Lance: The Making of the World's Greatest Champion
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A New York Times bestseller—the inspiring account of how the seven-time Tour de France champion and creator of the LiveStrong campaign became the world’s greatest champion Publishers Weekly By winning the Tour de France seven straight times (after surviving testicular cancer, no less), Lance Armstrong reached the hallowed status of athletes like Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali. With Armstrong's cooperation, Wilcockson (23 Days in July) profiles the cyclist's rise from a hell-raising Texas kid to a determined, disciplined champion who celebrates the highs of sports immortality while enduring lows like repeated doping allegations and shattered relationships. Wilcockson has tracked down an array of impressive sources-numerous cycling associates, family members, even Armstrong's ex-wife, Kristin. However, the resulting interviews provide little more than inspirational platitudes or fuzzy reminiscences, which are accompanied by ponderous accounts of training regimens and cycling events. With Wilcockson's fawning prose the book consistently reads like a press release (e.g., "Once Lance makes a promise...he always keeps it") a heavy contributor. Armstrong has led an extraordinary life so far, becoming synonymous with a sport and a disease while befriending movie stars and dating celebrities like Sheryl Crow. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Preface ixPrologue: Just an Idea 11 Origins 91 Raising Lance 213 Breaking Out 374 Wanting It All 505 Moving On 676 Here Comes the King 817 The Road to Barcelona 988 A Rookie in Orbit 1109 Breakthrough 12410 The Rainbow and the Gold 14511 A Shadow and a Curse 15912 Endings and Beginnings 17713 Roller-Coaster Ride 19514 A Steep Hill to Climb 21015 New Beginnings 22716 False Start 24417 Yellow Jersey 25818 Knockout 27919 The Blue Train 30420 An Impossible Dream 32421 One More for the Road 34322 World's Greatest Champion 353Afterword 371Acknowledgments 387Index 389
