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US guest stars on Arthur. Male Athlete. See all related lists ». Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDb page. Find out more at IMDbPro ». How Much Have You Seen? How much of Lance Armstrong's work have you seen? See more awards ». Armstrong won his second Tour DuPont and had several career victories. He signed a two million dollar contract with the French cycling team, Cofidis. He had a new Porsche and a new home in Austin, Texas. However, during the Tour de France he was forced to drop out after being diagnosed with bronchitis.
He rode for the U. Olympic team in Atlanta, Georgia, but was disappointed with a twelfth-place finish. Shortly after his 25th birthday he began coughing up blood. On October 2, , he was diagnosed with testicular cancer that had spread to his abdomen, lungs, lymph nodes, and brain.
The following day he underwent surgery to remove one of his testicles. Standard treatment for the brain tumors is radiation, but its effects can result in a slight loss of balance. It's slightly riskier, but he had only two tumors and they were in a position where a surgeon could get to them.
Armstrong also chose a non-traditional route for his chemotherapy. The usually prescribed drug, bleomycin, normally produces fewer side effects of nausea and vomiting. However, bleomycin also could slightly diminish lung capacity, so Armstrong was given ifosamide, "taking the short-term discomfort for the long-term gain," said Einhorn. During treatment, especially between rounds of the chemotherapy, Armstrong kept riding his bike as much as he could.
You can go out there with the weight of the world on your shoulders, and after a six-hour ride at a high pain threshold, you feel at peace. While undergoing chemotherapy, Armstrong began talking with doctors about launching a charitable foundation to raise awareness about cancer. He and some cycling friends also came up with the idea of starting a charity bicycle race around Austin, Texas, and decided to call it the Ride for the Roses. The Foundation began to give him a new feeling of purpose.
A month after his chemotherapy treatment ended, while he still had no hair, or even eyebrows, he met Kristin Richard at a press conference announcing the launch of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the Ride for the Roses. She was an account executive for an advertising and public relations firm assigned to help promote the event, and everyone called her Kik pronounced "Keek".
After the first Ride for the Roses was over, they began finding excuses to see one another. I felt he showed me the view from that cliff. That bonds two people. And if you get to come back from that edge, it changes your life. You never want to miss out on anything fun or beautiful or scary again. During the same period, Armstrong was attempting to make a comeback into cycling. His first attempts did not go well. He would tire easily and get depressed. It did not help his morale when he could not find a team to take him on.
His previous contract with Cofidis had been renegotiated while he was undergoing treatment. He was considered a bad public relations risk. He considered himself very lucky when the newly formed United States Postal Service team accepted him.
In , he became determined to overcome the difficulties and get back to riding competitively. By , he decided he was ready to try the Tour de France again. He spent the spring training in Europe through the Alps and the Pyrenees. On September 9, , Armstrong announced that he planned to return to competition and the Tour de France in After the race, Armstrong told reporters that he intended to compete again in , with a new team endorsed by RadioShack.
Slowed by multiple crashes, Armstrong finished 23rd overall in what would be his final Tour de France, and he announced he was retiring for good in February Despite the inspiring narrative of Armstrong's triumph over cancer, not everyone was convinced it was valid. Irish sportswriter David Walsh, for one, became suspicious of Armstrong's behavior and sought to shed light on the rumors of drug use in the sport.
In , he wrote a story linking Armstrong to Italian doctor Michele Ferrari, who was being investigated for supplying performance enhancers to cyclists. Walsh later secured a confession from Armstrong's masseuse, Emma O'Reilly, and laid out his case against the American champion as co-writer of the book L. The plot thickened in , when former U. Postal rider Floyd Landis, who had been stripped of his Tour de France win for drug use, admitted to doping and accused his celebrated teammate of doing the same.
That prompted a federal investigation, and in June the U. S Anti-Doping Agency brought formal charges against Armstrong. The case heated up in July , when some media outlets reported that five of Armstrong's former teammates, George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, David Zabriskie and Christian Vande Velde—all of whom participated in the Tour de France—were planning to testify against Armstrong.
The cycling champion vehemently denied using illegal drugs to boost his performance, and the USADA charges were no exception: He disparaged the new allegations, calling them "baseless. The toll this has taken on my family and my work for our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today—finished with this nonsense.
The following day, on August 24, , the USADA announced that Armstrong would be stripped of his seven Tour titles—as well as other honors he received from to —and banned from cycling for life. The agency concluded in its report that Armstrong had used banned performance-enhancing substances.
On October 10, , the USADA released its evidence against Armstrong, which included documents such as laboratory tests, emails and monetary payments. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team ran the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that the sport had ever seen," Travis Tygart, chief executive of the USADA, said in a statement.
Several former members of Armstrong's cycling team were among those who claimed that Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs and served as a type of a ringleader for the team's doping efforts. According to The New York Times , one teammate told the agency that "Lance called the shots on the team" and "what Lance said went. His attorney, Tim Herman, called the USADA's case "a one-sided hatchet job" featuring "old, disproved, unreliable allegations based largely on axe-grinders, serial perjurers, coerced testimony, sweetheart deals and threat-induced stories," according to USA Today.
The union also banned Armstrong from the sport for life. In January , during a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey , Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career, beginning in the mids. During his interview with Winfrey, Armstrong stated that he took the hormones cortisone, testosterone and erythropoietin also known as EPO , and conducted blood transfusions to boost his oxygen levels. I deserve this," Lance stated during the interview, adding that he took illegal drugs as a professional athlete due to a "ruthless desire to win Of the interview, Winfrey said in a statement, "He did not come clean in the manner I expected.
It was surprising to me. I would say that, for myself, my team, all of us in the room, we were mesmerized by some of his answers. I felt he was thorough. He was serious. He certainly prepared himself for this moment. I would say he met the moment. At the end of it, we both were pretty exhausted. Around the same time that the interview was conducted, it was reported that the U. Department of Justice would join a lawsuit already in place against the cyclist, over his alleged fraud against the government.
Armstrong's attempts to have the lawsuit dismissed were rejected, and in early the case was allowed to proceed to trial. In spring , two weeks before his trial was scheduled to begin, Armstrong agreed to pay the U.
According to his legal team, the settlement ended "all litigation against Armstrong related to his admission" of using performance-enhancing drugs. I rode my heart out for the Postal cycling team, and was always especially proud to wear the red, white and blue eagle on my chest when competing in the Tour de France. Armstrong had little to say about the film, other than criticizing its star for taking performance-enhancing drugs to prepare for the role.
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