Life is no bed of roses, and so it was to be with young Lance. Adversity was a constant companion of the Armstrongs, case in point the time when his dad walked out on him while he was just a tiny tot of age two. Raised by a teenaged mum and a stepfather, Lance had every reason to fail and yet he decided that if life was going to hand him a lemon, he’d make tequila of it! I marveled at Lance as he funnelled his angst into triathlons, but it was soon obvious to all but the blind that he had a mercurial talent for cycling. The Tour de France was to be his calling, destiny and most brutal examination intertwined. Labeled “The Brash Texan”, it was a dark day in 1996 for Lance Armstrong when the doctor declared his grim prognosis: Diagnosed with stage-three testicular cancer that had spread its tentacles to his lungs and brain.
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Source:- IIPM-Editorial, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006
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