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Article: Uphill task for Armstrong.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 16, 2001
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PHILADELPHIA _ Now, the mountains.
The Alps Tuesday and Wednesday, then the Pyrenees for three more days.
That is where he intends to pulverize them.
Five days from now, the most persistent athlete in the world will have reduced the longest, hardest, oldest race there is to a matter of will.
And when it comes down to that, then Lance Armstrong has no equal.
When you have arisen from your deathbed, when you have survived an especially virulent and ruthless cancer, when you have already won the Tour de France two summers running, then mountains have a way of shrinking.
Of all our performers, Lance Armstrong best ...