Lance Armstrong is shown at his garage at his home in Austin, Texas, on Monday, March 17, 1997. Armstrong was supposed to be in Italy that week, riding with his new French cycling team as one of the favorites to win the Milan-San Remo 200-mile road race on Saturday. That was before a diagnosis of testicular cancer last October thrust America's premier cyclist into the race of his life at age 25.
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