Lance Armstrong gives $500,000 to relief effort (to help cancer victims)

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Lance gives $500,000 to relief effort

Armstrong earmarks money to help displaced cancer victims get treatment

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9191241/

AUSTIN, Texas - Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and his namesake cancer survivorship foundation will donate $500,000 to help cancer victims displaced by Hurricane Katrina get treatment.

Armstrong said Saturday he expects the money will be used to help transport cancer patients to hospitals and cancer centers where they can continue to get treatment. He said more money could be donated in the future.

“If you’ve started treatment and you miss a week or two weeks, it’s potentially fatal,” Armstrong said. “For me and the foundation, we just looked at that and asked not just what can we do, but how does it fit into our mission?”

Armstrong said the money would be sent to the hospitals and cancer centers, which would then arrange for transportation for patients. Armstrong said he’s been following the hurricane crisis on television and in newspapers. “It just seems like help was late to come there,” he said.

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1. You know, Lance had a chance to save the USA a couple of weeks ago

on his photo op bike ride with the great pretender.
Seeing how chimpo can barely ride a bike, look out for that cliff ... oh. damn!