Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong
	Armstrong before the 2009 Tour Down Under
Personal information
Full name	Lance Edward Armstrong
Nickname	Le Boss; Big Tex
Born	Lance Edward Gunderson; September 18, 1971 (age 53); Plano, Texas, USA
Height	177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Amateur teams
1990–1991	Subaru–Montgomery
1991	US National Team
Professional teams
1992–1996	Motorola
1997	Cofidis
1998–2005	U.S. Postal Service
2009	Astana
2010–2011	Team RadioShack
Major wins
	Grand Tour Tour de France 2 individual stages (1993, 1995) Stage races Tour de Luxembourg (1998) Tour DuPont (1995, 1996) One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championships (1993) National Road Race Championships (1993) Clásica de San Sebastián (1995) La Flèche Wallonne (1996) Trofeo Laigueglia (1993)
Medal record
Representing United States
Men's Cycling
World Championships
Olympic Games

Lance Edward Armstrong (born September 18, 1971 in Plano, Texas, USA) is an American former bicycle rider. He used drugs which helped him in competition. In 2012 the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) took away all his titles from 1998 to 2006. In 2012, he was also banned forever from cycling competitions.

Before his titles were taken away, he won the Tour de France seven times in a row, from 1999 to 2005.^[4] He did this several years after having brain surgery, testicular surgery, and a long course of chemotherapy in 1996. The chemotherapy was to treat testicular cancer that spread to his brain and lungs.^[5] Armstrong used to race for the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team, but was only team leader during the Tour de France.

Armstrong retired from professional cycling in 2011.^[4]

Teams and victories

1992 - Motorola: Settimana Bergamasca (stage 6); Vuelta a Galicia (Stage 4a); Trittico Premondiale (Stage 2) (or GP Sanson); First Union Grand Prix (Atlanta); Fitchburg-Longsjo Classic (overall, 1 stage win)

1993 - Motorola: World Cycling Champion - UCI Road World Championships; United States US National Cycling Champion - CoreStates USPRO National Road Championships; Tour de France (Stage 8); Tour of America (overall); Trofeo Laigueglia; Tour du Pont (2nd overall, 1 stage win); Tour of Sweden (3rd overall, 1 stage win); Thrift Drug Classic; Kmart West Virginia Classic (overall, 2 stage wins)

1995 - Motorola: Tour de France (Stage 18); Clásica de San Sebastián; Paris-Nice (Stage 5); Tour du Pont (overall, mountains, 3 stage wins); Kmart West Virginia Classic (overall, 2 stage wins); Tour of America (overall)

1998 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt (overall); Tour de Luxembourg (overall, 1 stage win); Cascade Classic; Vuelta a España (4th overall)

1999 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 4 stage wins)^[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (ITT) (Prologue); Route du Sud (Stage 4); Circuit de la Sarthe (ITT) (Stage 4)

2000 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 1 stage win)^[4]; GP des Nations; GP Eddy Merckx (with Viatcheslav Ekimov); Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (ITT) (Stage 3); Bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics Individual Time Trial, Men

2001 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 4 stage wins)^[4]; Tour de Suisse (overall, 2 stage wins)

2002 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 4 stage wins)^[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (Stage 6); GP du Midi Libre (overall); Profronde van Stiphout (post-Tour criterium)

2003 - US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 1 stage win, Team Time Trial)^[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (overall, Stage 3 ITT)

2004 - US Postal Service pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 5 stage wins, Team Time Trial)^[4]; Tour de Georgia (overall, 2 stage wins); Tour du Languedoc-Roussillon (Stage 5); Volta ao Algarve (ITT) (Stage 4); Profronde van Stiphout (post-Tour criterium)

2005 - Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 1 stage win, Team Time Trial)^[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (points classification)

2009 - Astana Prop Cycling Team: Tour Down Under; Tour of California 7th place

1991 - Subaru-Montgomery / US National Team: United States National Amateur Road Race Champion; Settimana Bergamasca (overall and youth classifications); Tour de Gastown criterium (Vancouver, BC); Challenge of Champions Triathlon (Monterey, CA)
1990 - Subaru-Montgomery: United States National Sprint Triathlon Champion; Stonebridge Ranch Triathlon (McKinney, TX)
1989: United States National Sprint Triathlon Champion; Waco Triathlon (Waco, TX)
1988: Athens YMCA Triathlon (Athens, TX) (course record); River Triathlon (Shreveport, LA) (course record)
1987: Hillcrest Tulsa Triathlon
1984: IronKids Triathlon National Champion

↑ Fotheringham, William (2011). Cyclopedia: It's All about the Bike. Chicago Review Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-56976-948-5.
↑ Reilly, Rick (July 5, 2010). "Armstrong keeps passing tests". espn.go.com. Retrieved May 12, 2013.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "Tour de France 2009 – Rider -22- Lance ARMSTRONG". Letour.fr. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 ^4.5 ^4.6 ^4.7 ^4.8 Maese, Rick. "USADA strips Lance Armstrong’s titles, bans him from cycling," Washington Post (US). August 24, 2012; retrieved 2012-8-24.
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