職業單車手岩士唐(Lance Armstrong)!!!!!help~(急)!!

Lance Armstrong's mother was 17 when she gave birth. His father abandoned them when he was two, and Armstrong has never seen him since. When reporters ask, he refers to his natural father as "the DNA donor". Lance started as a triathlete, the sport where competitors swim, cycle and run. He was good in the water and fast on his feet, but cycling was Armstrong's strength, and he soon decided to concentrate on cycling competitions. He won the US amateur cycling championship in 1991, and turned professional the following year.

In 1996 Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with testicular cancer, which had already spread to his brain and lungs, and doctors told him he had a 50/50 chance of surviving. Armstrong underwent surgery, received high-dose chemotherapy, and eventually recovered. His doctors then told him the 50/50 line had been a little white lie -- his actual odds of survival had been much worse, but they did not want to get his spirits down. In 1997, Armstrong began cycling again, and established the Lance Armstrong Foundation. The Foundation provides education and advocacy for cancer patients, and funds cancer research.

In 1999, he qualified for cycling's most prestigious race, the Tour de France -- a huge one-lap race around all of France, broken into 20 stages plus a short prologue. The race's flat stages eventually give way to steep mountains, which separate the winner from the also-rans. The total distance is more than 2,000 miles, and it is incredibly grueling. Armstrong won the Tour de France seven times consecutively, from 1999 through 2005.

Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than that of an average man. It beats about thirty-two times a minute during those moments when Armstrong is at rest, and can exceed two hundred beats a minute when he exerts himself. Either number is far enough from the norm to startle any doctor with a stethoscope.

In August 2005, Jean-Marie Leblanc, director of the Tour de France, said that Armstrong owes the world an explanation after a newspaper reported that forbidden steroids had been found in Armstrong's blood sample (the sample itself was taken 1999, and was tested years afterward for a previously-unsought steroid). Armstrong has always denied taking performance-enhancing drugs.


Father: Edward Gunderson
Mother: Linda Armstrong Kelly (nee Mooneyham)
Father: Terry Armstrong (stepfather)
Wife: Kristin (Richard) Armstrong (m. 8-May-1998, div. 2003)
Son: Luke David Armstrong (12-Oct-1999, with Kristin)
Daughter: Isabelle Armstrong (twin, b. 2001, with Kristin)
Daughter: Grace Armstrong (twin, b. 2001, with Kristin)
Girlfriend: Sheryl Crow (dating as of 2004)


High School: Plano East Senior High, Plano, TX
High School: Dallas, TX (1989)


Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year 2002
Endorsement of Comcast 2003
Endorsement of Nike
Asteroid Namesake 12373 Lancearmstrong
Risk Factors: Testicular Cancer


FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (18-Jun-2004) Himself


Official Website:
http://www.lancearmstrong.com/

Author of books:
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000, memoir, with Sally Jenkins)
Every Second Counts (2004)






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Lance Armstrong (born Lance Edward Gunderson on Sept. 18, 1971 in Plano, Texas) is a retired American professional road racing cyclist. He won the Tour de France, professional cycling's most prestigious race, a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005. In doing so, he beat the previous record of five consecutive wins, held by Miguel Indurain and five non consecutive wins shared by Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx and Jacques Anquetil. This feat was accomplished several years after brain and testicular surgery, and extensive chemotherapy in 1996, to treat testicular cancer that had metastasized to his brain and lungs.
In 2002, Sports Illustrated magazine named him Sportsman of the Year. He was also named Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, received ESPN's ESPY Award for Best Male Athlete in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, and won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award in 2003. Armstrong retired from racing on July 24, 2005, at the end of the 2005 Tour de France.
His athletic success and his dramatic recovery from cancer inspired Armstrong to commemorate his accomplishments in conjunction with Nike through the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a charity founded in 1997. The Foundation's yellow rubber "Livestrong" wristbands, first launched in 2004, have been a major success, netting the Foundation tens of millions of dollars in the fight against cancer, while helping Armstrong become a major player in the nonprofit sector.