...LANCE ARMSTRONG1 On July 24, 2005, Lance Armstrong became the first person ever to win the Tour de France seven times. Armstrong’s unprecedented achievement was all the more remarkable for the fact that in 1996 Armstrong was treated for testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain. Even without cancer, Lance Armstrong was not an obvious candidate for title of the greatest cyclist ever. Despite certain natural advantages – notably a heart 30% larger than normal with an abnormally slow beat rate (32 times per minute while at rest) – Armstrong’s aerobic rate was less than that of cycling greats such as Miguel Indurain and Greg LeMond. For most of his career, Armstrong was not the world’s preeminent cyclist. He won the world championship just once (1993) and his Olympic best was a bronze medal in 2000 Sydney games. Armstrong’s seven-year dominance of the Tour de France resulted from a combination of factors, not least of which was his singleminded focus, not just on cycling, but on a single race. Between his 1999 and 2005 Tour de France victories, Armstrong was overall winner in only five other cycle races. Armstrong raised planning for the Tour to a new level of sophistication. His meticulous preparations included: “. . . computer calculations that balanced my body weight and my equipment weight with the potential velocity of my bike,” and “careful computer graphs of my training rides, calibrating the distances, wattages, and thresholds.” Armstrong abilities were well-suited...
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...students are expected to live up to. Parents of students also expect their children to do well and exceed in school. Student feel they must do well in order to impress and do whatever it takes, including cheating, to get the best grades. Due to the ecomomical collapse our country has faced over the past few years this has caused businesses to be dishonest. An example is of a business that managed people retirement. Many people trusted businesses to handle their retirement only to realize that they had been scammed. Hundreds of people found out that their retirement had been embezzled and they were left with nothing. This financial gain for the company proved to be unworthy and jail time was received. We also see cheating in sports. Lance Amstrong was accused of using steroids for enhancement. This is also see among other athlete’s including wrestling, baseball, basketball, and football. Mandated testing is being mandated to prevent such illegal things from occurring. Relationships also suffer due to cheating. Instead of couples talking things out or getting counseling the resort to finding other people to satisfy their needs and desires instead of talking and working out the problems with the significant others. This is only a temporary...
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...dealing with a fallen hero. When someone who was highly looked up to and respected is found guilty of cheating, feelings run high. My essay is in response to numerous articles on Lance Armstrong’s use of performance enhancing drugs. In January of 2013, in an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance admitted to using performance enhancing drugs. He also admitted to using other illegal methods to win the Tour De France (Stanley). Before his confession he was already stripped of all his medals, won from the Tour De France. He was also banned from competitive professional cycling for life, and was dismissed from his charity organization, Livestrong, founded by him in 1997 (MacLaggan). Who is Lance Armstrong? Lance Armstrong is a well-known biker famous for his major success in the professional cycling world. Lance was born September, 18, 1971. He did his first triathlon at age 16, and joined professional cycling in 1992. He first cycled for the Motorola Professional Cycling Team. In 1996 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer that eventually spread to his lungs and brain. However after intense chemotherapy and other treatment, he was announced cancer free in 1997. Lance was the winner of seven consecutive Tour De France titles. Unfortunately he didn’t win them honestly. How does this affect me? Lance Armstrong was on my very short list of heroes and people I looked up to. I was a strong believer in his philosophy that hard work and dedication makes champions, not just talent...
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...race is changing every year, sometimes the race starts in some northern cities and some border countries as well. There is usually a varied number of team involved in the race from 20 to 22 which has 9 players each in the team. All players are competing toward the great honor of the champion of Tour de France. I just started watching Tour de France last summer by the recommendation of a friend. I saw the great bicycle racer Alberto Contador from Spain became the champion of Tour de France. He is a strong player and my friend told me that he thought Contador was not good any more before the race but he came back to the 1st place again. He said the Spanish players are starting controlling the Tour de France after the great 7-time-champion Lance Armstrong from United States. He was looking forward to seeing a new champion from US soon. American bicycle racers seem to have disadvantage in Tour de France because it’s like an away game for them but a home game for European racers. Tour de France is a wonderful race which brings everyone who loves bicycle race together and enjoys this big...
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...Whooo Hooo! The rumbling cheers from the crowd shook the ground, as Lance pushed his petals with all his might, showing the pulsing veins throughout his body. Then in a flashing second he storms passed the finish line. Lance Armstrong inspires me to keep fighting in life, even when you get knocked down because he was thrown so many obstacles including a devastating case of cancer. But in the end he fought back, got cured, and won multiple Tour de Frances. Lance Armstrong is arguably one of the greatest athletes of all time, he has won the Tour de France seven consecutive times. He was Born on September 18, 1971 in Plano, Texas (he is 44 years old). His father named him after Dallas Cowboy wide receiver, Lance Russell. His career began as a triathlete, as a little kid. But, in high school he started...
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...then husband Eddie Charles Gunderson gave birth to Lance Edward Gunderson. Linda Gayle divorced Eddie Gunderson when Lance was two years old and she later remarried to a man by the name of Keith Armstrong who decided to adopt Lance and take him on as one of his own. Due to this life event Lance changed his name from Gunderson to Armstrong and thus a star was born. Lance took up competitive cycling at the age of thirteen but by the time he hit the age of sixteen he became a triathlete. In 1989 and 1990 Lance was the national sprint-course triathlon champion. During his senior year of high school Lance was invited to Colorado Springs to train with the U.S Olympic development team...
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...Defining Marketing A person can define marketing in a number of ways. It can evolve from a simplistic approach to one with much more depth. After evaluating the trend of the definition, the term can then be placed with a company to evaluate its success or failure with applying marketing strategies. This paper discusses Shimano Inc.’s approach toward consumer, business, and global markets. Definition of Marketing People have a number of interpretations for the term marketing. One person may construe the concept as an advertisement ploy in which a seller attempts to offer goods or services to an individual or group for a cost. The American Marketing Association (AMA) can build upon this raw observation. The AMA (2007) states “Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.” Four years after the AMA defined marketing, another set of authors defined marketing in a similar form but included a strategic approach. Perrealt (2011) states “Marketing is the performance of activities that seek to accomplish an organization’s objectives by anticipating customer or client needs and directing a flow of need-satisfying goods and services from producer to customer or client” (p. 6). The distinction between the last two formal statements may arise from the financial meltdown that occurred at the end of the decade (Lim, 2009). Marketing adapts...
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...Everyone wants to be the best they can be when it comes to the thing you love. Some people try their hardest other feel that still isn't enough and look for the short way out and enhance their skills with performance drugs such as blood doping and steroids. Lance Armstrong was unfortunately an athlete that ruined his life using the enhancing drugs. "Blood doping is an illicit method of improving athletic performance by artificially boosting the blood's ability to bring more oxygen to muscles" ,according to Varnada karriem (Norwood MD,webmd.com//august2014).Blood doping can cause serious damage to a human body, such as discoloration of the skin, causing body fluid and the skin to appear yellow as well as kidney damage and blood clots. When...
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...07/13/12 Dr. Will Project 1 Final Lance Armstrong is a world famous cyclist that has won many races including seven of the famous Tour de France (one of the worlds’ famous cycling races). He has been through many obstacles in his life including having to go through the process of overcoming testicular cancer that had spread to a lot of different parts of his body. He is one of the many lucky people in the world that was able to survive testicular cancer. Armstrong has been a true inspiration to many people in the world and has won a lot of awards. In the past couple years there has been many people debating whether Lance Armstrong deserved all the attention he got and all the prizes because they are saying that he was using drugs the whole time he was racing and that’s the reason he was winning. Ok for paragraph one. 1. Instead of saying cancer that had spread to allot of different parts of his body, why not name them? 2. How is he lucky? What percentages of people survive testicular cancer you should include a reference in there. 3. How does his debate on people claiming to use drugs tie in the paper? In the article, “Lance Armstrong: World Champion Cyclist” by Layne Cameron, the author talks about all the different races Lance Armstrong has been in and how he finally made it to be the world champion in cycling. The author, Layne Cameron, explains how Lance Armstrong had to overcome testicular cancer and how much work and effort he had to put into getting to where he...
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...Rainmaker Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. ----BURNT NORTON Chapter One At that time, I saw Joe stand there, far away from us, despaired. No one could stop Old Joe from killing us. He came from the future, he had known what would happen thirty years later, and he must kill Sid to save his wife. Old Joe raise his arm, “I am sorry, but your son will became a devil, he must die now.” I shook my head, “Please, I will take him away from here; I will make him to become a normal person. Please.” “I am sorry,” Old Joe was ready to pull the trigger. It was impossible for Joe to save us; he was on the edge of the field, out of his blunderbuss’ firing range. But this time, just as Old Joe was pulling the trigger, a distant shot was heard. And Old Joe disappeared. Joe turned his blunderbuss back on himself and FIRED. I knew it was not the only choice of Joe, but the best. ----From Looper: Destined by Sara White 11th July 2044 The house stands on a slight rise just on the edge of a Kansas corn field near the highway. Not a remarkable house by any means-it is about thirty-year old, squatty, and squarish, made of brick, and had no furniture. The only thing in the house is an Indian ausan. It is about four o’clock in the afternoon. The sky is pregnant with rain. Now, there is a young man stand in the middle of the house, waiting before the dirty ausan. It is Joe, an...
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...Lance Armstrong Confesses Lance Armstrong is an American road-racing cyclist; Lance has won the tour de France a record breaking 7 consecutive times. Armstrong met Kristin Richard in June 1997. They married in May 1 1998 and had three children, Luke David and twins Isabelle Rose and Grace Elisabeth. The couple later filed for divorce Born on September 18, 1971, in Plano, Texas, his mother, Linda, in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas, raised Lance Armstrong; Armstrong was athletic from an early age. He began running and swimming at 10 years old and took up competitive cycling and triathlons At 16, Armstrong began competing as a triathlete and was a national sprint-course triathlon champion in 1989 and 1990. In 1989 the U.S Olympic development champion road race, with the best time of any American since 1976. Soon, Armstrong chose to focus on cycling, his strongest event as well as his favourite. During his senior year in high school, the U.S Olympic development team invited him to train with them in Colorado Springs. He left high school temporarily to do so, but later took private classes and received his high school diploma in 1989. The following summer, he qualified for the 1990 junior world team and placed 11th in the world championship road race, with the best time of any American since 1976. That same beat, he became the U.S national amateur champion and beat out many professional cyclists to win two major races, the first union grand prix and he thrift drug classic...
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...amazing athlete loses his seven Tour De France titles due to the use of drugs.The Tour De France is a hard and brutal race, which is why Lance Armstrong decided to use drugs to help alleviate the pain, but it hurt him in long run. I am going to tell you about the use of drugs in the Tour De France, the case against Lance Armstrong, and how he was publicly shamed. Since the very first race of the Tour De France in 1903, doping was actually allowed. The reason they allowed it was because the race is so long and brutal that it was painful for the racers to keep pedaling for such long periods of time, so in order to get rid of the pain, racers used drugs and drank alcohol. (“Hero”) They only allowed doping for the first 60 years of the Tour...
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...Name: Chenglin Ye SID: 430491467 Tutor: Dr. Stefan Volk Case: Following Lance Armstrong: Excellence Corrupted Briefly summary of the case When it came to the sport of cycling, Lance possessed characteristics that made him unique. His ability to take in and use oxygen effectively was higher than an average man by 90% and a trained and active many by 42%. Lance also produced less lactic acid than others, which allowed him to dominate the shorter races (Rose & Fisher, 2014). By the time he was 21, Lance had already ridden in his first tour and won the U.S. Pro Championship. Lance Armstrong also cheated death at the young age of 25. He won the battle against cancer when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer that then spread to his lungs and brain (Rose & Fisher, 2014). Lance vowed to return to the cycling world someday and that he did. Taking with him the hearts of Americans. With personal sponsors such as Nike, Oakley and Giro and creating the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Lance became an iconic figure. In 1997, when the USPS (United States Postal Service) sponsored the U.S. cycling team, they also took a chance with Lance. It was a rocky start until Johan Bruyneel became the team director and changed Lance’s training schedule and regime (Rose & Fisher, 2014). Armstrong was the key decision maker when it came to the team such as choosing the other riders, the doctors and the support staff. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in January, Armstrong admits...
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