Cycling: United States: Lance Armstrong

That which does not kill Lance Armstrong only serves to give NBC more fodder. Using John Tesh music and a Cybill Shepherd lens, the network could have filmed a whole docudrama to tell the story of cyclist Armstrong, who came back from testicular cancer to win the Tour de France twice--only to be smacked down by a car on a lonely French road just weeks before these Olympics. He fractured a vertebra in his neck that day. "We were in the middle of nowhere," he said. "The next car to come by was my wife an hour and a half later."...

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