Category: Lance Armstrong Watch
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will have quite a large contingent for his bike ride across Iowa this week, but Matthew McConaughey will not be in the group.
The Texas-born actor is in the pack with Armstrong when it comes to goofing off and doing some light bicycling, but he won't be found on the 477-mile RAGBRAI that starts Sunday.
Armstrong told the Des Moines Register, “He would never ride in a group of people like that. He'd be scared to death. For all you ladies, I hate to break it to you…
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It looks like both Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong will be racing at the Leadville 100 mountain bike race on Aug. 11 afterall.
Rob Lucas at UltraRob Adventures first had the scoop last week, as he pieced together some info about Armstrong riding part of the Leadville course with trainer Chris Carmichael and scheduling a charity event in Colorado Springs — 3 hours away — on Aug. 9 …
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Except for wishing his team well, Lance Armstrong isn't picking anyone to win this year's Tour de France.
In Armstrong first year of retirement in 2006, he picked Germany's Jan Ullrich. Then he switched to Italy's Ivan Basso. Both had dogged him in his previous Tour wins.
Of course, neither Ullrich nor Basso raced in 2006 after the rumored allegations …
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Lance Armstrong is riding the entire RAGBRAI bicycle tour this summer and is making off-the-bike appearances at a special event for youths in Spencer and a concert in Cedar Falls.
After the first stage, which ends Sunday, July 22, in Spencer, Armstrong is scheduled to meet with registered youth participants (under 21) on the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa. He'll answer their questions about his journey through life …
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Memo to the US Anti-Doping Agency: You do not ask someone who has just won the Tour de France to rat out a former teammate who has won it 7 times and whose reputation is up there somewhere next to Mother Theresa.
But, according to Floyd Landis, the USADA lead attorney Travis Tygart approached Landis' attorney Howard Jacobs with such an offer last year.
Landis said Thursday that Tygart had told Jacobs that Landis could walk away from these doping allegations with “the shortest suspension they've ever given an athlete” if Landis could provide information on Lance Armstrong. …
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Next week's LiveStrong Day on Wednesday, May 16, isn't about the bike, it's about cancer.
The Lance Armstrong Foundation says its a day for grassroots advocacy to raise awareness about cancer issues on a local and national level.
In addition to more than 140 events across the US — four in Seattle, for instance — a group of 200 cancer …
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Lance Armstrong, the world's most famous cancer survivor, will help kick off a cancer fund-raiser bicycle ride — Tour of Courage — in Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 21-23.
The seven-time Tour de France champion's visit to Canada comes about a week before he arrives in Portland to attend the LiveStrong Challenge on September 29-30.
Armstrong, who appears in the Discovery Channel's special broadcast “Living with Cancer” at 8 p.m. (ET) later this evening (Sunday), is busy with cancer fund-raisers and awareness events throughout the summer. In addition to events in Calgary, Philadelphia and Austin, he's bicycling in RAGBRAI to help draw attention to cancer as an election issue. ….
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Former pro cyclist and the world's most famous cancer survivor Lance Armstrong will appear on the live Town Hall meeting “Living with Cancer” on the Discovery Channel.
The show, hosted by former ABC Nightlight reporter Ted Koppel, also features presidential candidate spouse Elizabeth Edwards, exec producer Leroy Sievers, and a studio audience comprised of people living with cancer.
The show airs at 8 p.m. (ET), Sunday, May 6, on the Discovery Channel. The live studio audience will meet at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. …
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“(Expletive) Lance Armstrong. I'm just tired of being told who to admire in this country. . . . I'll pick my own heroes, thanks.”
Comedian George Carlin during a routine at the local Civic Center; “Carlin's still vulgar, but endearingly so,” Peoria Journal Star, March 26, 2007.
He's probably making a point about the …
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Lance Armstrong appeared as a guest on The Colbert Report at Comedy Central last night, but didn't get many chances to get an answer out.
One zinger he did deliver came after host Stephen Colbert asked him: “What did it feel like to kick that much French butt?”
“I actually liked it,” Armstrong said, adding, “The honest truth is there aren't any good French riders.” Ouch. …
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