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Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist. He won the Tour de France—cycling's most prestigious race—seven consecutive times, from 1999 to 2005. Previous to this achievement he also survived testicular cancer, a germ cell tumor that metastasized to his brain and lungs in 1996. His cancer treatments included brain and testicular surgery, and extensive chemotherapy.
In 1999, he was named 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. He 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.
Admiring Lance is easy to do. He rises to challanges and deals with the outcomes. Slamming Lance seems to be easy to do as well. That is a shame. We all have things we do that we would rather not; things we have done best left forgotten. I don't really care if Lance did or did not take performance enhancing drugs. He says he didn't and that is good enough for me. When I run or ride and I feel I can't go on I imagine Lance dealing with the situation. He would go on. I go on as well.
He was the brightest Cyclist the Tour ever had. There are still a lot of jealous people trying to take away his name from the Hall of Fame. He has been accused several times of winning the tour on doping, none of them ever proved they were right. Lance Armstrong took all this with a dignity that is only given to really special people.