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Lance Armstrong Research Paper

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Many people may know him, many people could describe him as Lance Armstrong, the winner of the Tour De France competition. As many people might know he lived to gain his name. As a child he was superb in football, swimming, and running. But as many people might know he really shined in his cycling ability. Soon Lance hit the road and was sent for his biking skills in the U.S.A Olympic team but he did not really earn his fame until he won the most cutthroat competition race in the world of cycling the Tour De France. That made him a VIP. For people who don’t know the Tour De France is a race that is a tiring and extremely demanding race that last 3 weeks and stretches more than 2,000 miles of some very mountainous area. After people heard about Armstrong …show more content…

Soon franchise and corporations like Nike were sponsoring him for lot of money. Lance Armstrong wanted to do some good to people who have cancer and decided that he would start an organization named Livestrong which raised more than 500 million dollars. People who have been reading this right now might think he was the best thing out there, but now you are wrong he is a fraud he used PEDs to make his body leaner and stronger so he could win the race. That was against the rules of cycling. During Armstrong years of doping he was an invisible force. People were amazed because of his cycling skills and stood by his side when others thought and accused of him doping. Armstrong would fight back with furious denials. But even with all these accusations Lance still doped he asked his helpers to hide the PED’s in his lunch bag and hid them inside of his hotel room he was staying at. Once the race was about to start Lance asked the trainer to fetch them and inset the LED’s into his arm. If a drug tester came to check on him he would drop out of the race. He also told his team of cyclist to dope and if they were to not to dope they were kicked of the

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