Books with title Lance Armstrong: A Biography

Lance Armstrong has thrived, despite adversity since the moment he was born on September 18,1971, to a single mom in Dallas,Texas. Linda Mooneyham was a proud, pretty, and determined 17-year-old who dropped out of high school to care for her son. People told Linda that Lance would never amount to anything, but Linda believed differently. She believed in turning every obstacle into an opportunity and she taught her son to do the same. This is the determined story of an athlete who could have been beaten down by the dreaded disease cancer. Instead he chose to fight for his life and returned to his first love of cycling to win the Tour de France six times.

Known to young readers, booksellers and librarians around the world, the Champion Sports Biography Series captures the life story of popular atheletes both today and the colorful history of sport. Not limited to simply male, big league sporting figures, the Champion Series also focuses on top female athletes (the Williams sisters for example) and athletes who`s appeal is international (Michael Schumacher or Ronaldo). Written in an accurate yet exciting narrative style, these books are ideal young adult readers in their vocabulary and sentence structure levels of difficulty.

In Lance Armstrong (Bilingual Reading from English to Chinese), Tour de France that began in 1903 is the oldest and most important cycling event around the world, and it is also one of the most difficult sports. The cycling race is composed of 21 stages, which lasts for 3 weeks and spans 3200 kilometers in total. On the July 24th, 2005, when the final stage was completed, the American rider Lance Armstrong won the game and this was the seventh times for Armstrong to get the championship in Tour de France. This biography introduces the legendary rider in terms of his unhappy childhood, growing pains, fights against the cancer and also his arduous experience of winning seven consecutive Tour de France.