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Lance Armstrong: Lance Armstrong Foundation
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While Lance does not particularly like being labeled "The Boss of the Peloton", but that's exactly what he was coming into the 2001 season. He continued his demanding training schedule, determined to come into the Tour in even stronger form than he had in the 2 previous years. The team strengthened as well by signing climbing specialists Chechu Rubiera and 2000 Vuelta Espana winner Roberto Heras to add even more USPS horsepower in the Alps and Pyrenees. Lance started the year off quietly in the Spanish multi-day Tour of Murcia and Semana Catalana races to get the juices flowing. By now, his Foundation's "Ride for the Roses" weekend in the Spring had dramatically risen in attendance - from a few hundred riders in 1997 to over 6,500 this time around! In mid-season he rode the French Circuit de la Sarthe and Paris-Camembert events, again, primarily for training.
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While fighting cancer in 1997, Lance Armstrong founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Today he is a representative for the worldwide cancer community and is equally renowned for his cycling victories and his leadership and activism on behalf of cancer survivors. He is living proof of the power and will to overcome obstacles and live strong.
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Armstrong's athletic success and dramatic recovery from cancer inspired him to commemorate his accomplishments, with Nike, through the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a charity founded in 1997. The foundation's yellow rubber "Livestrong" wristbands, first launched in 2004, have been a major success, netting the foundation more than $60 million dollars in the fight against cancer, while helping Armstrong become a major player in the nonprofit sector.
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Since forming the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) in 1997, the Texas-based cyclist has emerged as a leading spokesman and activist in the fight against cancer. And because of its many fund-raising and education-based initiatives, the foundation has become recognized throughout the world. According to the official LAF Web site, Armstrong's belief is that "in your battle with cancer, knowledge is power and attitude is everything." The foundation carries out its mission through four program areas: education (providing information and resources); advocacy (representing cancer patients and survivors in Washington, D.C.); public health (after-treatment support); and research (in 2005 the foundation funded twenty research projects through grants totaling $3.3 million).
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In May of 1998 Lance celebrated his victory over cancer and his "official" return to U.S. cycling by winning under the lights in dramatic fashion the Sprint 56K Criterium along the streets of downtown Austin. The race was just one part of the Ride for the Roses, a weekend of cycling and celebration in Austin, Texas benefiting Lance's Foundation. The month was not only memorable in a professional sense, but personally as well - he had recently become engaged to Kristin Richard. Their year long romance, which first began at the 1997 Ride for the Roses, culminated in a beautiful ceremony with family and close friends in Santa Barbara, California on May 8.
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De Lance Armstrong Foundation, door hem opgericht, ondersteunt kankerslachtoffers en kankeronderzoek. In 2004 werden de gele anti-kanker Livestrong bandjes, in samenwerking met Nike ontwikkeld, een rage in de hele wereld. Veel beroemde sporters dragen de bandjes nog steeds.
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