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Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong
It’s Not About The Bike
MY JOURNEY BACK TO LIFE
‘I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at seventy-five miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire: the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.’
‘A slow death is not for me. I don’t do anything slow, not even breathe.’
In 1996 Lance Armstrong, a world class American cyclist, had the world at his feet. He was ranked the number one cyclist in the world when at 24 he was diagnosed with highly developed testicular cancer. The doctors ...
Lance Armstrong
It’s Not About The Bike
MY JOURNEY BACK TO LIFE
‘I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at seventy-five miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire: the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.’
‘A slow death is not for me. I don’t do anything slow, not even breathe.’
In 1996 Lance Armstrong, a world class American cyclist, had the world at his feet. He was ranked the number one cyclist in the world when at 24 he was diagnosed with highly developed testicular cancer. The doctors ...
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