My name is Lance Armstrong and I'm...

What do I do? That's a really good question.

Armstrong, of course, used to be the most lionized athlete in the world.

He's from Plano, Texas. He came up relatively hard.

I mean, I didn't grow up on the street, but I didn't grow up behind a white pick

offense with, you know, 2.3 brothers and sisters in an SUV and a mom and a dad.

My mom and I were scrapers.

He swam competitively, ran track and cross-country, he rode a bike too.

And then I did trout lawns professionally from the age of 15 to 18.

He specialized in events that placed a high value on the ability to withstand suffering.

You have to train very hard and you just got to be tough as nails.

Armstrong wasn't good at school and he wasn't interested either, but it didn't seem to matter.

He became a professional cyclist and when he was 27 years old, he won the Tour de France,

the three-week, 2,200-mile race that makes the labors of Hercules look like a walk in the park.

I mean, it is really a brutally, brutally hard sport.

The Tour de France is so famous that it's known even by people who know zero about cycling,

which in America is pretty much everyone.

That changed with Lance Armstrong, especially when he won again the following year.

He put half the nation in Spandex.

And then he won again, again, again an unprecedented seven tour winds all in a row.

He became a hero, then a legend, and then something even bigger because he won those seven

tours after having survived cancer and starting a cancer foundation called Livestrong.

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