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Furman student remembers photo


Last updated October 30, 2012

By Furman News

When Furman student Samuel Douglas was 11 years old, he was part of a famous photo where he ran alongside Lance Armstrong during a bike race in Georgia. The photo, which appeared on the front page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and in Sports Illustrated, had a prominent place on the desk of Journal-Constitution political columnist Jim Galloway. But when the recent revelations about Armstrong made Galloway publicly question the truthfulness of the photo, Douglas, a sophomore who is president of the Cycling Club at Furman, urged the columnist to hang onto it.

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