Lance Armstrong raced as part of a team.
The 7-Eleven Cycling Team , later the Motorola Cycling Team , was a professional cycling team founded in the U.S. in 1981 by Jim Ochowicz , a former U.S. Olympic cyclist . Lance Armstrong . Armstrong retired from racing at the end of the 2005 Tour de France , but returned to competitive cycling with the Astana team in January 2009 , finishing third in the 2009 Tour de France later that year . Between 2010 and 2011 , he raced with Team Radio Shack , the UCI ProTeam he helped found . Team RadioShack was a professional road bicycle racing team , with RadioShack as the title sponsor , the creation of which was announced on July 23 , 2009 .