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Lance Armstrong denies he is dead (source Instagram).JPGVideo: Lance Armstrong: "Rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated"
Lance Armstrong yesterday took to Instagram to refute a report published on Wednesday on a fake news site that he had died.
In a short video, he holds up a smartphone showing an article headlined "BREAKING NEWS: Road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong has died" with the shot zooming out to show Armstrong, alive and well, shaking his head.
The words attributed to Mark Twain by Armstrong, banned from cycling for life in 2012 for doping and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, are in fact a misquote.
The author actually said, "The report of my death was an exaggeration," his words published in the New York Journal on 2 June 1897. Rumours that Twain, who was visiting London at the time, had died had been circulating in the United States for several days.
Twain himself took up cycling in his forties, and in his 1884 essay, Taming The Bicycle, wrote: "Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live."
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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" The words attributed to Mark Twain by Armstrong, banned from cycling for life in 2012 for doping and stripped of his seven Tour de France title"
I didn't realise Mark Twain was a doper...!
Why does a little voice in my head tell me that Lance probably started the story himself just to keep his name in the headlines?
Good lord: you aren't implying that mr Armstrong is a faded star but a rampant self-publicist, desperate for attention at any price? Shurely shome mistake.
It was a joke mate.
That'll be £200 please Mr Armstrong. Oh and 6 points on your licence.
Unless of course he's pulled up in a car park in Texas...