Ray William Johnson
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Now, here's where he finally starts to screw up.
As time goes on, Lance keeps winning.
Big races, small races, and the more he wins, the more people start to get suspicious.
Like, how could a man go through multiple rounds of chemotherapy and then go on to win the Tour de France multiple times in a row?
It just doesn't make sense.
And journalists and other people in the business, they start accusing him of doping.
But of course, Lance denies everything.
He says, I never did drugs.
I'm all natty.
And to protect his reputation, he starts aggressively suing people and entities who accuse him of using performance enhancing drugs.
And this actually works.
He wins some of these lawsuits and some of the people settle with him out of court by paying him a lot of money.
Meanwhile, Lance keeps racing and he keeps winning.
He wins Tour de France again in 2002, then again in 2003, then again in 2004, then again in 2005.
He wins seven times in a row before he finally decides it's time to retire.
But then 2006 hits and something unexpected happens because this guy enters the story.
Floyd.
See, Floyd, he's a cyclist and he's one of Lance's former teammates.
So in 2006, Floyd races in the Tour de France and he actually wins.
In fact, he has an incredible win.