2005 Tour de France

Lance Armstrong was the greatest cyclist of all time that is until he was stripped from all his winnings. Armstrong won Tour de France for seven consecutive years. First winning the competition in 1999 and ending his streak in 2005. Armstrong became a major sports figure for not only winning Tour de France, but also winning his fight against cancer. He seemed like the ideal athlete, humble, caring, and compassionate. Armstrong also founded his own organization for the battle against cancer, currently

world, but shortly after, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and retires from cycling until 1997, when he marks his return by winning the sprint 56 kilometer Criterium in Austin. In 1999 he wins his first of 7 tour de France races. In 2005, after he has won his seventh tour de France, Lance Armstrong announces that he is retiring professional cycling. In June,

Doping has been present in the Tour de France cycling races since 1903. Doping is when a drug is taken by an athlete to improve his or her performance. In the beginning, Tour cyclists would ingest alcohol, ether, and other addicting substances, to dull the pain in endurance cycling competitions. Later on, riders began using substances and drugs to improve their performance and endurance, rather than diminishing the pain. Soon the government and other people began to notice these practices, so

the United States and World Cycling Champion in 1933. He won the Clásica de San Sebastián in 1995 and the La Flèche Wallonne in1996. In October of 1996 he was diagnosed with brain lung and testicular cancer. Lance also won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times between 1999 and 2005. Armstrong decided to retire in 2005. In 2012 the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) stripped him of his seven Tour de France

Mr. Lance Armstrong a seven-consecutive time winner, between 1999-2005, of the Tour de France cycling tournament which is one of the most grueling endurance race. What brought on all the media attention on Mr. Armstrong was the fact that he accomplished this amazing feat after recovery from advance stage of testicular cancer. In 2012, Mr. Armstrong was stripped of his titles for testing positive for performance enhanced drugs which he admittedly used throughout his career to achieve victory. Besides

“The athletic and personal record of professional cyclist Lance Armstrong has made him an icon in modern-day sports. He won the tour de France a record seven consecutive times between 1999 and 2005” (Levinthal, C. 2014). Should sport authorities allow the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PED) in all professional sport? It is not unfair that one person won the tour de France seven consecutive times by doping? What about other participants? Personally, I believe that sport authorities should not allow

Throughout the many decades of professional sports being around, there has been many great athletes to whom thousands of people look up to who have been accused of using performance enhancing drugs. For instance, there has been many professional athletes who have ruined up their careers by using PEDs such as: Ben Johnson, Lance Armstrong, and Barry Bonds, just to name a few. (Timeline.com) But, that’s not the point that I’m trying to make here. My point is that these athletes were striped of their

who invited Lance to go to Europe; it was then that his career as a professional cyclist began. By 1996, Lance became the world's top-ranked cyclist winning ten titles in every race from San Sebastián to the Tour Du Pont. At his best, Lance was on his way towards success in the Tour de France, when he received some distressing news; he had cancer. "I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words You have cancer." (73). On October 2, 1996, Lance Armstrong received terrible news which stated

for his Tour de France competitions; however, Armstrong founded a charity that not only promoted cancer awareness and research, but also early detection of cancer, using his survivorship as an example of courage to all fighting any type or severity of cancer. The Lance Armstrong foundation, which eventually became known as “Livestrong,” had a tremendous impact on people fighting cancer,

Intro: In my issues analysis I will be talking about the issue of athletes using drugs in sport to enhance their performance. In my first paragraph I will be talking about the different types of drugs used in sport, how drugs effect the body and the side effects of the drugs. In my second paragraph I will be talking about how the performance enhancing drugs effect the performance of an athlete and why they do/ use the. In my 3rd paragraph I will be talking about the negative and positive effects