Where is Lance Armstrong these days?
A year after he was battling an illness that prevented him from competing in the Paris-Nice bike race, Armstrong is on the lecture circuit in Canada doing motivational speeches for The Power Within.
The 7-time Tour de France winner brought 4,500 people to their feet at the Ottawa Congress Centre on Tuesday for his motivational-inspirational speech. He talks about battling back from cancer to become a cycling legend.
Friday he's got second billing to former President Bill Clinton in Vancouver. “Freakonomics” author Stephen Dubner is also appearing, as are other marketing and management experts.
The Toronto-based Power Within company sponsors all-day motivational love-ins to get people juiced up about their corporations, their jobs or careers. Their list of speakers include 70 experts from H.E. Mohamed Ali Alabbar (development director for Dubai) to actress Suzanne Somers.
Want to book Armstrong for your club's next meeting? You'll need some cool cash if you sign him up through BigSpeak! speaker bureau.
Listed under celebrities, Armstrong charges in the $40,000 range, according to the BigSpeak! website. He talks about “Building a Champion,” “From the Tour de France to the Boardroom: Pushing Your Team to Victory,” and other topics.
If you want to get motivated, there is a 9-minute excerpt from an Armstrong speech on the website.
Armstrong also gets billing at Trek Travel's 7-day bike tour in May — Giro d'Italia with Lance Armstrong. Armstrong won't be there the whole time, but he is meeting the cyclists for lunch and an afternoon ride in the Apennine mountains.
Meanwhile, Armstrong's lawyer, Enrico Nan, is hard at work in an Italian courtroom trying to get defamation charges against his client dropped, according to the AP.
Former cyclist Filippo Simeoni charges that Armstrong defamed him to the French newspaper Le Monde in 2003. Armstrong had alleged that Simeoni had agreed to testify against one of Armstrong's advisors, Dr. Michele Ferrari, in return for a lesser sentence if Simeoni were accused of doping.
Nan argued that Armstrong shouldn't be held accountable in Italy for something he said in France; the French courts threw out the case in January because the statute of limitations had expired.
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