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For years, he denied involvement in doping. Between 20, he raced with Team Radio Shack, and retired for a second time in 2011.Īrmstrong became the subject of doping allegations after he won the 1999 Tour de France. Armstrong retired from racing at the end of the 2005 Tour de France, but returned to competitive cycling with the Astana team in January 2009, finishing third in the 2009 Tour de France later that year. Returning to cycling in 1998, Armstrong was a member of the US Postal/Discovery team between 19 when he won his seven Tour de France titles. After his recovery, he founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation (now the Livestrong Foundation) to assist other cancer survivors. In 1996, he was diagnosed with a potentially fatal metastatic testicular cancer. He had success between 19 with the World Championship in 1993, the Clásica de San Sebastián in 1995, Tour DuPont in 19, and a handful of stage victories in Europe, including stage 8 of the 1993 Tour de France and stage 18 of the 1995 Tour de France.
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In 1992, he began his career as a professional cyclist with the Motorola team. He achieved international fame for winning the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of his titles after an investigation found he used performance-enhancing drugs over his career.Īt age 16, Armstrong began competing as a triathlete and was a national sprint-course triathlon champion in 19. Stewart-Haas Racing said Gibson plans to be at New Hampshire Motor Speedway for Sunday’s race.Lance Edward Armstrong ( né Gunderson born September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road racing cyclist. He posted Wednesday on Facebook he was home and resting a day after the procedure. Tony Gibson, Kurt Busch’s crew chief, had an emergency appendectomy.
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He had to get back onto the racing surface, and when he tried, Harvick’s car was right there.Ī full day later, both drivers likely think they could have done something differently. They were third and fourth on a restart, and a push from Joey Logano had shoved Johnson to the apron of the track. Johnson knew this the moment their cars touched around the midway point of the opening race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
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The instigator of the Sprint Cup Series, the driver who has never backed down from anyone or any situation dating all the way back to his roller-coaster 2001 debut season, will not go down quietly. He shoved Johnson in the chest with a closed fist and had to be restrained from going after him again following a devastating performance last weekend at Chicagoland Speedway. So that eased my mind going into the day.”įast forward to this week, when Harvick’s chances at winning a second consecutive title are shaky and his relationship with Johnson is suddenly strained. You pull the data up, and I was making some pretty huge mistakes. “He’d show up in the trailer after every practice and called and texted to Rodney and myself.

“I felt like I was racing - practicing a little more amped than I probably needed to be, and Jimmie Johnson was a huge help,” Harvick said after his win. After Harvick hoisted that championship trophy at the end of last season, he took time to credit the help he and crew chief Rodney Childers received from Johnson the entire weekend leading into the title-deciding final race. When Johnson, eliminated from contention last November from winning a seventh championship, had a chance to help Harvick win his first Sprint Cup title, he opened up his notebook and turned into one of Harvick’s most important weapons. They always recognized the paths in their careers. They made it to Cup racing, becoming two of the biggest names in NASCAR along the way.
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They have known each other since the early days of their careers, which began in California before the two crossed the country to North Carolina to take a crack at making it in NASCAR.īroke and chasing big dreams, the two drivers born less than three months and 250 miles apart spent many a night crashing on a couch at Ron Hornaday Jr.’s house as they scratched and clawed for a break. Kevin Harvick and Jimmie Johnson are not enemies.
