Its Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
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In 1996, he had been diagnosed with testicular cancer, which spread to his lungs, abdomen and brain, and was only
Its Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life given a 40 percent chance of living. A subsequent autobiographical instalment, entitled Every Second Counts and also with Sally Jenkins
bike as co-author, continues the narrative until his 2003 Tour victory.
It Its Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year
Trailer bike award in 2000.
It s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life is in the process of being made into a movie to be released in the next few years.
. Its Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
It s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life is a 2000 autobiographical book by cyclist Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins.
The book was written shortly after Armstrong had won the 1999 Tour de France: he went on to win it six further times in successive years, Its Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life establishing a record. This disrupted his career, but his success on his return prompted elements in the media to accuse him of doping.
The book covers his story from childhood to the 1999 Tour, and the subsequent birth of his first child.
