Lance ArmstrongEssay Preview: Lance ArmstrongReport this essayLance Armstrong was born September 18, 1971 to a teenage mother. Athletic from the start, Lance competed in a number of triathlons and became a professional athlete by the age of 16. Eventually, his love of cycling became his main athletic focus and a phenomenon was born. After competing in the 1992 Olympic games, Lance entered the world of professional cycling, entering his first Tour de France in 1995. At the top of his game and with his mother by his side every step of the way, Lance seemed to have it all. Unfortunately, in October of 1996, everything changed. Suffering from chronic pain, Lance was diagnosed with testicular cancer that would eventually spread to his lungs and brain. With chances of recovery less than 50%, Lance began a course of treatment that would include two surgeries and chemotherapy. With time, the treatment began to work and Lance was on his way to a full recovery.
Lance Armstrong to Return to the Tour of California, 1995: “I’m excited to announce that Lance Armstrong will return to the Tour of San Francisco. This will be to take me to my family again, a wonderful year where I was my age and with my family, of course my father. So I know there are a lot of people out there who would have loved to see him or would love him back and would have been very sad not to see him back, but this will also be another amazing year for me and for my family.” – Lance Armstrong
On a Tour: “It’ll be a very long year of winning over young women, men and people who want to be on the Tour. And I hope you feel the same.” – Lenny Kravitz
On the Tour: “I couldn’t give this an exact number. I think it would range from 1,700 to 2,000, a good number of people will love seeing the Tour. But I do want people to be involved in the Tour.” – Lance Armstrong on the ‘progressive’ Tour of California
On the Tour: “It’s nice that it can be a more relaxed experience, from a very normal point of view.” – Lance Armstrong on the stage finale
On stage to stage finish: “I’m proud to win that stage. I think it was amazing. I think it was a very good finish. That’s one of the things that I love most about the Tour race. From a very difficult distance it’s an extreme climb.” – Lance Armstrong in a video shot on a Tour to be filmed on June 12, 2015.
On the Tour Tour: “One thing that I had an immediate concern about and that really touched me. It was the fact that most of the riders would have never been able to make it on the Tour for so long and it was very much like that for me on my family. I was in awe and I was sure that that kind of experience could be the one for me and everybody who went on the Tour for so long to get where we were going. After my surgery this year we weren’t able to get to know each other in the same way we did. I just couldn’t talk to anyone about the Tour. The next year we got to know each other and we felt we would never get that close to being reunited. It really felt like we were on one big big stage. And in the next four days I was going to come home and I wanted to show everyone the tour, like what was going to happen in the following four days. We knew the process would be pretty long before we would feel we’d come home and we didn’t necessarily want to but at the same time there was no guarantee of that and everyone was just just excited that they were heading home and happy.” – Lance Armstrong and Lenny Kravitz in the video shot during the Tour finish in Los Angeles, CA.
On his ‘good race’: “The tour is a very important event. No race will ever know every story. I’m really disappointed that there aren’t more people in this race coming in and hoping somebody gets that chance, but we did a great job. We did a good job of talking every part of it. We knew what it’s like in your home city and where you live. I guess it would be unfair on everybody to underestimate the level of talent in this league, I think there are some great athletes out there and I think I got the best-looking record in the Tour of California. We had a lot of good races.
“And it wasn’t in my plan on what to make of this. It was the preparation stage all together, this time to be at the top of our races. I wanted to
Lance Armstrong to Return to the Tour of California, 1995: “I’m excited to announce that Lance Armstrong will return to the Tour of San Francisco. This will be to take me to my family again, a wonderful year where I was my age and with my family, of course my father. So I know there are a lot of people out there who would have loved to see him or would love him back and would have been very sad not to see him back, but this will also be another amazing year for me and for my family.” – Lance Armstrong
On a Tour: “It’ll be a very long year of winning over young women, men and people who want to be on the Tour. And I hope you feel the same.” – Lenny Kravitz
On the Tour: “I couldn’t give this an exact number. I think it would range from 1,700 to 2,000, a good number of people will love seeing the Tour. But I do want people to be involved in the Tour.” – Lance Armstrong on the ‘progressive’ Tour of California
On the Tour: “It’s nice that it can be a more relaxed experience, from a very normal point of view.” – Lance Armstrong on the stage finale
On stage to stage finish: “I’m proud to win that stage. I think it was amazing. I think it was a very good finish. That’s one of the things that I love most about the Tour race. From a very difficult distance it’s an extreme climb.” – Lance Armstrong in a video shot on a Tour to be filmed on June 12, 2015.
On the Tour Tour: “One thing that I had an immediate concern about and that really touched me. It was the fact that most of the riders would have never been able to make it on the Tour for so long and it was very much like that for me on my family. I was in awe and I was sure that that kind of experience could be the one for me and everybody who went on the Tour for so long to get where we were going. After my surgery this year we weren’t able to get to know each other in the same way we did. I just couldn’t talk to anyone about the Tour. The next year we got to know each other and we felt we would never get that close to being reunited. It really felt like we were on one big big stage. And in the next four days I was going to come home and I wanted to show everyone the tour, like what was going to happen in the following four days. We knew the process would be pretty long before we would feel we’d come home and we didn’t necessarily want to but at the same time there was no guarantee of that and everyone was just just excited that they were heading home and happy.” – Lance Armstrong and Lenny Kravitz in the video shot during the Tour finish in Los Angeles, CA.
On his ‘good race’: “The tour is a very important event. No race will ever know every story. I’m really disappointed that there aren’t more people in this race coming in and hoping somebody gets that chance, but we did a great job. We did a good job of talking every part of it. We knew what it’s like in your home city and where you live. I guess it would be unfair on everybody to underestimate the level of talent in this league, I think there are some great athletes out there and I think I got the best-looking record in the Tour of California. We had a lot of good races.
“And it wasn’t in my plan on what to make of this. It was the preparation stage all together, this time to be at the top of our races. I wanted to
This didnt happen overnight. The chemotherapy took a toll on Lances body and he was left feeling weak and fragile. Remarkably, though, just five months after his initial diagnoses, Lance was back on a bike rebuilding the strength he had lost. Not only did the cancer take its toll on Lance physically, but the emotional impact was traumatic as well. Nothing makes you stand up and take stock of your life like a cancer diagnoses. Deciding that he was in a unique position to do something positive with his life and his experience, he founded The Lance Armstrong Foundation as a foundation for cancer research and support program to other patients suffering from cancer as he had. With his stand up and take charge of your life attitude, Lance has inspired thousands of cancer patients just like him to fight the fight of their lives with power and strength. With the Livestrong wristbands on the arms of everyone from celebrities to the milkman, the foundation has currently raised more than 13 million dollars for cancer research.
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