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
relationship
Where to start? ... This has been a long, love-hate relationship between myself and the French.
age college ride setting
We started out at a very young age setting goals, ... Lance wasn't a follower, he was a leader. All his friends went off to college and Lance said all he wanted to do was ride his bike.
basically city parties saying thank
We've always had parties or celebrations on that day. It was just a way to do something for a city that has done a lot of things for me. We're basically saying thank you for all the support.
announce chance defend french guy lab open positive samples trust
What else can it be? ... Do you think I'm going to trust some guy in a French lab to open my samples and say they're positive and announce that to the world and not give me the chance to defend myself? That's ludicrous. There is no way you can do that.
absolutely gave great impressed kid lift team word
What's so great about the kid is that he absolutely doesn't know the word quit. He gave us a real lift today, and you had to be impressed with how our team set him up at the end.
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.
busy defied lives people separate
We're two people with separate busy lives and we've defied the odds,
good ready regroup rest
We were better, ... That's good going into the rest day: regroup and get ready for the big climbs.
days few mountains start
We'll start to see the start of the real race. There are a few days that are not so selective, but then we have the mountains and the start of the real Tour.
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.