Lance Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist who won the Tour de France seven consecutive times after recovering from testicular cancer, becoming a global symbol of comeback and endurance. In 2012 he was stripped of all his Tour titles and banned from the sport for life after an investigation found he had used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career, a fall that reshaped his public legacy.
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Career HighlightArmstrong won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005 but was stripped of all seven titles in 2012 after a doping investigation, and has been banned for life from sanctioned bicycling events since. 1 Classification
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Did Lance Armstrong lose Olympic results as well as his Tour de France titles?
Yes: the International Olympic Committee disqualified him in 2013.
Yes. Olympedia lists his 2000 Sydney individual time trial among the doping irregularities at the Olympics. It says he was retroactively stripped of all his results from 1998 to 2005 for a multitude of violations and was disqualified by the International Olympic Committee in 2013.
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Lance Edward Armstrong (né Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road racing cyclist.
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September 18, 1971
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is an American former professional road racing cyclist
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Armstrong has been banned for life from all sanctioned bicycling events since 2012, though he retired from professional cycling in 2011.
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Lance Edward Armstrong (né Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road racing cyclist.
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Armstrong began to be accused of doping after winning the 1999 Tour de France, allegations that he denied for more than a decade.
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