He's in Adelaide, he's fit and one of the biggest comebacks in sporting history is upon us.
But what will cycling legend and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong produce during the Tour Down Under?
Two men well qualified to comment on the seven-time Tour de France champion are the only Australians who were Armstrong's team-mates after his comeback from cancer.
Patrick Jonker rode with Armstrong in 2000, while Matt White was a team-mate from 2001-03.
While neither rode with Armstrong during his Tour de France triumphs, they came to know the Texan well and have stayed in touch with him since their own retirements from professional cycling.
Jonker and White will see Armstrong's first comeback race up close - Jonker as one of the support staff for the UniSA team and White as director for the American Garmin-Slipstream outfit.
Armstrong has said he will not win his first professional race in three years and he would have raised eyebrows had he suggested otherwise.
Still, the 37-year-old built his 1999-2005 Tour de France triumphs on the back of an iron will, exceptional physiology, meticulous planning, a solid ego and a well-known mean streak.
In other words, Armstrong is not in Adelaide to make a fool of himself.
He also stressed that the main point of his comeback is to publicise the global fight against cancer.
Armstrong might be 37, but he lacks nothing for motivation.
While fans expecting continuous Lance action during the Tour will be disappointed, the American will want to make a statement.
Jonker said on one of the key climbs, Armstrong would unleash one of his trademark attacks.
"What he will do is up one of the climbs, he'll show himself, he'll hurt himself and give it 100 per cent - that's just the way he is, isn't he?" Jonker said.
"He'll `hide' for the first three days, I presume - people will ask `well, what is he doing, he's not doing anything?'
"The last few days, when he can see the finish is near, he'll stick his head out and have a go."
Stage five at Wilunga, on the second-last day, is always crucial to the overall outcome of the race.
It features the sharp ascent up Willunga Hill and as part of an effort to make the Tour harder, the field will go up it twice for the first time.
This would be a perfect opportunity for Armstrong to make a move.
White noted stage two, from Hahndorf to Stirling in the Adelaide Hills, might also tempt Armstrong.
"He's not going to leave the Tour Down Under without a bit of a show of what he's got in his legs," White said.
"He's going to light it up, alright - the Willunga climb and the Stirling stage, it's nothing (for him).
"He's going to blast up there, for sure."
White said Armstrong is using the Tour to give his body the initial shock of a return to racing, ahead of next month's Tour of California.
That is obviously a much bigger objective for the American.
Armstrong also plans to compete at the Giro d'Italia in May, followed by July's Tour de France.
Race director Mike Turtur had asked Jonker since the Tour Down Under started in 1999 to keep prodding Armstrong about possibly coming to Adelaide.
"If Lance wasn't making a comeback, he probably would never have come here, it's just that all the moons aligned and he needed this to get some race conditioning before the season starts," Jonker said.
"It probably has more to do with luck - let's face it, every organiser in the world would pay anything to have him."
