Sacramento (California, US), Feb. 19 : Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong''s time-trial bike that was stolen from the Team Astana truck before the first stage of the Tour of California has been found.

Police said a local resident brought the custom bike, worth about 10,000 dollars, to a police station in the city of Sacramento on Wednesday.

Police said the investigation of the theft is continuing, and added that they will return the bicycle to Armstrong, who is competing in the Tour of California.

Washington - Lance Armstrong's bicycle was stolen just hours after he rode it in a California race, but the US cycling legend was confident of getting it back - there's only one like it in the world.

Armstrong is racing in the nine-day California Amgen Tour, which started Saturday. His bicycle was stolen, along with three others from the Astana team truck.

Sacremento (California, US), Feb. 16 : Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has revealed that someone stole his 10,000-dollar one-of-a-kind bicycle from his team''''''''s van, which had been parked in downtown Sacramento on Saturday night.

Sacramento authorities said Sunday afternoon that the theft of Armstrong''''''''s bike and three others in the truck had the Police Department''''''''s full attention.

Adelaide, Australia - Lance Armstrong has a lot to be immodest about: champion triathlete in his schooldays, world road racing champion at 21, seven Tour de France victories before retiring in 2005 and, most amazing of all, surviving cancer surgery in 1996 that doctors thought would kill him.

Yet modesty was the great man's hallmark in his comeback appearance in Australia's Tour Down Under.

Out of yellow, the 37-year-old Texan was surprisingly mellow, surprisingly accessible, and surprisingly candid.

Sydney  - Cycling great Lance Armstrong was on the pace Wednesday as Australia's Tour Down Under hit the Adelaide hills.

The 145-kilometre second stage winds up with three hilly 20-kilometre circuits and the 37-year-old Texan showed he was in his element as the gradients got steeper.

It's Armstrong's first stage race since announcing in September his three-year furlough was over and he would come back and try for an eighth Tour de France victory.

Adelaide, Australia  - Cycling legend Lance Armstrong looked comfortable Tuesday in his first stage race since the last of his seven Tour de France victories in 2005.

The 37-year-old Texan, out of retirement and at the head of the Astana Team, finished safely in the bunch in the first stage of Australia's Tour Down Under in the south-coast city of Adelaide,

German Andre Greipel, last year's winner of the six-day event, won a sprint finish ahead of Australians Stuart O'Grady and Baden Cooke.