Hold the front page! Lance Armstrong flies in to Paris

Then he flies out again…

On a short stopover between flights he insists to Samuel Abt of the International Herald Tribune that he is not there to meet Tour organisers ASO "Plenty of time for that next year". Earlier he said that his comments about his fears of riding in France had been blown out of all proportion admitting that "I wasn't that proud of it having to say I'm afraid of the French."

You can read the full story of Lance's brief trip to Paris here