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Unit 1 Breaking records Reading and writing FOCUS ON… Lance Armstrong Date of Birth: 8th September, 1971 Country: USA Lance Armstrong’s Guinness record for the fastest average speed at the Tour de France was set in 1999 with an average speed of 40. 27 km/hr. In his teens he was a triathlete but at 16 he began to concentrate on cycling. He was an amateur cyclist before the 1992 Olympic Games but turned professional after he had competed in the Games. In the following few years, he won numerous titles, and by 1996 he had become the world’s number one. However, in October 1996, he discovered he h