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Lance Armstrong
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Lance Armstrong Lance Armstrong (born 1971) will certainly be remembered for being an outstanding...Tour de France, but he will touch more lives through the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the Race for the Roses charity bike ride, which...
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Tour de France
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...in Spain 1996 Bjarne Riis Denmark 1997 Jan Ullrich Germany 1998 Marco Pantini Italy 1999 Lance Armstrong USA 2000 Lance Armstrong USA 2001 Lance Armstrong USA 2002 Lance Armstrong USA 2003 Lance Armstrong USA
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Merckx, Eddy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...had a competitor for that title: American cyclist Lance Armstrong, who won cycling's premier race seven times to Merckx...five. But the two athletes are difficult to compare. Armstrong, especially after his bout with cancer, restricted...
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Bicycles and Bicycling
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...competitive cycling back into the public imagination. Lance Armstrong, racing for the U.S. Postal Service team after...1999. With a follow‐up victory in 2000, Armstrong and his team further boosted the popularity and visibility...
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bicycle racing
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...American Floyd Landis, tested positive for high testosterone levels (and presumed testosterone use) and was ultimately stripped of the title. In addition, the long-dominant Lance Armstrong was accused, after his retirement, of doping.
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U.S. Postal Service
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...middle 1990s, the USPS began sponsoring a professional bicycling team that gained worldwide renown when team member Lance Armstrong won the prestigious Tour de France for five consecutive years beginning in 1999. In 2002 the USPS announced a postal...
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Sitting Bull
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...as the man most responsible for the defeat of Colonel George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. After counting...Collins, CO: Old Army Press. Utley, Robert M. 1994. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull . New York...
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Army Combat Branches: Cavalry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...force or pursue retreating units, using pistols, swords, lance, and the intimidating power of massed horses to overwhelm...on each side, however, like J. E. B. Stuart and George Armstrong Custer , made a name for themselves leading or directing units...
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