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.
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