Lance Armstrong- It's not about the bike

Lance had been a champion ever since he was a little boy, smoking the competition in every event he raced. His mom encouraged his cycling and did anything to help him. Lance and his mother are very close and would do anything to help each other. When Lance was a little boy he would ride his bike everywhere, no matter how far the distance was. That tells you how much of a fan he was of cycling. At the age of 13, Lance was earning $20,000 a year from winning races and from his sponsors. Lance put that money towards helping his mom with anything she needed; he would also use that money for new bikes and parts.

Lance had two fathers when he was younger. One was his birth father that left him when he was born. His second father was Ter

In October of 1995 Lance was diagnosed with cancer. He was devastated. All he could think about was if he was going to die. He finally got his act together and started trying to beat cancer. He researched everything about cancer and how to beat it. He tried everything that he read about. The doctors didn't think Lance had a great chance of survical, that's how bad he was. He started his chemotherapy treatments, which was the worst part of his cancer treatment. He had to do four cycles of chemo. When he got to the third and fourth cycles all he did was eat sleep and throw up. He had no energy and barely enough energy to talk. After he was done with chemo, the doctors started to see Lance get better. Lance was finally starting to beat the cancer.

After Lance was cured from cancer he started training on his bike again. It was like starting all over again because the chemo treatments drained all his energy. Nobody thought Lance would get back on his bike after being diagnosed with cancer. Lance entered a race in France and the weather was horrible, Lance hated racing in bad weather. It was raining and the wind was blowing really hard. Lance raced about half of the race until he couldn't take it anymore. He quit the race. Lance thought he didn't have "it" anymore and said he would never get on a bike again. He went to a press conference and told everyone he was done with cycling. Later, one of his buddies tried to tell him not to quit and told him that he still had a chance to come back because nobody in the states saw the press conference.

Lance thought about it a lot and finally got back on his bike and trained harder than ever before. There was a United Sa

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