Lance Armstrong is an American professional road racing cyclist best known for dominating the Tour de France consecutively between 1999 and 2005—titles subsequently stripped on account of doping. Earlier on, he had also attained the 1993 World Championship, stages at various Grand Tours, and made an astonishingly spectacular return to cycling after battling metastatic testicular cancer in 1996.
Lance Armstrong became an international symbol of perseverance and motivated millions through his Livestrong Foundation by bringing enormous awareness and dollars to cancer research. In 2012, an investigation conducted by the USADA exposed his participation in one of the most sophisticated conspiracies in sports history. Armstrong was banned for his lifetime and his titles were taken away from him. The legacy of Lance Armstrong is now controversial: one of heroism previously for his sporting victory and battle against cancer, and now also remembered for lies and the downfall of an era in professional cycling.
