Speaking of quiet athletes, Lance Armstrong spoke words, not Twitter

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On the last day of the three-week Giro d’Italia race and after about two weeks of silence (though he faithfully posted Twitter and Facebook thoughts and video), cyclist Lance Armstrong did an actual, speaking with his voice, interview with Universal Sports on Sunday. Universal Sports televised the Giro.

Armstrong, who finished 12th in the Giro d’Italia, began his mainstream media silence after he was an outspoken leader of a partial rider boycott of a stage in Milan. He spoke about his chances at the upcoming Tour de France, about how he is finding that communicating via Twitter and Facebook ‘eliminates the middleman’ in his communication with fans, and admitted he had ‘a moment or two’ last December when he thought it would be easy to win an eighth Tour de France. Not anymore, he said.

-- Diane Pucin