Sunday, 9 January 2011

Human Interest Story

Lance Armstrong is an American professional road racing cyclist. However, in 1996, he was diagnosed with stage three of testicular cancer. His cancer spread to his abdomen, lungs and brain. During his first visit to a urologist in Austin, Texas, he was informed that surgery and chemotherapy were required to save his life. He was constantly coughing up blood and had painful testicular tumor. After his surgery, the doctor stated that he had less than 40% of survival chance. He wanted to avoid the regular treatments because the drug bleomycin would cause the lung to intoxicate. He used cisplatinum to treat his testicular cancer and he surgically removed his brain tumors. His last treatment was on December 13, 1996 and his cancer went into complete remission. And by 1998, he already started his training. 


Before his cancer treatment, Armstrong had won 2 Tour de France stages. Armstrong dropped out of the 1996 Tour on the 7th stage after becoming ill. After his treatment, Armstrong went on to win the Tour de France each year from 1999 to 2005. He is the only person to win 7 times, breaking the former record of 5 wins. He was named Sportsman of the Year(Sports Illustrated Magazine), Best Male Athlete(ESPN's ESPY award) in 2003-06... Armstrong retired from competitive cycling in 2005, after the 2005 Tour de France. 



Citation:


1. http://www.lancearmstrong.com/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Armstrong
3. http://www.livestrong.org/
4. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.freebettingonline.co.uk/betting-blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/lance-armstrong.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.freebettingonline.co.uk/betting-blog/lance-armstrong-eyes-tour-de-france-2009-comeback&usg=__lLdcNzQXM60c49hTkOecJZlgcRw=&h=288&w=460&sz=26&hl=en&start=20&sig2=dPEONY_tWbrRofjcPIVZjg&zoom=1&tbnid=2iNSHUwYVn6TWM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=215&ei=OjI0TZWlK8X2sgbh_bX9CQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlance%2Barmstrong%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D677%26tbs%3Disch:10,705&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=394&vpy=341&dur=63&hovh=178&hovw=284&tx=115&ty=79&oei=BDI0TZPLE5T94AbBy_GIAQ&esq=2&page=2&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:13,s:20&biw=1280&bih=677
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5 comments:

  1. HaEun K.11 January 2011 at 05:04

    Cool person to do your feature on :)

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  2. namebinj12 January 2011 at 08:19

    good research! i say this should go in the paper

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  3. Heedoh.R13 January 2011 at 04:59

    Interesting article. I think that many people like this one even if they don't like sports

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  4. Ryan Y.13 January 2011 at 05:04

    dude, i can tell that you've done your research, and can now tell the difference between lance and neil armstrong. Very good job in you're journalistic writing style. :)

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  5. austin17 January 2011 at 04:29

    Way to get in the research and spit it out so methodically on paper. You really know how to get summarized information down, well done.

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