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Ben Stiller, who starred in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story with Lance Armstrong, will be interviewed tonight during VERSUS’ Tour de France expanded primetime show, hosted by Bob Roll and Craig Hummer at 8 p.m. ET.

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As the Tour de France kicks off on VERSUS on July 4th at 9:30 am EST, Lance Armstrong will be competing for his 8th title, but he feels his legacy isn’t nearly as important as his new goal – curing cancer.

“You look at 2005 and people start to say ‘What a perfect way to end’ and then rides off into the sunset. From a sports perspective, it puts it out there as potentially damaging, this “legacy”. But I think in start to bring about change to cancer worldwide, then I’m not worried about the other legacy.”

In “Lance Armstrong: The Comeback Story” airing on VERSUS, July 4th at 8:30 am EST, Lance talks in-depth about his passion to find a cure for cancer as the motivation for his return.

“It really is the main motivation to be back doing this. We’re at a point now where we felt that we could take this message and we can effect lives, we can effect change, and ultimately create more survivors around the world.”

Watch a clip from the special below:

Lance Armstrong is a father for the fourth time!

The multiple Tour de France winner’s girlfriend, Anna Hansen, has given birth to the couple’s first child. They have named their new son, Max.

Armstrong twittered the good news to fans.

He wrote on Twitter: “Wassup,world? My name is Max Armstrong and I just arrived. My mommy is healthy and so am I!”

Armstrong added that baby Max weighed in at 7lbs 5oz and is 20 inches long.

Hours after he finished 12th in the Giro d’Italia grand tour in Rome on Sunday, the cyclist posted on Twitter that he was on his way to Colorado to welcome his fourth child.

Already at the airport in Rome,” Armstrong posted on Twitter. “Headed home!! Baby #4 any minute now. CaNot wait!”

Armstrong, a cancer survivor, told Usmagazine.com in December that he and Hansen were expecting.

“Anna and I are thrilled to confirm that we are expecting in June and our families are ecstatic and grateful,” Armstrong told Us at the time. “We are very much looking forward to what 2009 brings on many fronts. We appreciate [the public] respecting our privacy, as we are both eager to celebrate the holidays as a family.”

Armstrong, 37, has three children from a previous marriage. He is father to son Luke, 9, and 11-year-old twins Isabelle and Grace with his ex-wife Kristin Richards. They had the three children using in vitro fertilization with sperm he had banked before undergoing chemotherapy.

Armstrong’s baby with Hansen — whom he has been dating since July after meeting through his charity work — “was conceived naturally,” a Lance Armstrong Foundation spokeswoman said in a statement to the Associated Press.

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Lance Armstrong is blaming the constant tick, tick, ticking of Sheryl Crow’s biological clock as the key factor in their break-up three years ago.

In “Lance,” out in July from Da Capo, the Tour de France legend tells author John Wilcockson that after he and the sexy rocker were engaged in 2005, two weeks before her 44th birthday, their relationship became “kind of a struggle.”

“She wanted marriage, she wanted children; and not that I didn’t want that, but I didn’t want that at that time because I had just gotten out of a marriage, I’d just had kids [Luke, Grace and Bella],” Armstrong, 37, reveals. “Yet we’re up against her biological clock — that pressure is what cracked it.”

The famed cyclist adds that he and Crow went to a counselor in a bid to heal the growing divide, “but really there’s no way to counsel that situation.

“Because if somebody wants a child — man, that’s the greatest gift you can give to a woman — so who are you to stand there and say I don’t want one. So we were at different points in our lives. We were not compatible on that issue.”

Armstrong adds it was a matter of bad timing. “I felt like I wasn’t ready . . . I would have been in the future, but not then.”

In May 2007, Crow — still unmarried and with her options of giving birth to her own child slim — adopted a two-week-old boy she named Wyatt Steven Crow. Mother and child live on a 154-acre farm outside Nashville.

Meanwhile, Armstrong — who then dated Tory Burch, Ashley Olsen, Lisa Shields and Kate Hudson — is ready to be a father again. Last December, he announced that his girlfriend, Anna Hansen, is pregnant. Their baby was conceived naturally, defying doctors’ concerns that Armstrong’s bout with testicular cancer had rendered him sterile. The baby is due next month.

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Lance Armstrong, who broke his right collarbone after falling during the first stage of a five-day race in Spain Monday, wears a sling as he shows viewers an X-ray image of the metal plate and 12 screws that are holding his shattered bone in place. (Watch video above.)

“Initially we thought this was a simple fracture,” the seven-time Tour de France champion, 37, says. “Once we came home, we took additional X-rays, additional CT scans and realized the collarbone was actually in a quite a few pieces.”

He added that there are “a lot of questions” that are left to be answered.

“In almost 20 years of pro-cycling, I’ve very rarely had crashes,” he says on Livestrong.com. “I’ve been very lucky and very blessed when it comes to that. For this to happen now is a new experience for me, so I don’t know how my recovery will go.”

Although doctors say he could be riding within the next week, Armstrong says he will take it day by day and “ultimately get back on the bike.”

The seven-time Tour de France champ, 37, who came out of retirement in July, smashed his clavicle Monday in a pileup with other rides during a race in Spain. The injury creates a big hurdle in his bid to win an eighth Tour de France.

Armstrong — who is expecting a child with his girlfriend, Anna Hansen — ended a three-year retirement to return to competitive cycling in January.

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Kate Hudson couldn’t be more thrilled for former fling Lance Armstrong, who is expecting a child with girlfriend Anna Hansen.

Asked if she’s happy for her ex, she said at Monday’s NYC Bride Wars premiere, “Of course! Oh, yeah!”

Hudson also said her new “I Do!” comedy — co-starring Anne Hathaway — hasn’t made her want to wed again. (She split from ex-husband Chris Robinson in 2006.)

“I’m a girl. I think all girls, deep down, have that fairy tale thing,” she said, adding that she already had her “dream wedding.

“I was so in love. It was such an amazing day — and it should be,” she said. “Relationships and love should be celebrated.”

As for Bride Wars, she said she didn’t draw on any personal experiences from weddings she’s been to.

“If I used some of the stories I had about weddings, this movie would be X-rated!” she joked. “I can’t even get into them!”

When it comes to tying the knot, Hudson said, “people get so stressed out, freaked out. It can really bring out the best — and the worst — of what’s to come.”

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Before deciding whether to come out of retirement and compete in the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong needed to speak to one person in particular: his ex-wife Kristin.

“Quite frankly, if she had said, ‘I don’t support it,’ or ‘I’m not into it,’ I wouldn’t have done it,” Armstrong, 37, told PEOPLE at the Clinton Global Initiative on Wednesday in New York. “But Kristin has been an amazing supporter. Very flexible and just amazing with the kids. I need that from her” to do this.

Then Armstrong broke the news to his 8-year-old son, with some fear that it might leak.

“I said, ‘Luke, don’t tell your sisters,’” Armstrong recalls. “His sisters tell people everything. But I fully expected him to tell them.”

Instead, when he talked to twin 6-year-old daughters Isabelle and Grace, he found out Luke had kept his secret. Now it was the girls’ turn. “I had to tell them, ‘Don’t go to school and tell everybody.’ When it finally came out, they said, ‘Okay, NOW can we tell everybody?’”

Racing for Cancer Awareness
After three years of retirement – it will be four next year – Armstrong will return to the Tour de France as part of an effort to raise cancer awareness.

In mid-July, the Texas-based Livestrong organization agreed to allocate $2 million to fund a small international program.

Armstrong, a cancer survivor who had been riding in four or five charity events a year, “started training more and more seriously,” he says, “and realized, ‘I want to do this again.’ I still love to ride my bike five hours a day, and those things coming together was a perfect storm.”

With friends and family firmly in his corner, Armstrong’s goals are to “change the face of the disease worldwide, to increase funding, increase education, and erase the stigma of the disease in certain cultures.” He also hopes for a big turnout for the Livestrong Global Cancer Summit in Paris at the end of the Tour de France in July.

He adds, “On the racing side, I’m starting with modest expectations.” As long as his other goals are met, he says, “I’ll be content.”

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Professional Cyclist Lance Armstrong holds a press conference during Day 1 of the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting on September 24, 2008 in New York City. Armstrong was speaking on his return to competitive cycling and the work of the Lance Armstrong Foundation in conjunction with the Clinton Global Initiative to fight cancer.

Cycling legend Lance Armstrong has been linked to an array of A-listers like Kate Hudson, Sheryl Crow and designer Tory Burch, but he doesn’t have a type.

“I don’t discriminate — on anything,” he says in the October issue of Men’s Vogue when asked if he prefers blondes.

He then explained that he likes women who are “hotter than doughnut grease.”

The 37-year-old announced Tuesday that he’s returning from retirement with the goal of winning his eighth Tour de France.

In 1996, Armstrong had a 50 percent chance of survival after being diagnosed with testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain.

“With a life-threatening illness, you win and you live on,” he told Men’s Vogue. “You lose and you die. After I gained that perspective, I hated the notion of losing.”

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