia until mid-September, said Colleen Capasso, an assistant to Armstrong's agent, Bill Stapleton, in Austin, Texas.
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