Lance Armstrong Net Worth

Short introduction

Lance Armstrong never made a secret as an extreme person. During the active time as a cyclist, he achieved an unprecedented increase in severe illness to be a winner of the seven times from the Tour de France.

After his career, Armstrong became the protagonist from an unprecedented doping scandal which cost seven Tour de France’s degree and caused his public branding as a fraud.

Armstrong must also pay tribute to a financial doping scandal. After an estimated 110 million euros, he could still call himself more than 45 million despite all fines.

Early life

Lance Armstrong was born in 1971 on the outskirts of Dallas. He was only two years old when his father left the family. After the separation, Ms. Lance married adopsive forces in the future, Terry Armstrong, who gave him hard education, sometimes hard. Looking for ways to escape the intimidation of his stepfather, Lance Armstrong found cycling for himself.

In 1984 Armstrong tried for the first time as a triathlete at the age of 13 years. In 1987 he participated in his first bicycle race. In 1988 he had his first success when he took third place in a short distance triathlon in the national championship. This year he was also invited to a junior national cycling team training camp.

In 1989 and 1990 he was then celebrated as a national champion at the distance of Sprint Triathlon. In 1991, the National Championship in Road Racing for Amateurs followed. A year later, Armstrong was 14 in the road race at the Barcelona Olympics.

Career

In 1992 Lance Armstrong signed his first professional contract with the Motorola team. A year later, he participated in the de France tour for the first time and immediately won his first stage. However, he must stop the tour prematurely for health reasons. In the same year he became the youngest world champion of all time in Oslo.

Armstrong completed the Tour de France for the first time in 1995 and won another stage. In this way, he gets a reputation as an expert in a one-day race. However, only a few of them believed he could win the Tour de France, especially because he lost too much time at the mountain stage.

1996 became the first main turning point in the Armstrong biography due to a cancer diagnosis. This disease is very advanced so it has not been clear if he will survive. In retrospect, Armstrong often talks about the fact that suffering has given him a mental device that he owes a winning streak at the Tour de France.

It was only thanks to special chemotherapy, especially painful which he managed to avoid lung damage which would mean the end of his career.

Armstrong returned in 1998 as part of the US POS team. Victory at Luxembourg Tour and fourth place in Vuelta, Espana is amazing, but the media talks about the sensation and “comeback of the century” when Armstrong won the Tour de France for the first time the following year.

Six wins follow more. After that, Armstrong did not have much success until retirement in 2011.

Although there were serious indications in 2000 that Armstrong had doses in the victory of the Tour de France, the truth was only revealed in 2010 when two former teammates claimed. Disclosure to attract all Armstrong titles has won since 1998.

Career highlights

Because of the doping affair and the loss of his title, it is difficult to talk about highlighting Lance Armstrong’s career. If there is, the struggle is successful against cancer and a comeback that follows giving hope to many cancer patients. Armstrong continues to fight cancer through its commitment to those affected.

Amazing facts

Armstrong is sometimes associated with leading women such as actress Ashley Olsen and Singer Rock Sheryl Crow

In 2004, Armstrong had a brief appearance with Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller in the film “Full of Beans”

Armstrong’s book “The Tour of Life” is number one in the German bestseller list