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Hero Profile: Lance Armstrong
Here is a profile of cyclist Lance Armstrong, with comments and my rating on the five characteristics of a sporting hero. You can also give your rating for Lance Armstrong using the same criteria.
| rating | ||
|---|---|---|
| skill | Lance has performed well in his sport over a long period and won the Tour de France a unprecedented seven times (between 1999-2005). To do so requires exceptional skill and physical attributes, but also a very strong team. | 4 |
| character | He comes across as arrogant to many people. He has been strongly accused of drug use, with some evidence, which has of course been denied (not always convincingly). | 2 |
| family | He has not had a good record with relationships. His biological father moved out when he was a baby. When he was three years old, his mother remarried a man named Terry Armstrong. His mother has married and divorced three times. He was married to Kristin Richard, and they have three children. After Lance and Kristin divorced, Lance had a short engagement with singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow. His current relationship is with Anna Hansen, with whom he has a son born in June 2009. | 1.5 |
| charity work | In 1997, Armstrong founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which supports people affected by cancer. | 5 |
| popular culture | Despite dominating his chosen sport, cycling is not a mainstream sport in his home country, so has not reached the potential he would have if he played a major sport in the US. Making a successful comeback after beating cancer has aligned him with a big proportion of society. | 3 |
| hero rating | Despite allegations of drug taking, he is a hero to many cancer sufferers and others who have come back from adversity | 62% |
Who else thinks Lance Armstrong is a Hero?
- Lance Armstrong is Justin Metz's hero because on October 2, 1996, at age 25, Armstrong was diagnosed with stage three testicular cancer. The cancer had spread to his lungs, abdomen and brain. However, he did not give up.In his comeback was one he spent training in the very challenging Appalachian terrain. He then won the Tour de France a record-breaking seven consecutive years, from 1999 to 2005.
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- Details about the 5 Criteria that makes a sporting hero
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