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Lance Armstrong's strength and endurance sometimes seem too extraordinary to be believed. Armstrong, a six-time winner of the Tour de France bicycle race who next month will try for his seventh straight victory, can cover 32 miles in one hour of riding. In contrast, the average cyclist covers 16 miles; a top marathon runner can cover 21 miles on a bike. Armstrong can ride up the mountains in France generating about 500 watts of power for 20 minutes, something a typical 25-year-old could do for only 30 seconds. A professional hockey player might last three minutes - and then throw...

DALLAS — Cycling champion Lance Armstrong is drawing admiring reviews from campaign veterans for his role in pushing for cancer research money, and they say he may have political potential. Armstrong lobbied the Legislature and campaigned for Proposition 15, a $3 billion bond issue for cancer research that voters approved this month. Armstrong toured in a bus and made television appearances with former President George H.W. Bush. State Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, and Cathy Bonner, a former aide to the late Gov. Anne Richards, want Armstrong to run for office. "When you travel with him, it's a rock star kind...

"Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks during the Livestrong Presidential Cancer Forum with seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, left, Monday, Aug. 27, 2007, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa."

The Talk Shows Sunday, August 26th, 2007 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Jack Reed, D-R.I.; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John Warner, R-Va.; cyclist Lance Armstrong. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and his wife, Elizabeth. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Jim Webb, D-Va., and John Cornyn, R-Texas; former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, the No. 2...

Tour de France Winner’s Team Will Disband By IAN AUSTEN The cycling team of Lance Armstrong and this year's Tour de France winner Alberto Contador said Friday that it will disband after failing to replace the Discovery Channel as its sponsor. The announcement came at roughly the same that Contador held a news conference in Spain to deny the doping allegations that plagued him even before his victory last month. In normal circumstances, a Tour de France win should have assured the continuation of the Discovery Channel squad which is owned by Tailwind Sports, a company based in Austin, Texas,...

Edwards bikes with Lance Armstrong: 'The biggest problem is my butt hurts'... Then the link. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070725/NEWS/70725054/1001

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, one of the most spectacular soccer players ever, comes from the infamous, Muslim dominated area of Rosengård in Malmö, Sweden's third biggest city. He presently plays for the major European club of Inter Milan and has formerly been contracted by Juventus, Ajax and Malmö FF among others. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, known as "Ibra" to Italian soccer fans, is one of the very few Muslim immigrants from the Malmö region who've made major success in any area of life (another exception is Hip hop artist Timbuktu - not especially well known in the US though). Many Rosengård Muslims strive to...

DEAD MAN'S HOLE — When Lance Armstrong, the famous cancer-slayer and Tour de France champion, bought a 200-acre ranch in the Texas Hill Country several years ago, his neighbors didn't expect any trouble. Despite his fame, they figured they had something in common with the star cyclist, who was drawn to this countryside about 40 miles west of Austin for the same reasons they all were: the breathtaking landscape, the privacy of the hills and, above all, a shimmering emerald pool hidden deep in the embrace of a fern-draped limestone grotto. Armstrong was so taken with the pool, called Dead...

It could have been a chapter right out of the late Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. Actually, it was an article in Glamour magazine earlier this summer, written by Kristin Armstrong, ex-wife of cyclist Lance Armstrong. In a piece titled “What I wish I had known about marriage,” Armstrong expresses regret over having lost herself in marriage by forgetting about her own needs and trying to be the perfect wife and mother. She cautions other women not to do the same. Oprah identified so much with Armstrong’s message that she devoted an entire hour to it on her program —...

September 12, 2006 NEW YORK (AP) -- Two of Lance Armstrong's former teammates said they used a performance-enhancing drug when they were getting ready for the 1999 Tour de France, according to a newspaper report. Frankie Andreu, a 39-year-old former team captain, and another teammate who requested anonymity because he still works in cycling, told The New York Times they used EPO in preparation for the 1999 race, when Armstrong won the first of his seven titles in cycling's biggest race.

CHICAGO - A new but unproven theory says body heat might explain Lance Armstrong’s astounding victory over testicular cancer. The theory — disputed by Armstrong’s doctor — refers to the unusually high cure rate for testicular cancer, even when it has spread to other parts of the body. This form of cancer was highly treatable even before Armstrong was diagnosed in 1996. However, his public battle with the disease and seven subsequent Tour de France triumphs put a special spotlight on his recovery. According to three Johns Hopkins University researchers, the reason for the good prognosis might have to do...

Lance Armstrong says the Discovery Channel team has been so impressed by Floyd Landis that it wants to sign him. With only one rider finishing in the top 20 of the Tour de France, Discovery could use Landis' leadership. ''We've always been interested in Floyd; he's a damn good rider,'' Armstrong told The Associated Press. ``We would take Floyd back. We've pursued him for some time now.'' From his room at the Crillon hotel in Paris, Armstrong watched Landis step onto the podium -- the third American to win the showcase event, a year after Armstrong's seventh and final title....

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Lance Armstrong renewed his verbal attack on the French, bashing their World Cup team during an American awards show and using a derogatory word to describe the players. "All their players (France) tested positive ... for being a** holes," the seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong was quoted as saying in the Los Angeles Daily News on Friday. The American cycling hero Armstrong made his comments in his opening monologue as the host of ESPY Awards, an annual televised event produced by ESPN. The show was taped on Wednesday at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre and is scheduled...

PARIS -- Lance Armstrong dropped defamation lawsuits in France after winning three legal battles elsewhere over doping accusations. Donald Manasse and Christian Charriere-Bournazel, Armstrong's lawyers in France, said Thursday the seven-time Tour de France champion had instructed them to "dismiss all pending actions." That means a trial set to start in October against the authors of the book "LA Confidential: The Secrets of Lance Armstrong" will not proceed. The book accused Armstrong of using banned substances, a claim he has always denied. "I think we're 10-0 in lawsuits right now," Armstrong said Thursday. "My life is not about that anymore....

This will be a very exciting Tour de France without You Know Who! We will all miss Lance Armstrong and the way he rode with such domination during his seven Tour wins. But now that the King has abdicated, there are plenty of others who think they are up to sitting on the vacant throne. Even without Lance, there is no sign of American cycling taking a dive. In fact, the opposite is true and Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer, George Hincapie, Chris Horner, Christian Van de Velde, Bobby Julich and others, too, have all enjoyed an exceptional period this year....

93rd Tour de France - ProT France, July 1-23, 2006Who will fill Armstrong's shoes? The 2006 Tour de France is the most open since 1999 with no obvious candidate to totally dominate the race as Lance Armstrong did. With a balanced parcours that will favour an all-rounder and a mix of outgoing greats who have been waiting their turn and up-and-coming stars, this year's Tour could be the most exciting in years. John Kenny looks at the favourites and the outsiders for the podium in Paris. The route for this year's edition of the Tour will open the race up...

Former Tour de France champion Greg LeMond has claimed that he was threatened by fellow American Lance Armstrong for having criticised the seven-time race winner's association with a doctor implicated in doping affairs. LeMond, who won the Tour de France in 1986, 1989, 1990, said that he had come under pressure from Armstrong and his circle of friends after saying in 2001 that he was disappointed at the Texan cyclist's association with Italian sports doctor Michele Ferrari. LeMond said Sunday that the threats continued after 2001. "Lance threatened me. He threatened my wife, my business, my life," LeMond told French...

Dutch investigators cleared Lance Armstrong of doping in the 1999 Tour de France on Wednesday, and blamed anti-doping authorities for misconduct in dealing with the American cyclist. A 132-page report recommended convening a tribunal to discuss possible legal and ethical violations by the World Anti-Doping Agency and to consider "appropriate sanctions to remedy the violations." The French sports daily L'Equipe reported in August that six of Armstrong's urine samples from 1999, when he won the first of his record seven-straight Tour titles, came back positive for the endurance-boosting hormone EPO when they were retested in 2004. Armstrong has repeatedly denied...

Independent Investigation Exonerates Legendary Cyclist (AP) AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Independent Dutch investigators cleared Lance Armstrong of doping in the 1999 Tour de France on Wednesday, and blamed anti-doping authorities for misconduct in dealing with the American cyclist. A 132-page report recommended convening a tribunal to discuss possible legal and ethical violations by the World Anti-Doping Agency and to consider "appropriate sanctions to remedy the violations." The French sports daily L'Equipe reported in August that six of Armstrong's urine samples from 1999, when he won the first of his record seven-straight Tour titles, came back positive for the endurance-boosting hormone EPO when...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Independent Dutch investigators cleared Lance Armstrong of doping in the 1999 Tour de France on Wednesday, and blamed anti-doping authorities for misconduct in dealing with the Austin, Texas, cyclist. More.....