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How Lance Does It

The Lance Armstrong Performance Program: Seven Weeks to the Perfect Ride

Lance Armstrong's War: One Man's Battle Against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France

Every Second Counts

Live Strong: Inspirational Stories from Cancer Survivors-from Diagnosis to Treatment and Beyond

Inside the Postal Bus: My Ride with Lance Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Cycling Team

Sports Illustrated Lance Armstrong 2005 Career Commemorative Edition Magazine

The Official Tour De France: 1903-2004

 


Lance Armstrong
Quotes by Lance Armstrong
Lance's Blog

From Wikipedia
Lance Armstrong (born Lance Edward Gunderson on September 18, 1971 in Plano, Texas) is a retired American professional road racing cyclist. He attended Clark High School while he lived in Plano. He won the Tour de France, cycling's most prestigious race, a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005. In doing so, he beat the previous record of five consecutive wins, held by Miguel Indurain and five non consecutive wins shared by Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx and Jacques Anquetil. This feat was accomplished several years after brain and testicular surgery, and extensive chemotherapy in 1996, to treat testicular cancer that had metastasized to his brain and lungs. Armstrong has been dogged throughout his career by doping allegations, which he has consistently denied.
In 1999, he was named as ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year. In 2002, Sports Illustrated magazine named him Sportsman of the Year. He was also named Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, received ESPN's ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, and won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award in 2003. Armstrong retired from racing on July 24, 2005, at the end of the 2005 Tour de France.
His athletic success and his dramatic recovery from cancer inspired Armstrong to commemorate his accomplishments in conjunction with Nike through the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a charity founded in 1997. The Foundation's yellow rubber "Livestrong" wristbands, first launched in 2004, have been a major success, netting the Foundation tens of millions of dollars in the fight against cancer, while helping Armstrong become a major player in the nonprofit sector.(more)


Books by Lance Armstrong

It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

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Videos on Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong Sestriere Climb 1999

Lance Armstrong Alpe D'Huez 2001

Lance Armstrong Foundation Manifesto

Lance Armstrong ESPY Monologue

Charlie Rose - Lance Armstrong


At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized.


Articles and Links on Lance Armstrong

Official Web site

Atheist Pin-Ups: Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong, American Atheist Athlete
No prayers, no lucky charms, no divine intervention at all. Lance Armstrong believes in himself, not in the supernatural. He believes in training, focus, and determination. He believes in surgery, chemotherapy, and medicine. He does not believe in gods.

Lance Armstrong and God
One of the most recognizable athletes in the world today is Lance Armstrong. Winner of an unprecedented (and unlikely to be matched) seven Tour de France races and survivor of cancer, Lance Armstrong is a powerful example of what a human being can do when they dedicate themselves to a cause. Moreover, he is an example that it can all be done without religion and without gods.

Lance Armstrong: Wonder on two wheels
by Greg Kieller

Lance Armstrong Foundation Funds Project to Safeguard Fertility of Young Cancer Patients

Lance Armstrong In Toronto For Cancer Fundraiser

Lance Armstrong: Athlete Bio

The Legend of Lance: an Armstrong retrospective
He's gone but not forgotten. After winning an unprecedented seventh straight Tour de France title, Lance Armstrong can lay claim to the title of greatest Tour de France rider in the history of cycling. It's a title not likely to be challenged for many years, and Cyclingnews' European Editor, Tim Maloney, takes a look at what makes Armstrong great.

Fighting cancer is new mission for Armstrong


Lance Armstrong Interviews

Breaking Away
As he rolls for number seven, wrap your mind around the life and legacy and farewell Tour de France of Lance Armstrong—hero, dad, six-time King of the World, rock-star arm candy, and (sometime after '06) the next! governor! of Texas!
by Hal Espen

10 Questions For Lance Armstrong
“I don't have anything against organized religion per se. We all need something in our lives. I personally just have not accepted that belief. But I'm one of the few. ”

A Legend? I Would Rather be Remembered as a Dad
by Alastair Campbell
Armstrong is deeply suspicious of organised religion.



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