Lance Armstrong won a record seven consecutive Tour de France titles before being stripped of them following doping accusations in 2012 Emily Krauser is a contributing writer at PEOPLE.

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(CNN) — Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, said Shakespeare’s Henry IV, but the king of cycling, Lance Armstrong, wasn’t content with his athletic garland, he had the rest of us ...