Now 37, she has dropped swimming and running and aims to compete in Beijing in 2008 only as a cyclist.
If that dilemma were not enough she was getting pressure from her team to abandon her studies in economics and train full-time as a cyclist.
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That's not to say the situation hasn't provoked a crisis of faith among many Livestrong supporters, especially those who were inspired by Armstrong's accomplishments as a cyclist and cancer survivor.
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Most are well behaved, but not all of them, and as a cyclist you do not know which ones will run out in front of you (it is about 1 in 10 which are off-lead that will do so I have found).
As a keen cyclist himself, Mr Barter said he also planned to spend a week next year riding the kinds of distances that Godwin would have done.
The visual humor is boosted by director Sammo Hung, who takes a guest turn as a nerdy cyclist continually bumping into the villains' truck.
Sir David left Ysgol Brynrefail, where he was a school friend was former Wales footballer Malcolm Allen, and moved to France to join his father as a professional cyclist.
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Marty was a big fan of Armstrong, and the Hopkins used the cyclist as a way of explaining to her children, who were 12 and 17, that it's possible to recover from cancer and accomplish many things.
Last month, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency banned Dr. Ferrari from working in Olympic sports for allegedly administering performance-enhancing drugs to cyclists when he was acting as a training consultant to cyclist Lance Armstrong during his Tour de France wins.
"As an avid cyclist and a cancer survivor who used cycling to aid in my recovery, I am disgusted by this man, " jackiero wrote.
In the balmy autumn sun light, I chatted with a cyclist dressed as a crocodile, saw people arriving horizontally on a collection of ornately decorated "recumbent" bikes, and gasped in awe as cyclists literally passed over head on raised, "stilted" bikes.
Kohler says Armstrong first found out about quercetin when it was being explored as a treatment for cancer patients and the cyclist was being treated for testicular cancer that had spread to his brain and lungs.
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She said she first came across doping by the team in 1998, when she said a man gave her a package that he described as testosterone for team cyclist George Hincapie.
She said she first came across doping by U.S. Postal in 1998, when she said a man gave her a package that he described as testosterone for team cyclist George Hincapie.
The good news is that the hills are not-that-high and your small group (maximum 14) will be accompanied by professional local cyclist-guide, as well as a support car for those too pooped to pump.
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Witnesses saw a cyclist, named at the Norwich inquest as Luke Howard, 22, push him over before cycling off.
The two men named in the suit are Rob Stutzman, who served as a deputy chief of staff for former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jonathan Wheeler, a chef and amateur cyclist.
His lawyer, Tim Herman, has described the Usada report as a "one-sided hatchet job" and the cyclist himself has accused the agency of offering "corrupt inducements" to other riders to speak out against him.
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Cyclist David Zabriskie raced the Tour de France as a near-vegan, supplementing with small amounts of fish.
"He was just lying there, the paramedics were pumping him and an ambulance had blocked off that area of the bridge, " said a passing cyclist who would only give his name as Max.
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No, my complaint concerns a different cyclist misbehavior, one that's maybe just as hazardous, and really has to end.
And a cyclist at Cambridge University's bicycle club described Mr Williams as "a shy chap" with a "peculiarly memorable laugh and smile".
Last week, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released the evidence it had compiled against Lance Armstrong, the embattled cyclist who has had his seven Tour de France victories stripped as a result of his performance-enhancing drug scandal.
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The fourth victim, a cyclist whose body was found near the car, has been named as 45-year-old Sylvain Mollier.
The New Year Honours turn out to be a double celebration for the Hoy family, with the cyclist's mother Carol Hoy made an MBE for her work as a specialist nurse at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh.
The cyclist known as Wiggo, whose long sideburns have led the British public to dub him a "Mod, " has risen rapidly to become a national hero.
The fourth victim, a cyclist whose body was found near the car after apparently stumbling across the attack, has been named as 45-year-old Sylvain Mollier.
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