Retirement 2.0

The man responsible for leaving perhaps the biggest impact on cycling that the sport has ever seen is finally retiring. His strong career included seven consecutive Tour de France wins and success in many other events throughout his years. He retired once before, but came out of retirement with hopes of earning an eighth title. He finished his next two races 3rd and then 23rd respectively, failing to acquire another victory.

Armstrong's road to his seven major titles was long and plagued with misfortune. Before winning his first Tour de France race, he had to overcome testicular cancer. He has also faced many accusations of using performance enhancing drugs, coming away clean after every drug test.

In this interview announcing his retirement, he even had a shout out to J-Beibs! He was quoted saying, "Never say never... Just kidding."

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Here is the link to the Wall Street Journal article:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/02/16/sports/cycling/AP-CYC-Armstrong-Retirement.html?ref=global

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