Lance Armstrong: The World’s Greatest Champion by John Wilcockson (John Murray, £8.99) (From The Northern Echo)
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Lance Armstrong: The World’s Greatest Champion by John Wilcockson (John Murray, £8.99)
12:15pm Saturday 24th July 2010 in
ANYONE who can win cycling’s Tour de France seven times, beat the big “C” and also conquer the harshest critics, surely deserves this title.
He is a supreme competitor in everything he does, but the going was brutal at the top and, as Wilcockson reveals, it was three women – his mother, his exwife and a one-time fiancée – who helped him carry on when the going got too rough. He may not be a charmer, but he is certainly in a class of his own.
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