Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong
Lance Edward Armstrongis an American former professional road racing cyclist. He is the 1993 Elite Men's Road Race World Champion, and he had won the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of his Tour de France victories in 2012 after a protracted doping scandal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCyclist
Date of Birth18 September 1971
CityPlano, TX
CountryUnited States of America
hard-work riding-your-bike answers
The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?
sports world sophisticated
Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.
years careers competition
Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.
stupid thinking years
I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in 50 years, I don't think it sits empty in 50 years. Maybe somebody else's name is there. But you can't leave it empty.
sorry dollars lost
Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.
athlete years drug
I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.
thinking racing take-me-back
If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.
punishment lines way
My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.
men enough enough-is-enough
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
giving-up cancer fighting
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.
mother do-it-yourself ifs
My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.
bullying thinking dishonesty
There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.
weather oregon path
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
team men doctors
The team wasn't just riders. It was the mechanics, masseurs, chefs, soigneurs, and doctors. But the most important man on the team may have been the chiropractor.