Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong
Lance Edward Armstrongis an American former professional road racing cyclist. He is the 1993 Elite Men's Road Race World Champion, and he had won the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of his Tour de France victories in 2012 after a protracted doping scandal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCyclist
Date of Birth18 September 1971
CityPlano, TX
CountryUnited States of America
asking based pleased press seems
Based on the translation I read of the press release, I'm pleased that the UCI seems to be asking many of the right questions.
I'm a little disappointed. I wouldn't say it was great. I wouldn't even say it was good.
attempting discovery folks forward great leading motivated team yellow
I look forward to leading this team and attempting to give the great folks at Discovery a yellow jersey. I'm more motivated than ever.
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I look forward to achieving my goal of a seventh Tour de France (victory),
felt given jersey might today turned
I felt like today might be the day when the jersey would be given away and it turned out it was,
high last quality since strong three weeks
I feel good, I feel strong and I've had a high quality three weeks since my last race,
career happy
I am happy with the way my career went and I am happy with the way it ended.
anyone people questions sick talking tired
I am sick and tired of people talking about doping and I didn't cheat, and I know am clean. I'll take on anyone who questions that.
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But this thing stinks. It's not good for me. And the unfortunate thing is that you potentially dealt with something that you have to face for the rest of your life. And like I said, the protocol wasn't followed and there is no backup sample to confirm what they say is a positive test.
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I did not consume any food, drink or product from any of the hotels for fear of sabotage. The cooler was full of incredibly top-secret and potentially illegal water, cereals, jams, bread, salt, pepper, butter, etc.
biggest expect hamilton lost surprise
For me the biggest surprise was that Ullrich and Hamilton lost time, I didn't expect that,
experts five four gone record
four or five anti-doping experts around the world that have gone on the record and said this is crazy.
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He has the best condition. Tomorrow, he is the favorite. I have insider information,
announce chance defend french guy lab open positive samples trust
What else can it be? ... Do you think I'm going to trust some guy in a French lab to open my samples and say they're positive and announce that to the world and not give me the chance to defend myself? That's ludicrous. There is no way you can do that.