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July 25, 2003
The Great Survivor
Armstrong's success in recent times, five consecutive Tour De France victories, has been the stuff of legend and his philosophy about it is simple:
"What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was -- in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it."
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