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

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 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...