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Monday March 23, 2009

Lance Armstrong has been hospitalized after falling during the first stage of a five-day race in Spain.

He may have injured his collarbone.

While riding with the Astana team in the Vuelta of Castilla and Leon race, he fell in a pile-up about 12.5 miles from the stage’s finish on Monday, spokesman Philippe Maertens told the Associated Press.

The seven-time Tour de France champ – who ended a three-year retirement to return to competitive cycling in January – was taken to the hospital by ambulance and is being treated at the Rio Carrion hospital in Palencia.

Armstrong, 37, is currently expecting a child with his girlfriend, Anna Hansen.