Livestrong Has a New Champion: Indy 500 Winner ‘Captain America’

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Livestrong Has a New Champion: Indy 500 Winner ‘Captain America’
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The Livestrong Foundation gained a badly needed champion over the weekend when Ryan Hunter-Reay — the hard-charging driver nicknamed “Captain America” — won his first Indianapolis 500 in jaw-dropping fashion.

The cancer-patient crusading foundation suffered a huge PR blow in 2012, when founder and board chairman Lance Armstrong resigned after being stripped of his Tour de France victories (http://mashable.com/2012/08/23/lance-armstrong-banned-cycling/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) for doping. The erstwhile Lance Armstrong Foundation rebranded as Livestrong, and said it was “charting a strong, independent course forward,” but the damage was done: Nike cut ties, and the organization was left without a high-profile face. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/27/livestrong-ryan-hunter-reay-indy-500-captain-america/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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