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Lance Edward Armstrong (né Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) [4] is an American former professional road racing cyclist.He achieved international fame for winning the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of his titles in 2012 after an investigation into doping allegations, called the Lance Armstrong doping case, found that Armstrong used ...
Lance Armstrong, the Lance Armstrong doping case, was a major doping investigation that led to retired American road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong being stripped of his seven consecutive Tour de France titles, along with one Olympic medal, and his eventual admission to using performance-enhancing drugs.
Armstrong vehemently denied allegations of using performance enhancing drugs for 13 years, until a confession during a broadcast interview with Oprah Winfrey in January 2013, when he finally admitted to all his cheating in sports, stating, "I view this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times". [2] [3] [4] [5]
Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005 but was stripped of all his titles — including his Olympic medal — after an investigation found that he had ...
The disgraced superstar told the truth about his secret method for evading anti-doping testers during a recent conversation with Bill Maher.
Walsh was vindicated when Armstrong was stripped of all seven of his Tour titles and banned from the sport for life on October 22, 2012. [2] Armstrong's seven Tour wins are told to be his "seven deadly sins". Armstrong confessed to doping in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in January 2013. [3] The 2015 movie The Program is based on the book.
The story of Lance Armstrong is widely known – world-class cyclist contracts cancer, battles back from death's doorstep to recover, then wins the premier cycling event in the world, the arduous ...
The narrative begins from after Armstrong's first Tour de France win in 1999 and continues up until his fifth win in 2003. The authenticity of the tale and Armstrong's anti-doping stance described in the work was challenged by a report from USADA in 2012, [1] and in 2013 Armstrong confessed that he had used doping in that period. [2]