After three years in retirement following his record-setting 7th Tour de France win -- which he accomplished after successfully battling the testicular cancer that almost killed him -- Lance Armstrong announced to the world on September 24, 2008 at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, that he would return to professional cycling to help promote a Global Cancer Campaign. Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal is Lance Armstrong's first-person photo-journal of his 2009 comeback season with the goal to take the LIVE STRONG message around the world. Heavily illustrated with color photos and text, Lance will take readers on a thrilling ride through his dramatic comeback year. Comeback 2.0 includes an introduction by Lance that frames his decision to return to competitive cycling followed by journal-like entries written through the course of his comeback season beginning with the Tour Down Under, followed by the Tour of California, his spectacular crash in the first stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon race in Spain that resulted in a broken collar bone, the Giro d'Italia, culminating in the Tour de France. The journal entries will accompany spectacular four-color photos, that offer breathtaking views of the race stages as well as intimate, behind-the-scenes shots. Renowned sports photographer and photojournalist Elizabeth Kreutz has been granted unparalleled access to Lance's day-to-day world in this, his most triumphant season.

蘭斯·阿姆斯特朗，連續7次獲得環法自行車賽冠軍，全職抗癌鬥士。他監督並管理著蘭斯·阿姆斯特朗基金會，這是一個非盈利性組織，意在幫助全世界的癌癥患者及癌癥幸存者。他曾與睾丸癌做過生死鬥爭，從癌癥中康復後他第一次贏得瞭環法自行車賽的冠軍，對於這項比賽，他總共得到過7次冠軍。在2008年，他被《時代周刊》雜誌評為全球100位最有影響力的人。他現居於得剋薩斯州的奧斯丁。