Lance Armstrong is an American road-racing cyclist; Lance has won the tour de France a record breaking 7 consecutive times. Armstrong met Kristin Richard in June 1997. They married in May 1 1998 and had three children, Luke David and twins Isabelle Rose and Grace Elisabeth. The couple later filed for divorce
Born on September 18, 1971, in Plano, Texas, his mother, Linda, in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas, raised Lance Armstrong; Armstrong was athletic from an early age. He began running and swimming at 10 years old and took up competitive cycling and triathlons
At 16, Armstrong began competing as a triathlete and was a national sprint-course triathlon champion in 1989 and 1990. In 1989 the U.S Olympic development champion road race, with the best time of any American since 1976.
Soon, Armstrong chose to focus on cycling, his strongest event as well as his favourite. During his senior year in high school, the U.S Olympic development team invited him to train with them in Colorado Springs. He left high school temporarily to do so, but later took private classes and received his high school diploma in 1989. The following summer, he qualified for the 1990 junior world team and placed 11th in the world championship road race, with the best time of any American since 1976. That same beat, he became the U.S national amateur champion and beat out many professional cyclists to win two major races, the first union grand prix and he thrift drug classic.
Armstrong began dating singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow in late 2003. The couple announced their engagement in September 2005 and their split in February 2006. During the years 2006-2007, lance dated a few women each with brief 2-4 month long relationships, including, Kate Hudson, Ivanka Trump, Ashley Olsen, Tory Burch and Danielle Overgaag.
For much of his career, Lance faced allegations of doping. Armstrong denied all allegations until January 2013 often claiming that he never had