After an amazing time at RAGBRAI I needed to get to France for the final 2 stages of the Tour. I’d been following the race all week from the TV in the LIVESTRONG school bus that my good friend / aerodynamic guru Steve Hed put together.

As many of you know, the race was so dramatic for so many reasons this year – some good and some not so good – but at the end of the day the Discovery Channel riders had two men in the top three; Alberto Contador in the lead and Levi Leipheimer less than a minute back.

It…

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As Lance, Doug and Team LIVESTRONG continue across Iowa, I just wanted to let you know that Lance will be on MSNBC’s Hardball tonight talking about the LIVESTRONG Presidential Cancer Forum.

Find more information on Hardball.

If you are looking for daily updates from Ragbrai… make sure you check out Doug’s blog.

Jeff

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Lance sent the email below and asked me to put it up on his blog. Day 2 Ragbrai updates tomorrow.

I wanted to make sure I got a couple of quick notes up today.

Friend of the LAF Brian Garofalo was injured in a bicycling accident recently. I wanted to let Brian and his family and friends know that we are thinking of him as we are pedaling across Iowa.

I also blogged a while back about Jon Lester, a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox who was diagnosed with cancer about a year ago. Well Jon has fought back and tonight will…

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Hey Everyone -

This week Doug, Lance and 150 members of Team LIVESTRONG are riding across Iowa.  They are participating in an event called Ragbrai, which is a week long bike ride across the state of Iowa.  If you have not heard of it before – click the link and check it out. It is a pretty amazing event.

All of them are participating this week to raise money and awareness for the LAF as well as to spread the word of the LIVESTRONG Army – cancer must become a national priority. To that end members of Team LIVESTRONG have raised over $300,000 to date…

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All of you have heard the numbers √Ǭ≠ you probably have them memorized by now. 1.3 million Americans diagnosed with cancer every year, 560,000 American lives lost to the disease and the number one killer of Americans under the age of 85. Yet despite all of that cancer has still not found it’s way into the national dialogue √Ǭ≠ until now.

Today we announced the LIVESTRONG Presidential Cancer Forum. This is our opportunity to push the cancer question into the national dialogue and I hope you will join us. If you can attend √Ǭ≠ tickets are free and we would love to…

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