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Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images. Lance Armstrong (born 1971-09-18) is a road racing cyclist from United States and was active between 1989 and 2011.

As the field accelerated before the foot of the climb, the Texan touched a pedal on a roundabout, his front tyre came unstuck from the rim and he fell on the right side of the road.His jersey was ripped, his knee cut but critically his saddle broke, meaning he needed a new bike, and there were no kind souls in the field to stage a go-slow.

Associate Editor, International Herald Tribune, Neuilly, France. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.After the 1996 Tour de France Armstrong fell ill, and in October his physicians diagnosed On July 25, 1999, Armstrong became the second American to win the Tour de France, the sport’s most prestigious race, and the first to win for an American team (three-time winner He won the Tour again in 2001 and 2002, relying on his strength in the mountain climbs. The company unwittingly underlined the extent of Armstrong's misfortune by switching from live coverage a few minutes after Andy Shleck's stage win, including a lengthy ad break and a fulsome preamble to their World Cup coverage, before eventually going back to live pictures of Armstrong crossing the line. Instead he had to fight to close a 45sec gap, with the help of four team-mates, and when the climb started, he had still to fight his way to the front of the peloton.All those efforts must have taken their toll.

Tour de France 2010: Lance Armstrong enters purgatory on Tour too far This article is more than 9 years old • Crash takes seven-times winner out of contention In 2003 he overcame crashes and illness to claim his fifth consecutive Tour de France, tying a record set by Later in 2013 the U.S. government joined a whistle-blower lawsuit that Landis had initiated against Armstrong in 2010.

In 2009, over the course of writing Tour de Lance: The Extraordinary Story of Lance Armstrong’s Fight to Reclaim the Tour de France, I witnessed his latest improbable comeback. Lance Armstrong admits Tour de France 2010 'not going to be my year' Lance Armstrong was in philosophical mood this morning as he woke in Morzine no longer a contender in the 2010 Tour de France.

Lance Armstrong fell from 14th to 39th overall after Sunday's Stage 8 of the Tour de France.

"I've never been so unlucky," he said later. History at your fingertips

Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The heat beating off the asphalt definitely had an infernal quality about it, and the steepest part of the climb leading to a series of tunnels and avalanche shelters through a rocky gorge marked the start of Armstrong's personal purgatory as he slipped inexorably off the back of the group that included all those with pretensions to a high placing overall.The group still numbered some 35 and that made the point: the seven-times winner was about to have the worst day he has endured in 12 Tour starts.As if by magic – but more probably on the orders of an Astana team manager who had seen the television pictures of the team's former leader in trouble – two of Alberto Contador's team-mates appeared at the front of the group and upped the pace.The chance to put such a major rival out of the reckoning could not be missed but it was hard to resist the obvious conclusion: Contador was taking revenge for the mind games Armstrong played with him as they jostled for team leadership last year.Even before the race hit the Ramaz Armstrong's day had a nightmare quality.

The counter-argument runs that in the Tour good luck tends to followthe men in form, because the slightest weakness means a fractional slowing in reaction time and a minute increase in stress levels that can make a cyclist simply try too hard.The rest of the stage was what the French love to call "I was behind, so starting the Ramaz was hard and then it went from bad to worse," Armstrong told French television.

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Photograph: Christophe Ena/APLance Armstrong grimaces as he tries to up the pace to catch the breakaway after his fall at the foot of the Col de la Ramaz. Author of Lance Armstrong, American cyclist, who was the only rider to win seven Tour de France titles (1999–2005) but who was later stripped of all his titles after an investigation revealed that he was the key figure in a wide-ranging doping conspiracy while he compiled his Tour … Get 30% your subscription today.

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