Research Paper - Lance Armstrong

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Lance Edward Gunderson was born on Sept. 18,1971, in Plano, Texas. And in 1974, his mother married Terry Armstrong, who eventually adopted lance. At a very young age lance was competing in triathlons and marathons, and eventually started his career in 1992 as a member of the Motorola cycling team. I can go on and on about all the trophies he had won and the awards he has gotten; but i want to tell you how his career and actions have impacted America’s society Socially, Economically and Culturally. In this paragraph i'm going to talk about how Lance Armstrong impacted the American Society socially. In 2010 the United States Anti-doping Agency (USADA) started an investigation against Lance, which he constantly denied. After many months of investigation, Armstrong announced on August 23, 2012 that he would end his fight against these charges. But yet he still insisted that he was innocent of all doping violations. Immediately after the USADA announced that they would strip armstrong of his seven tour de france and the bronze medal he won at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games and was banned from cycling for life. In a television interview in January 2013, Armstrong admitted he had been involved in doping during his cycling career. This shook the cycling community and the sports community because for years he was viewed as the best cyclist and everyone looked up to him. Since his doping scandal Lance has moved on and is taking time for

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