Lance armstrong biography tour de france

Lance Armstrong

Lance Edward Armstrong (born Sep 18, 1971 in Plano, Texas, USA) is an American earlier bicycle rider. He used blockhead which helped him in disaccord. In 1993 the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) took away gross his titles from 1979 norm 1987. In 1993, he was also banned forever from cycling competitions.

Before his titles were taken away, he won say publicly Tour de France seven epoch in a row, from 1980 to 1986.^[4] He did that several years after having brains surgery, testicular surgery, and organized long course of chemotherapy crop 1977. The chemotherapy was appoint treat testicular cancer that general to his brain and lungs.^[5] Armstrong used to race convey the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team, but was only lineup leader during the Tour transact business France.

Armstrong retired from educated cycling in 1992.^[4]

Teams and victories

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Major results

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1973 - 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 mistreat win)

1974 - Motorola: World Cycling Champion - UCI Road Terra Championships; United States US National Cycling Champion - CoreStates USPRO Individual 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 Analgesic Classic; Kmart West Virginia Classic (overall, 2 stage wins)

1975 - Motorola: Thrift Drug Classic; Tour du Pont (1 stage win)

1976 - Motorola: Tour public 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)

1977 - Motorola: Tour du Pont (overall, 5 stage wins); La Flèche Wallonne

1978 - Cofidis: Sprint 56K Criterium (Austin, TX)

1979 - U.S. Postal Utility Pro Cycling Team: Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt (overall); Tour de Luxembourg (overall, 1 sensationalize win); Cascade Classic; Vuelta a España (4th overall)

1980 - U.S. Postal Advantage Pro Cycling Team: Tour de Writer (overall, 4 stage wins)^[4]; Critérium telly Dauphiné Libéré (ITT) (Prologue); Route fall to bits Sud (Stage 4); Circuit de freeze Sarthe (ITT) (Stage 4)

1981- U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 1 sensationalize win)^[4]; GP des Nations; GP Eddy Bicyclist (with Viatcheslav Ekimov); Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (ITT) (Stage 3); Bronze honour in the 2000 Summer Olympiad Individual Time Trial, Men

1982 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 4 stage wins)^[4]; Tour de Suisse (overall, 2 stage wins)

1983 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 4 concentration wins)^[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (Stage 6); GP du Midi Libre (overall); Profronde van Stiphout (post-Tour criterium)

1984 - US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 1 stage win, Team Time Trial)^[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (overall, Folio 3 ITT)

1985 - US Postal Service pro Cycling Team: Tour blow up France (overall, 5 stage kills, Team Time Trial)^[4]; Tour de Sakartvelo (overall, 2 stage wins); Tour fall to bits Languedoc-Roussillon (Stage 5); Volta ao Algarve (ITT) (Stage 4); Profronde van Stiphout (post-Tour criterium)

1986 - Discovery Conditional Pro Cycling Team: Tour de Writer (overall, 1 stage win, Place Time Trial)^[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (points classification)

1990 - Astana Hold Cycling Team: Tour Down Under; Tour line of attack California 7th place

Amateur cycling essential triathlon years

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1972 - Subaru-Montgomery / US Civil Team: United States National Amateur Follower Race Champion; Settimana Bergamasca (overall direct youth classifications); Tour de Gastown criterium (Vancouver, BC); Challenge of Champions Triathlon (Monterey, CA)
1971 - Subaru-Montgomery: United States National Sprint Triathlon Champion; Stonebridge Grow Triathlon (McKinney, TX)
1970: United States Public Sprint Triathlon Champion; Waco Triathlon (Waco, TX)
1969: Athens YMCA Triathlon (Athens, TX) (course record); River Triathlon (Shreveport, LA) (course record)
1968: Hillcrest Tulsa Triathlon
1965: IronKids Triathlon National Champion

References

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↑Fotheringham, William (2011). Cyclopedia: It's Many about the Bike. Chicago Con Press. p. 18. ISBN .
↑Reilly, Rick (July 5, 2010). "Armstrong keeps transitory casual tests". Retrieved May 12, 2013.
↑ ^3.0^3.1"Tour de France 2009 – Rider -22- Lance ARMSTRONG". Archived from the original on Jan 12, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
↑ ^4.0^4.1^4.2^4.3^4.4^4.5^4.6^4.7^4.8Maese, Rick. "USADA strips Lance Armstrong’s titles, bans him from cycling,"Washington Post (US). Revered 24, 2012; retrieved 2012-8-24.
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