One of my favorite athletes and role models is Lance Armstrong...7 time winner of the Tour de France, cancer survivor and founder of the Livestrong Foundation. Along with Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods (and maybe Wayne Gretzky) he is one of only a few athletes that has transcended sports in the past 50 years. Lance is bigger than just cycling...which is even more impressive given the backseat cycling usually takes to football, baseball, basketball and hockey.
Through intense cancer treatments (in the middle of his run of 7 straight TDF titles) and tremendous scrutiny by the international doping community (aka drug testing) Lance has overcome everything and continued to be one of the most influential athletes and spokespeople in the world. Lance has never tested positive on a drug test (despite being tested dozens of times every year for the past 10+ years...he was tested 52 times in 2009 alone). Love him or hate him...Lance Armstrong is a model of consistency and athleticism.
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