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Lance Armstrong

"Basically, I can endure more physical stress than most people can, and i dont get as tired while im doing it. So i figure maybe that helped me live. I was lucky - I was born with an above-average capacity for breathing. But even so, I was in a desperate, sick fog much of the time." (4)
 * Bike and Body**

[] Here is an article about Lance Armstrong and his enhanced body strutcure.

“There was a science to winning. The spectator rarely sees the technical side of cycling, but behind the gorgeous rainbow blur of the peloton is the more boring reality that road racing is a carefully calibrated thing and often a race is won by a mere fraction of acceleration that was generated in a performance lab or wind tunnel or a velodrome long before the race ever started. Cyclists are computer slaves; we hover over precise calculations of cadence, efficiency, force, and wattage. I was constantly sitting on a stationary bike with electrodes all over my body, looking for different position on the bike that might gain mere second or a piece of equipment that might be a little bit more aerodynamic.” (63)

This statement shows the real life he lived on his bike. It informs the reader about the details of cycling helping us as readers understand that it is not simply who rides the hardest and fastest but who thinks the most. It gives us insite to how Lance's mind works when it comes to cycling and how when he was young he failed to understand these things. The quotes come from experience and shows is grow and deveolopment as a person and cyclist

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 “I don’t check my mother at the door,” I said. I grabbed her arm and turned around to leave. “Come on, let’s go,” I said. I had no intention of going anywhere without her. (Pg. 64). This quote explains how close Lance and his mother were. (Nick and Will) From left to right: Lance's wife, Lance, and Lance's mother Lance met his future to be wife through telephone because she represented a corporate client for Ride of the Roses. It was odd how they met. "She felt I wasn't doing enough to please them. One afternoon she got testy with a foundation staffer. //Who is this chick?// I thought, and dialed her number, and as soon as she answered I said, "This is Lance Armstrong, and what do you mean by talking to my staff that way?" I went off, barking at her. On the other end of the reciever, Kik rolled her eyes, thinking, //This guy acts like he is so big-time.// For the next ten minutes we argued back and forth." (Pg. 157) "There were no ordinary cyclists in the World Championships. I would be facing big riders, at their peak, and the favorite was Miguel Indurain, who had just come off of his third victory in the Tour de France. If I wanted to win I'd have to overcome some long historical odds; no 21-years-old had ever won w world title in cycling."(60)
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 * V ictories**

This is a statement from the book that Lance talks about his first world Championship in 1993 and how he would win and being one of the youngest cyclist to ever win a World Championship. "In 1993, Armstrong finished number one in the world, winning 10 one-day events and stage races. He became one of the youngest riders to win the world road race championship, and took his first stage win at the 1993 Tour de France. He also collected the Thrift Drug Triple Crown of Cycling: the Thrift Drug Classic in Pittsburgh, the K-Mart West Virginia Classic, and the CoreStates USPRO national championship in Philadelphia. Thrift Drug said it would award $1 million to a rider winning all three races, a feat previously unachieved. At the USPRO championship, Armstrong sat up on his bicycle on the final lap, took out a comb, combed his hair and smiled for the cameras." []

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