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Lance Amstrong is a professional American ex-cyclist who was born on 8^th September 1871, in Texas. When he was just two, her father left home, so he grew up with his mother and her boyfriend. Although he started in the world of sport practicing swimming, he got involved in cycling at the age of 13.

In 1992 he was already a professional cyclist. Belonging to Motorola team, he won several races and he even became one of the youngest cyclists in winning the World Championship.Unfortunately, in 1996, a cancer was detected to him, and his chance of survival was lower than 50%. However, he was treated with quimiotherapy for a hard year and survived. After thinking about retiring of cycling, he joined US postal team in 1998 and in the following five years, he focused his attention on winning the Tour of France.

Nowadays, Lance is recognized for having managed to win this competition seven times before his retirement in 2005. He lives in Texas and in Girona with his family. His continued collaboration to fight against cancer with the raising of his own charity makes him to be considered one of most admirable cyclist of the whole history.

The person I most admire: Deryck Whibley

Deryck Jason Whibley, who was born in Scarborough on 21 March 1980, is a Canadian singer, guitar player and producer. He had a very difficult childhood because he never met his father and he had to be brought up by his mother, who was a teenager back then. Nevertheless, he soon discovered that he was musically gifted.

At the age of thirteen he already had his first band, which was a hip hop trio. Afterwards, he learnt to play the guitar and went through some rock groups until he created Sum 41 in 1999. Deryck and his band played punk/rock worldwide and sold more than three million copies of his first studio album ,“All Killer, No Filler”, back in 2001. He continued with his professional career and, in 2006, he married the pop star Avril Lavigne. He produced her last album, which was very successful and also sold millions of copies.

Nowadays, Deryck keeps playing in Sum 41 and touring all over the world. More over, they have released their sixth studio album this month, which is called “Screaming Bloody Murder”, though he got divorced lately and he went through a serious crisis. I admire Deryck’s musical talent the most, but I also value his determination and how he overcame his problems when he was a child.

Lance Armstrong, who is considered one of the best cyclists of the cycling history, was born in Texas on 8 September and was brought up by his mother. Although at the age of twelve he joined a swimming team, some years later when he won a triathlon he found out the discipline in which he actually highlighted: racing cycling.

In his thirties he won seven consecutive times the Tour de France, so that was the fact that gave him all his fame. In addition, he became more popular for being able to achieve that record after having survived a cancer. This was the reason that led him to set up a cancer charity: Lance Armstrong Foundation, which has been raised up to $50 million.

Nowadays, Armstrong is living in Texas and in Girona, as he’s just retired from cycling. What I most admire about him is his self-improvement aptitude, as well as his capacity for making real all his passions and desires and for being able of achieving his objectives.

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