Cybersam's Blog - Lance Won 7th and Rode into Retirement

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Lance Won 7th and Rode into Retirement

Lance Armstrong did again. Today, Lance rode into retirement with a 7th consecutive win in the Tour de France. His run of success will go down in the sports annals as arguably one of the greatest sport achievement. Diagnosed with a terminal cancer and given less than a 50-50 chance of survival, he miraculously recovered and came back to win his first Tour de France title in 1999 and he was been winning the Tour every year since then. Very few athletes have attained the dominance and consistency as those of Lance Armstrong.

As I recall from a recent ESPN feature on Lance, he was genetically gifted with a 10% bigger than average heart and through training he enlarged his heart to 30%. According to a conversation with Yoav last Friday, Lance has a 35 heartbeats per minute (bpm) resting and 200 bpm at his peak. Wow!!! He is a freak of nature. ;-) Nonetheless, congratulations to Lance on your win today and may your achievements inspire people, including me, in years to come.

7/24/2005 1:17:11 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) Comments [3] Sports

7/24/2005 1:41:31 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Congrats on using surely and arguably in one sentence ;) Joking aside, Lance is the man. It's sad to watch him go, but nice that he gets to retire at the top of the game. The resting heart rate and other stats are from his site: scroll down at a bit at http://www.lancearmstrong.com/lance/online2.nsf/html/FAQ and you'll see them.

Yoav Shapira |yoavsAT NOSPAMcomputer dot org

7/24/2005 2:32:59 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Not proofreading my writing is downfall. Duly noted. :-)

Cybersam

7/24/2005 2:34:04 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Yeah, is it cheating if I corrected my original blog entry after reading a comment?

Cybersam