Lance Armstrong, 46, landed in the emergency room in Colorado after taking a nasty spill off his bike on a trail Wednesday. He shared this shot of the damage to his face from the fall
Lance Armstrong was left bloodied and bruised after taking a nasty spill off his bike in Colorado on Wednesday- the crash landed him in the emergency room.
The 46-year-old cyclist shared the nasty looking damage the fall did to his face in a shot on Instagram captioning it, ‘Well, sometimes you’re the hammer and sometimes you’re the nail!’
He said it happened on the Tom Blake trail, one of his favorites.
While keeping a good sense of humor about the accident, he joked that the trail ‘came up and tried to kick’ his a**.
As he gets older, he said he wanted to make sure he was okay so he went to the ER since he his his head pretty badly in the spill off his bike.
In earlier years he said he would have blown it off and not gotten checked out.
He also shared a small-world story of how he walked into the ER, and realized a man that took he and his friends’ photo on one of the trails- even captioning it ‘some dude at the top of Buttermilk who’s name we didn’t catch. Sorry bro!’ ended up being his doctor at the Aspen Valley Hospital.
Lance won seven Tour-de-France title’s, which were all revoked due to charges of doping in 2012.
He is still banned from sanctioned cycling events by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, but that certainly hasn’t slowed him down.
Lance has been spending time at his home in Colorado biking around with friends and family this summer.

Photo credit: ‘Some dude at the top of Buttermilk who’s name we didn’t catch,’ which happened to be Lance’s emergency room doctor, now appropriately tagged in the shot of the cyclist’s bloodied face photo
He and wife, Anna Hansen, have been enjoying the great outdoors at one of their properties.
The parents to Max and Olivia, also have a home in Austin, Texas.
Lance has three other children, Luke and twin girls Grace and Isabelle, with his first wife Kristin, who divorced in 2003.
Lance previously dated singer and songwriter Alanis Morissette.