Who is Lance Armstrong?

Lance Armstrong was born on September 18, 1971. Lance Armstrong turned professional in 1992 with the Motorola Cycling Team. He won 10 one-day events and stage races in 1993 but his crowning glory was the victory in the World Road Race Championship held in Norway. He touched great heights over the next few years, winning the Thrift Drug Classic in 1994, the Clásica de San Sebastián in 1995, and Tour DuPont in 1995 and 1996, among other victories. In 1996, he became the first American to win the La Flèche Wallonne and finished 6th in the time trial in the 1996 Olympic Games. Lance Armstrong had been facing doping allegations ever since winning the 1999 Tour de France. For several years he kept denying the charges. After vehemently denying the allegations for years, he finally admitted in 2013, during a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey, that some of the allegations were true. Once a celebrated hero, he fell from glory and was stripped of all of his achievements after 1998, including his seven Tour de France titles. He was also stripped off his Olympic Bronze Medal, which he won at the 2000 Sydney Games, by the International Olympic Committee, in 2013.

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