Lance Armstrong, wife to divorce ( 2003-09-05 09:11) (Agencies)
Five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and his wife have separated
and will divorce.
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Lance Armstrong, wife Kristin and their son
celebrate. | Armstrong and his wife,
Kristin, separated two weeks ago, soon after moving back to Austin from Girona,
Spain. The couple is currently working on reaching a divorce settlement, while
maintaining separate homes in Austin.
"The craziest thing is, we're closer now and better friends than ever
before," Lance Armstrong said the Austin American-Statesman in Thursday's
editions. "We're truly committed to maintaining a good relationship, but not a
marriage."
Lance Armstrong overcame cancer on his way to five Tour wins. When he won his
fifth straight Tour in July he tied the record held by Spain's Miguel Indurain.
"They tried, over the whole summer period, to reconcile," Jogi Muller, a
spokesman for Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service team, told The Associated Press.
"But somehow, now in the month after the Tour, it just didn't work out. They
tried probably for the children, for themselves."
Muller said that the couple had originally planned to stay in Europe through
mid-September, but decided to return home early.
The couple, who have been married for five years and have three children,
announced in February that they had been separated for a month. They later
reconciled.
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