It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life - Hardcover

Texto en inglés. Tapa dura con sobrecubierta de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Perfecto estado de conservación. In October 1996, one of the cycling world’s most precocious talents, Lance Armstrong, was diagnosed with stage four testicular cancer. When lesions then appeared on his brain and in his lungs the doctors gave him a 40% chance of survival. The only treatment was huge doses of chemotherapy. It was a cruel and physically crippling medical strategy but one to which his body responded well and, incredibly, in February 1997 Armstrong was discharged. Once out of hospital Lance Armstrong had to rebuild his life. His first instinct was to get back on his bike. But the decision was a tough one. He was dropped by his sponsors, Codifis, and when he finally signed up with the US Postal Team and started racing competitively again he found he was emotionally and physically unable to cope. But encouraged by his friends and wife he slowly rediscovered his self-belief and set himself a target - to ride, and ride competitively again, within two years. Just sixteen months later he entered the 1999 Tour de France. To complete it at all was remarkable,but taking part was not enough for Lance Armstrong. He cycled to win, and did it in spectacular style. He is the first Tour winner to take four stages in the race in fifteen years and the first to take both a mountain and time trial in over a decade. And, he won it in the fastest ever time. This is an awe-inspiring story of immense courage and will. It is a great sporting story but, more than that, this is a story about life and how to live it.