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1992: After winning the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1991 and finishing 14th at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Lance Armstrong wins a place on the Motorola team for the 1993 Tour de France. (AP Photo)
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29 August 1993: Lance Armstrong in jubilation as he crosses the finish line to win the individual road race at the World Cycling Championships Spain's Miguel Indurain finished second, Olaf Ludwig of Germany third. (AFP Photo)
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11 July 1993: Lance Armstrong celebrates winning his first the Tour de France stage, the 8th stage in Verdun. (AFP PHOTO/Patrick KOVARIK)
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1996: Lance Armstrong is diagnosed with lung, brain and testicular cancer and is given a less than 40% chance of survival. (AP Photo)
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Lance Armstrong with the American flag after winning the Tour de France for the first time, after his cancer went into total remission.(AP Photo)
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July 25, 1999 file photo shows Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong being kissed by his wife Kristin, left, and his mother Linda after the 20th and final stage of the Tour de France cycling race in Paris. Later, in 2003, he files for divorce from his first wife. (AFP Photo)
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Lance Armstrong's with one of his four children, Luke David Armstrong. The pregnancy was possible through sperm Armstrong banked three years earlier, prior to chemotherapy and surgery. (AFP PHOTO PATRICK KOVARIK)
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Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong (L) and model Cindy Crawford (R) pose backstage at the GQ Men of the Year Awards 21 October, 1999 at the Becon Theater in New York. Crawford presented Armstrong with the Courage Awards. (AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA)
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Armstrong began dating singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow in late 2003 and revealed their relationship in January 2004. The couple announced their engagement in September 2005 and their split in February 2006. (AP Photo)
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File photos taken in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 show Lance Armstrong and his six Tour de France victories with US Postal. (AFP Photo)
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Lance Armstrong waves a paper reading "7" (for seven victories) after winning his final Tour de France with Discovery Channel team, before announcing his retirement. (AFP Photo)
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Despite Lance's success his career is dogged by controversy and embroiled in scandal as he is the subject of numerous allegations of doping in the press. (AFP PHOTO SEBASTIEN BERDA)
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Lance Armstrong has always maintained that despite being the most tested athlete in history, he has never returned a positive test for doping. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
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US President Bill Clinton (C) receives a replica bicycle, helmet and autographed jersey from1999 Tour De France champion Lance Armstrong (R) and his wife Kristen 10 August, 1999, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. Armstrong was at the White House to meet the President and Vice President, who also anounced new progress in cancer research. (AFP PHOTO / Tim Sloan)
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Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush (L) shows off a racing jersey presented to him by Tour De France champion Lance Armstrong (R) 09 August 1999 in at the state capital in Austin, Texas. Armstrong rode through the streets of Austin in a parade honoring him. (AFP PHOTO/PAUL BUCK)
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2009: Comeback - Lance Armstrong returns from retirement to cycle for the Astana team. He finishes second behind Alberto Contador. (AP Photo)
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After retiring from cycling for the second time in 2011, Lance Armstrong takes up competing in Ironman events, but is forced to withdraw after USADA brings a case of doping against him. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)
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May 19, 2007 file photo, Floyd Landis testifies during an arbitration hearing on doping allegations at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. At center, in an April 21, 2008 file photo, Tyler Hamilton prepares for the first stage of the Tour de Georgia bike race in Tybee Island, Ga. At right, in a Feb. 27, 2008 file photo, United States Anti-Doping Agency Chief Executive Officer Travis Tygart speaks at a hearing on drug use in sports in Washington. (AFP Photo)
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On August 23, 2012, Armstrong announced that he would not be fighting the USADA's charges. Later that day the USADA confirmed in a statement that Armstrong was banned for life and would be disqualified from any and all competitive results obtained on and subsequent to August 1, 1998, and forfeiture of any medals, titles, winnings, finishes, points and prizes including his Tour de France titles. (AP Photo)
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11 October 2012 - USADA unveils it's Armstrong report, saying it proves that Lance Armstrong and his team ran the most sophisticated doping programme in sport. The report includes the testimony of 11 of his former teammates and paints the former icon as a drug user, trafficker, bully and cover-up artist. An overwhelming segment of the sporting fraternity brand him the biggest cheat in sporting history. (AFP PHOTO FRANCK FIFE)
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