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BORN: 18 September 1971, Plano, Texas, USA

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Doping to an extraordinarily brazen degree over many years

1) The Texan’s cycling career was split into two stages, pre- and post-testicular cancer. Before his brush with death, Armstrong forged a highly impressive reputation as a big race rider in winning the 1993 World Championship and stages at the Grand Tour events in Europe.

2) Armstrong battled to overcome cancer and won the respect of many people around the world. Unfortunately for him and them, his entrance back into the sport coincided with rampant drug use that he spent years viciously denying in winning seven Tours de France.

3) He once admitted his confession was probably ‘too late’ – yes, not least because your confession came nearly three years after you’d been caught.

4) When asked if he got what he deserved, Armstrong said: ‘I deserve to be punished. Not sure I deserve a death penalty.’ To be fair, Lance, it’d be pretty hard to give you that as your tolerance to drugs is likely to be ridiculously high.

DID YOU KNOW: Armstrong dated singer Sheryl Crow from 2003 to 2006 – during which time she only released one new album, so maybe we shouldn’t be so hard on him.

Suspicions that Lance was cheating were first aroused when he beat this guy in a race

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