Every Second Counts (book)

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Every Second Counts
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Author Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins
LanguageEnglish
Genre Autobiography
PublisherThe Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group
Publication date
October 7, 2003
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback), Audio CD, Audio cassette, Audio download
Pages246 pp (Hardcover edition)
ISBN 0-385-50871-9 (Hardcover edition)
OCLC 52639201
796.6/2/092 B 22
LC Class GV1051.A76 A3 2003b
Preceded by It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life  

Every Second Counts is a 2003 autobiography by cyclist Lance Armstrong written in collaboration with sports writer and columnist Sally Jenkins. It is a follow-up to Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life which was also written with Sally Jenkins. The narrative begins from after Armstrong's first Tour de France win in 1999 and continues up until his fifth win in 2003. The authenticity of the tale and Armstrong's anti-doping stance described in the work was challenged by a report from USADA in 2012, [1] and in 2013 Armstrong confessed that he had used doping in that period. [2]

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References

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  2. "Full Transcript: Lance Armstrong on Oprah" . Retrieved 21 July 2013.

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