It's not about the bike : my journey back to life

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Title:

Author:

Armstrong, Lance.

ISBN:

9780224060875

Personal Author:

Armstrong, Lance.

Publication Information:

London : Yellow Jersey, 2001.

Physical Description:

275 pages, [16] pages of plates, portraits ; 20 cm

General Note:

Originally published: 2000.

Contents:

1. Before and after -- 2. The start line -- 3. I don't check my mother at the door -- 4. Bad to worse -- 5. Conversations with cancer -- 6. Chemo -- 7. Kik -- 8. Survivorship -- 9. The Tour [de France] -- 10. The cereal box -- Postscript: Encore.

Abstract:

In 1996, 24-year-old Lance Armstrong was ranked number one cyclist in the world, but that October, tests revealed that advanced testicular cancer had spread to his lungs and brain. In this book, he reveals his journey from a 20% chance of survival, to victory in the 1999 Tour de France.

Personal Subject:

Armstrong, Lance.

Subject Term:

Testis -- Cancer -- Popular works.

Cyclists -- United States -- Biography.

Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.

Added Author:

Jenkins, Sally.

Copies:

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Summary

It's Not About the Bike was first published in 2000. Detailing Lance Armstrong's battle with life-threatening testicular cancer and his return to professional cycling, it became a huge bestseller, appealing to fans of cycling as well as cancer survivors inspired by his full and dramatic recovery.

Dogged by suspicion and allegations of doping throughout his career, in January 2013 in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong admitted to having taken performance enhancing drugs during all seven of the Tours de France in which he competed. The UCI, the world governing body for cycling, stripped him of his titles.