Lance Armstrong: Images of a Champion

This is a beautiful book that highlights Lance Armstrong's career in photographs and words. For everyone who considers Lance Armstrong a hero and best athlete in the world, this is the book for you. Highly recommended.

A fascinating book with wonderful photos. The negative reviews are from people who judge Lance's private life and may not have even read this wonderful book. If you are a Lance and/or Tour de France fan and you're visual, you'll love this book. Lance Armstrong is a champion as was Greg LeMond. These are athletes raising the bar and bringing us into a world we mightn't known without them. Viva la Lance. The prose tells one story, the photos speak volumes.

The image one sees of Lance Armstrong is that him bent over the handlebars, sunglasses, and streamlined helmet. Within the 208 pages of this book there are a hundred or more pictures of him hunched over the handlebars, but another hundred or more covering every aspect of how Lance races. These are spactacular photographs that capture not only the thrill of success, but the pain of struggling up a long hard climb. With the photographs are tributes from the people who know him best, business partners, family, his manager and fellow cyclists, coaches and other insiders in the cycling world who know him personally and professionally. This book brings the race and the champion together in a way I've never seen before. It certainly presents a more complete story than the short notes put on by television companies.

"Lance is convinced had he never had cancer he may never have won the oldest, longest, and hardest bicycle race on earth." says Linda Armstrong Kelly, Lance Armstrong's mother. In the book "Lance Armstrong: Images of a Champion" by Lance Armstrong, photographs by Graham Watson and forward by Robin Williams, we are given a first hand glimpse into the past twelve years of Lance Armstrong's life: his will to win and his will to live! This is a book with the most marvelous photographs, intimate photos of Lance, his family, his team and his colleagues in the Tour. Graham Watson first met Lance in 1992 and has been taking his pictures since that time. He truly understands what it takes to become a champion because he has followed Lance through out his races and challenges. This book has chapters broken up into years of the Tour and other races. The important people in Lance's life have a chance to speak on the written page, and we get to know him a little better. The book is dedicated to Jim Ochowicz, (OCH) his first team director. Those people who know Lance the best have written their memories of meeting him and how he has affected their lives. Lance discusses the year 1996, when he discovered he had testicular cancer- his chemotherapy and resultant weight loss that actually helped in his quest to become a great bicycle racer. In 1998 he decided to start the Lance Armstrong Foundation for Cancer. He has raised millions of dollars to assist in cancer research and to help those recover from cancer. A highlight is the new yellow LIVE STRONG wrist bands that the LA Foundation sells to raise money. This is a beautiful book that highlights Lance Armstrong's career in photographs and words. For everyone who considers Lance Armstrong a hero and best athlete in the world, this is the book for you. Highly recommended. prisrob

If your like me and like Lance and want a momento, buy the book. Its well worth the money; has lots of photo's you've probably never seen, each photo is captioned, and the book is also sprinkled with insights from Lance and his cycling hero's, mentor's and associates. Its not light and just cobbled together, its well rounded, insightful and visually rich.Its a book about Lance on a bike, and I love it.