Lance Edward Amstrong is a professional road racing cyclist before he admitted in a television interview sometime in January 2013 that he is using performance enhancing drugs throughout his career.
Armstrong was born on September 18, 1971 at Plano, Texas, north of Dallas. At age 12, Armstrong started his sporting career as a swimmer at the City of Plano Swim Club and finished fourth in Texas state 1,500-meter freestyle. Armstrong’s total points in 1987 as an amateur were better than those of five professionals ranked higher than he was that year.
Edward had notable success in his career between 1993 and 1996. He won the World Championship in 1993, Clásica de San Sebastián in 1995, in Tour DuPont, Europe and Limoges in the Tour de France. However, he was disqualified in 2012 from all his results since August 1998 from using performance enhancing drugs. It was the Court of Arbitration for Sport that declared dismissal of Lance Edward Amstrong as a professional road racing cyclist. Edward didn’t even appeal to the decision.
L.A. Confidentiel – Les secrets de Lance Armstrong is a book published by reporters Pierre Ballester and David Walsh in 2004. The book was about Lance Edward Amstrong as allegedly using performance enhancing drugs while competitions.
At age 25 in 1996, Armstrong was diagnosed as having stage three testicular cancer. He was coughing up blood already and experiences a large, painful testicular tumor. Before his cancer treatment, Edward won two Tour de France stages. He really does well as a cyclist.