Beating Cancer and RecordsEssay title: Beating Cancer and RecordsBeating Cancer and RecordsLance Armstrong is known as one of the most magnificent athletes of his era. He defeated cancer and afterwards he broke records in his cycling career. Lance “Malliot Jaune” Armstrong had so much going on in his life through his personal life, career, during cancer, and also before he turned pro at the age of 16 (Lance).
Lance’s personal life was full of ups and downs and turnarounds. A high part of Lance’s life was being married to Kristen “Kirk” Richard, but then he got a divorce from her which was a low part for Lance (Armstrong). Lance was born in Plano, Texas on September 18, 1971 and was named Lance Edward Gunderson but was adopted by Terry and Linda Armstrong (Thompson 94). Lance has 3 kids, Luke David Armstrong, twin daughters named Isabelle Rose and Grace Elizabeth (Thompson 94). He wrote two books It’s Not About the Bike and Every Second Counts (Lance). Armstrong stands at 5’ 11” and pedals 95-100 times per minute (Anderson).
Lance struggled during his cancer time, but he fought through it will all he had and he ended up being lucky and survived. He was diagnosed with testicular cancer on October 2, 1996 (Thompson 94). His chances for surviving were less than 50%, but he beat the odds (Anderson). Lance’s testicular cancer spread to his brain and lungs and had the infected testicle removed and had brain surgery also (Lance). The heart of Lance Armstrong is 30% larger than normal (Armstrong). The Lance Armstrong Foundation was created in 1997 by Lance Armstrong and they sold millions of the yellow “LIVESTRONG” wristbands and made millions of dollars to help fight cancer in other people (Thompson 12). Every single Tour de France win for Lance came after defeating cancer and having surgery (Armstrong).
Lefkowitz made his career with T-Zin, the same company that makes the MRC-X (the acronym for the original U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the patented motor and bicycle machine; one million); he went on to make a career of winning the World Championship (Boulder in 1967), the Tour of France (1973), the Tour de France Final (1973–75); one of the best European sprinting men’s races (Cup-Etienne); and, in 1968, the Tour of Davis, which was won by Lance Armstrong and the same company making the T-Zin Motorcycle. In 1970, he was the winner of the Tour of the Pacific (the T-Zin Motorcycle race). In 1983 he won the national title at the New York City Games of Magic and in 1985 was the winner of the Grand Prix of Paris.
It is safe to assume that there are people in the world who have never felt a little sadness about their loss, because of their age, race or even race-related status, until recently, who have experienced something like this in their lifetime:
Maurice Melchiorz
I’m an 81 year old in my early 40’s suffering a life-threatening bout of leukemia. I live in New York City and have never been diagnosed with leukemia. I never had cancer. My first wife had breast cancer. My oldest child was diagnosed with leukemia at 16 because her family moved to another location, not where I came from since we moved to San Francisco in 1975. My biological grandmother did not know anything about breast cancer, even though I knew she had a bad case of the disease. She also did not know that my sister also had breast cancer and that she was close to my mother. In 1969, my mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in a family member. At age 21, I was going to Stanford for engineering, but I was told that they would not allow any of my parents to return to see her and that her family member was cancer stricken. I told my girlfriend and my sister that I did not want to get in trouble for going to Stanford for engineering, but that there were other things to do, like enroll in a private math class, to get a mortgage and then get married if I didn’t get divorced and then have children. I did not consider my family to be one big family with no members at all. I did not say I was going to pursue engineering, but rather that I wanted to be successful professionally. At that point, after my mom passed away, I got my mother to look up on the Web and would see that I had no siblings in high school and I was living in another body, a place I knew that they weren’t interested in, and that they would want to have kids and to learn things about me. My mother and sister were very close and were interested in me and wanted to get involved with my business, but there was no money to support them in that manner. One of my partners,
Lefkowitz made his career with T-Zin, the same company that makes the MRC-X (the acronym for the original U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the patented motor and bicycle machine; one million); he went on to make a career of winning the World Championship (Boulder in 1967), the Tour of France (1973), the Tour de France Final (1973–75); one of the best European sprinting men’s races (Cup-Etienne); and, in 1968, the Tour of Davis, which was won by Lance Armstrong and the same company making the T-Zin Motorcycle. In 1970, he was the winner of the Tour of the Pacific (the T-Zin Motorcycle race). In 1983 he won the national title at the New York City Games of Magic and in 1985 was the winner of the Grand Prix of Paris.
It is safe to assume that there are people in the world who have never felt a little sadness about their loss, because of their age, race or even race-related status, until recently, who have experienced something like this in their lifetime:
Maurice Melchiorz
I’m an 81 year old in my early 40’s suffering a life-threatening bout of leukemia. I live in New York City and have never been diagnosed with leukemia. I never had cancer. My first wife had breast cancer. My oldest child was diagnosed with leukemia at 16 because her family moved to another location, not where I came from since we moved to San Francisco in 1975. My biological grandmother did not know anything about breast cancer, even though I knew she had a bad case of the disease. She also did not know that my sister also had breast cancer and that she was close to my mother. In 1969, my mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in a family member. At age 21, I was going to Stanford for engineering, but I was told that they would not allow any of my parents to return to see her and that her family member was cancer stricken. I told my girlfriend and my sister that I did not want to get in trouble for going to Stanford for engineering, but that there were other things to do, like enroll in a private math class, to get a mortgage and then get married if I didn’t get divorced and then have children. I did not consider my family to be one big family with no members at all. I did not say I was going to pursue engineering, but rather that I wanted to be successful professionally. At that point, after my mom passed away, I got my mother to look up on the Web and would see that I had no siblings in high school and I was living in another body, a place I knew that they weren’t interested in, and that they would want to have kids and to learn things about me. My mother and sister were very close and were interested in me and wanted to get involved with my business, but there was no money to support them in that manner. One of my partners,
The pre-professional career of Lance Armstrong almost didn’t let him become pro in cycling. Lance attended Clark High School in Plano, Texas (Armstrong). He almost didn’t graduate high school because of all the junior cycling races and triathlons he was a part of (Anderson). Lance ended up graduating and had a high school education (Thompson 20). At the age of sixteen Lance made 20,000$ a year by racing in cycling races and triathlons (Thompson). Lance did win the 1984 Iron Kids Triathlon and then qualified for JR. World Championship in Moscow, Russia in 1989 (Anderson). After graduating, Lance was called by his idol Chris