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Article: Is this ruthless 'freak' with a rock star girlfriend the greatest sportsman in history? As cancer survivor Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2005
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Byline: LEO MCKINSTRY
As cancer survivor Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France ...
THE LEGENDARY American football coach Vince Lombardi once said: 'Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.' Today, those words perfectly capture the single-minded zeal of U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong, who has just secured a record-breaking seventh successive victory in the Tour de France, the most gruelling of human endurance tests.
But his sporting success is dwarfed by his personal triumph.
For here we have a classic tale of a fatherless youth who, despite a freakish talent, almost blew his chances through waywardness - until ...