Looking For Lance. Poem by Michael Walker

Lance Armstrong's tumultuous, dramatic life so far is all on Google, which is the best place to read it.
To add a few of my own observations. Lance Armstrong came from a dysfunctional, low-income, single-parent family and his childhoodformed his maverick character. He never knew his biological father, who abandoned his mother, Linda. Linda remarried, to Terry Armstrong, who became Lance's stepfather and gave him his surname. As is often the case, Lance disliked his stepfather, and had a close bond with his mother. Linda divorced Terry after a few years, partly because of infidelity.
As a teenager, Lance competed in triathlons, winning twenty thousand dollars a year in them, and setting up his own Rolodex of sports business contacts. Even so, he chose cycling as his first sport, so swimming and ten-kilometre runs took a back seat from then on. (I loved competing in triathlons, at a much more modest level. I never placed highly, though, and did not win one dollar in prize money) .
The poem would be for or against Armstrong. I am now ambivalentabout him, having read David Walsh's book, 'Seven Deadly Sins' about drug taking on the Tour de France in the time of Armstrong's 7 wins,1999-2005. I studied myDVD 'The Armstrong Lie', by Alex Gibney(2007) , which was a revelation.Lance'sex-teammates- Floyd Landis, Steven Swart, Jonathan Vaughters-told the truth to the media about taking performance-enhancing drugs: E.P.O, testosterone patches, and blood transfusions. Armstrong, the US Postal team leader, virtually forced his team riders to take drugs if they wanted to be competitive.
I read my own books: 'It's Not about the Bike', by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins.
- 'Every Second Counts', by L. Armstrong with S. Jenkins.
-'Chasing Lance', by Martin Dugard.
-'Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong', by David Walsh.
I went looking for Lance in these books. David Walsh's is the most truthful and influential (for me)book of the above.

Quotations by Lance Armstrong: - 'For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities'.
- 'I had opened up a gap on the field. I knew that if I was going to be cured, that was the way it would go, with a big surging attack, just like in a race'.
- 'Pain is temporary. Quitting is forever'.
From 'It's Not About the Bike', by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins.