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Worksheets for "It's Not About the Bike" pp. 1-41
1. Identify the following characters: Lance Armstrong, Linda, Jim Hoyt, Terry
Armstrong, Jim Ochowicz, Chris MacCurdy, Lisa Shiels.|.
2. List some of the obstacles or difficulties Lance had to overcome as he grew up in Texas. List some of Lance's strengths.
List some of his weaknesses.
3. Define the following: dusted(29), big stink(29), peloton(47), septic throat(13), domestiques(46), flicking(54),
4.Who said it?
Why is it important? : "Your Past FORMS YOU, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT or not"(17). "Make every negative into a positive"(23). "Son, you never quit"(27). "Come on, son, you can do it" (29). "Look, Lance, if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you"(30). "Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive"(38). "Teammates are critical in cycling"(55) 'The truth is that cancer was the best thing that ever happened to me"(4) "If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience"(67)
5. Och is much like Halwu in "Desert Flower". Armstrong said, "Och not only tamed me; more important, he educated me"(59). What did Och teach Lance? How is this similar to what Halwu taught Waris?
6. List some obstacles Lance had to deal with once he was diagnosed with cancer?
7. Provide examples that describe Lance in the following ways: Cancer survivor, husband, father, son, and human being.
Lance Armstrong
http://www.letour.fr/ (Tour de france)
http://www.lancearmstrong.com
http://www.acor.org/diseases/TC/dictionary.html (Testicular cancer)
http://www.laf.org/ (Lance Armstrong Foundation)
http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages/3-3-2000/text/einhorn.htm (Lawrence Einhorn)
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/cycling/1999/tour_de_france/news/1999/07/1
4/armstrong_doctor/ (Lawrence Einhorn)
http://www.ohsu.edu/som-hemonc/faculty/nicholsc.shtml (Craig Nichols)
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