The timeline of Lance Armstrong's downfall from stardom.

Eddy Merckx, Mathieu Van Der Poel, Greg LeMond, Mark Cavendish, and Lance Armstrong are among the most famous road cyclist in the history of the sport.

Lance Armstrong is remembered a bit differently than the other cyclist because of of his history of winning but also lying. In this blog post I have made a timeline of Lance Armstrong's whole career from his historic rise to stardom all the way to his fall from grace.

August 1992: Lance Armstrong races for his frist time professionally for the Motorola team in the Clásica de San Sebastián. 

April 1996: Lance Armstrong Armstrong becomes the first American to win the La Flèche Wallonne. He participates in the 1996 Olympic Games, finishing sixth in the time trial and 12th in the road race. 

October 1996: Lance Armstrong is diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer that had also spread to his lymph nodes, lungs, brain and abdomen. 

December 1996: Lance Armstrong undergoes his final chemotherapy treatment.

March 1998: Lance Armstrong returns to professional cycling. 

July 1999: Lance wins his first Tour De France after beating cancer. 

July 2000: Lance wins his second Tour De France.

July 2001: Lance wins his third Tour De France in a row.

July 2002: Lance wins his fourth Tour De France in a row.

July 2003: Lance wins his fifth Tour De France in a row.

July 2004: Lance wins his sixth Tour De France in a row. 

July 2005: Lance Armstrong wins his seventh Tour De France in a row; he also retires from professional cycling at age 33. 

August 2005: French newspaper L'Equipe reports blood samples retested from a 1999 race show evidence of blood doping that year, but Armstrong again denies the allegations.

January 2009: Lance Armstrong announces his return to professional cycling. He joins the RadioShack team. His intentions to again compete in the 2010 Tour de France.

January 2010: Lance Armstrong makes his 2010 race debut, finishing 25th out of 127 in the Tour Down Under. 

During this same time a American cyclist Floyd Landis, who was Armstrong's teammate for two years and won the 2006 Tour De France. Landis admits he used performance-enhancing drugs. In emails to U.S. and European cycling officials, Landis says he began doping in 2002.

February 2011: Armstrong again announces his retirement from competitive cycling in February, at age 39, to focus on family and his cancer foundation. Soon after news broke of Armstrong’s Two other U.S. Postal team members come forward acknowledging their own performance enhancing drug use and further implicating Armstrong.

February 2012: Federal prosecutors drop their criminal investigation against Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Service team in February, with no charges being filed. 

June 2012: The United States Anti-Doping Agency accuses Armstrong of doping and trafficking of drugs. The United States Anti-Doping Agency formally charges him with using, possessing and trafficking banned substances. The United States Anti-Doping Agency also recommends a lifetime ban for Armstrong. 

January 2013: Lance Armstrong sits down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey in where he admits his use of performance enhancing drugs in professional cycling from the years of 1999 to 2005.