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
happens plays press stuff time watch
I just have to watch what happens in the press and see how it plays out. You know, it's always interesting reading; you just watch that stuff and never know how it's going to play out. It's not the first time it's happened.
adjusted finally jet morning seemed sore throat trip woke worse
I had finally adjusted to the jet lag of the trip but woke up this morning with a sore throat that seemed to get worse all day,
bike bloody came clothes coolest hour later luke quit
Then the first day I put the bike clothes back on, Luke was like, 'What are you doing? I thought you quit your job.' Then I came back an hour later all bloody and he thought that was the coolest thing.
punishment lines way
My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.
hilarious cheer acceptance
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
mistake decision reason
That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.
mistake evil toxic
We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil.
nice one-day three
There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like.
ironic want used
It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.
antidote
Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
relationship
Where to start? ... This has been a long, love-hate relationship between myself and the French.
basis negative people positive spend time traveling
I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.
future plan
We plan on having a long future together.
cycling fact france harder naturally process toughest twenty won
The fact is that cycling in France is in the process of going through one of its toughest periods, ... They haven't won for twenty years now so naturally it's harder for them to accept.