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Lance Armstrong
American cyclist (born )
For the Australian politician, see Lance Armstrong (politician).
Lance Edward Armstrong (néGunderson; born September 18, )[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 to , but was stripped of his titles in after an investigation into doping allegations, called the Lance Armstrong doping case, found that Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs over his career. As a result, Armstrong is currently banned for life from all sanctioned bicycling events.[5]
At age 16, Armstrong began competing as a triathlete and was a national sprint-course triathlon champion in and In , he began his career as a professional cyclist with the Motorola team. Armstrong had success between and with the World Championship in , the Clásica de San Sebastián in , Tour DuPont in and , and a handful of stage victories in Europe
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Last week, just before the news broke that Lance Armstrong had decided to walk away from his battle with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and accept the likely loss of seven Tour de France titles, Betsy Andreu gave an interview to Bill Strickland, an editor-at-large for Bicycling magazine who has written frequently about the allegations that Armstrong doped. Betsy, the wife of one-time Armstrong teammate Frankie Andreu, has been a public critic of Armstrong’s for a long time, starting back in That year she and Frankie both gave depositions saying that in they heard Armstrong tell doctors in an Indianapolis hospital room that he’d used EPO, human growth hormone, cortisone, steroids, and testosterone.
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Michael Barry (cyclist)
Canadian cyclist (born )
Michael Barry (born 18 December ) is a Canadian author and former professional road racing cyclist. Barry raced for numerous world-class teams with the role of 'domestique'. His greatest anställda successes were placing eighth in the Beijing Olympics' road race, finishing second in the Canadian National Road Race Championships in and , and winning a scen of the Tour of Missouri in He announced his retirement in September , stating that the Tour of Beijing would be his last race.[1] He fryst vatten also an author who has written three books.
Career
[edit]He was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Michael (Mike) Barry Sr., was a racer han själv in England in the s, who until ran a specialty bike store and manufactured a line of hand-made bicycle frames under his own Mariposa[2] brand. As a result, the younger Barry grew up in a cycling-intense environment, and started racing at a very ung age. He has be