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Watch Lance’s podium speech.

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

(Composed by Francis Scott Key, “In Defense of Fort McHenry”, September 20, 1814.)

Hear it here.

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He may look like the rest of us but, his heart is 33 percent bigger than average (and beats 32 times a minute at rest), and his lungs can consume twice as much oxygen as most people’s.

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When Lance Armstrong claimed his first yellow jersey on 3 July 1999 he gave millions of people hope. At the age of 27 the all-American champion proved there was life after cancer. (Get the whole story at the OLN website)

Eighty-seven percent of sports fans between the ages of 12 and 64 know who he is, and of those, 33 percent call him their favorite athlete.
–according to a survey conducted in March by Marketing Evaluations Inc.