Lance Armstrong
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"Classic cycle races/One-day races and Classics"

: UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race/World Cycling Champion

: United States National Road Race Championships/US National Cycling Champion (1993)

:Clásica de San Sebastián (1995)

:La Flèche Wallonne (1996)

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"Lance Edward Armstrong" (born September 18, 1971) is a former American professional road bicycle racing/road racing cyclist. Armstrong was classified as having won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times between 1999 and 2005. Subsequently, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) presented its findings and in 2012 the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) disqualified Armstrong from those races for doping offenses, banning Armstrong from competitive cycling for life.

A cancer survivor, Armstrong founded the Livestrong Foundation, originally called the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which provides support for cancer patients.

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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, the day I was diagnosed, ... the day we all sort of look to and mark these milestones by one year, two year, five year, 10 year. Hopefully, I have a 50 year.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

When I got off the bike at the end of the Tour, it was finished.

'Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.'

To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.