People forget what a great swimmer Armstrong was as a youth before he ever got involved in triathlon around age 15. That feel for the water and basic technique doesn't go away, which is why he was able to resume training and come out of the water here within seconds of the lead.
@@squacamole3599 Wasn't a joke you fucking idiot. No sarcasm, just a straight forward response. I'm utterly unimpressed by any of Lance's achievements.
@@mintheman7 certainly wouldn’t argue he was a decent honest person and could say at that time he was the best thief in a den of thieves but wow was it exiting to watch .
Truth is ALL the elite competitors during his career were. Don't do it, be very average or not even be able to be competitive at all. People are fooling themselves if they think otherwise. At the end of the day it's the entertainment field and boy did he entertain! Now his vicious attacks on those that questioned him is another conversation. Beyond ugly.
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever" Lance Armstrong has had more challenges and faced more difficulties, than most people. And with his pending and imminent court case ruling it doesn't look like these adversities will cease soon. Lance Armstrong is a fighter, a survivor a champion, a inspiration while at the same time he is still a very human hero. Isextraordinary Information with Inspiration
He is also someone who tried to ruin people's personal and professional lives if they chose to tell the truth about him. He may be a great athlete but he is NO hero.
It is easy to forget how talented and driven this guy is, even at 16 Lance was beating 25 and 30 year old pro triathletes. He was unlucky to be in an era of cycling where everyone doped, it overshadowed how good he really was because people think that he won only because he cheated. If everyone including lance were clean he still would have won and people that know pro cycling well all admit that Lance is still an all time great if not the greatest of all time.
Uh... no. I know pro-cycling plenty well and I do not consider Armstrong either great in any way--aside from perhaps the greatest cock-sucking douchebag cheating pro cyclist in the history of the sport. He is a quintessential narcissist, a liar, a bully, a fraud, a thief. He's a legend alright... but the legend is about how NOT to act as a professional athlete... or as a human being. He didn't cheat to win just once... he did it over and over and over again--robbing the Tour de France of SEVEN years of winners. That scar will be on the sport forever.
I mostly agree, but I doubt he would still win without doping. The reason is his natural red blood cells level was low which made him a hyper responder to blood doping. Blood doping gave him a bigger advantage than the others
Lance will always be an inspiration to me... He's a fighter... He's a champion... No governing body will be able to take that away from him in my mind...
Just forgetting all the drugs stuff for a minute.... he's an amazing athlete. To be fair his skills on the bike are so good that as long as he can swim a bit and put one foot in front of the other he's in with a good chance of winning a triathlon like this. Respect.
I agree with you 💯 ! back in the day when I used to compete in triathlons I was the worst swimmer finished sooo slow was just horrible. I was such a strong biker that for 1hr I would do nothing but pass riders. On the run I could just keep with the pack at best. Would always finish top 10 in my age. Biking portion is huuuuge you are right 👍
Livestrong is a positive message. It's personal. It's the day to day. This is the true gift of Lance Armstrong. He is not responsible for how you play the game or the expectations required of the endorsers or the bar that the sport itself raises on each individual athlete. The blame should be shared by all.
I used to be a die hard fan of Lance. Not anymore. I don't talk down on him as I don't have the right to do so. When he was doping, all the other top riders were on drugs so it was a level playing field in that respect. But the biggest difference is that Lance really did wage a brutal war on anyone who questioned his honesty. Many of those people were no saints either and were just looking for their 15 minutes of fame by trying to pull Lance down, I'll give you that. But still it was a very nasty business from him indeed, he pretty much tried everything to ruin those people's lives. I still regard him as an exceptionally talented and amazing athlete, nobody in their right minds would question that. I just lost my respect for him as a decent human being.
Richard Serban Good summary. I would add that when a lie has gotten as big as it did (almost considered a god amongst men, fighting cancer, livestrong etc) it becomes almost impossible to tell the whole truth, and you would do almost anything in order to maintain the lie. Cant say most men wouldn't have done the same, although it takes a "sociopathic" personality to get to that stage in the first place.
Carbon, I get what you are saying, but as TheSteninbitt wrote, he was a sociopath who tried to stop his lie from getting out, so he actively tried to bully those who were trying to tell the truth. I cant say who started their side first, Lance being a bully and trying to destroy lives or those who were telling their story, but the thing of it is, he was in the wrong, so he should have just admitted it and used "EVERYONE was doping" as an argument. I already knew that everyone was, so I would have supported him, and other people like me, if he would have simply said "Yeah, you got me. I doped like a MFer, and this is how I did it."
Forgive and forget, he just was doing what all his friends in cycling were doing. he is still a great athlete, and also triathlon was his second sport so he is just going back into his roots.
I could watch Armstrongs form on the bike all day. Wild cadance yet maximum efficiency, just poetry in motion. Really was too bad we saw him complete a full IM in Nice or somewhere else. I wanted to see his bike time and compare it to how tired he would look and show on the run afterwards, if nothing else then for science.
@@alvmusic4402 and I'm thankful that the public opinion of people is not the final judgement.. you are all merciless and that's why forgiveness that matters is not up to you or determined by you. You can't handle such things. You don't have the temperance or intelligence.
This man was a hero of mine. He has let me down badly. That said, I believe he did WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN. WIN. WIN. This is the mindset of a champion, like it or not.
@@thomaskeane6076 apparently all champions dope though. Big corp wants money. Great achievements bring money. The hunt on dope is i believe strict but not that strict for that purpose: to bring in tons of money. Imagine no Rapha and Djoker... yeah go figure.
You're forgetting that at that time all cyclists were all on drugs, so it was a level playing field...survival of the fittest...He's still a legend,and an excellent athlete.
your forgetting that there were those who were not on drugs, those who spoke out, and lance aggressively sued them for trying to make the truth public knowledge, hes a horrible human being.
***** I'm sorry, but you're asking who gets hurt? What about the hundreds of other cyclists in the world who are trying to make a living from the sport. It's true that in perspective of other travesties it might not seem like much, but the fact remains that while Lance Armstrong was an amazing athlete, he was also a cheat, one that ruined the sport for many others.
I'm sorry but as some one who enjoys sport, I believe in fair play by all those who compete, the idea that lance is a great guy because other people were cheating is insanity. Also of course some kid dying of dehydration is a bigger issue but it's also a very separate issue, who are you to tell me what to have opinions on? Lance was utterly ruthless to those who spoke out against what he did, that in my view makes him a very bad human being. He is a man without integrity or a conscience. He has cast a long lasting dark shadow on a great sport.
Easy to hate from the couch. Regardless of the past lance is still getting it done and is one of the fittest men on earth undoubtedly out dominating a completely different sport. Hats off, past is the past.
Lance is beast!! He is probably the greatest athlete of all time. The haters calling him a fraud have no idea just how ridiculously strong you have to be to win one Tour de France, never mind seven!! I raced bikes for 10 years and I've never come remotely close to hurting as much as I did to hang on to some blistering breakaways since I quit racing. So here you have it, he can handily beat everyone 'clean' in a world class triathlon as well as doped (as they all were back then) in arguably the most gruelling professional sport in the world.
no matter what happened to Lance, steroids do not make a champion, the champion trains everyday to be the best! lance be my hero forever! encouragement! admit and acknowledge that mistakes were made is human
Lance was not the only one doping on the tour...not for us to judge. He is still one of the most phenomenal athletes on this planet doping or not. Livestrong should not have unaffiliated themselves with him...he has raised more money for his foundation and done more good than bad...he is still a rock star in my book! Go Lance! You deserve to win!
1:25 Rainbow that is a beautiful view Guys wheelset looks pimp the front spokes look like there even moving and those black and white colors looks steez
the Spartans were fierce warriors who served the state and thier form of democracy while brutalizing those who they enslaved they were fierce, they were unrelenting in battle, and they served with utmost loyalty to death to each other and thier code. Lance Armstrong's a guy who rode a bike fast and took drugs to win races for game and money and bullied the people who would have outed him for it...... There's really no damn comparison at all......
No blessings....he's still a sociopath who hurt a lot of real human beings. Could not care less about the Tour De France. But there are lots of victims of his con.
Other people doing bad things doesn't justify you doing it. If you get arrested for stealing can you say "oh well other people are thieves as well". He directly and maliciously ruined people's careers and lives over his megalomania and greed and you give him blessings. Do you think your god would like that?
Mr Toad on that era doping was the rule not the exception. UCI allow it for the show until it stinks. Its not it was Lance a few more. It was 100% of the top riders. No justification just a fact, everybody we’re cheating, the whole game was a fraud!
Alright, haven't you all (commenters) beaten this to death already? Ok, Armstrong doped, but let's put some things into perspective: 1) You and I probably weren't professional cyclists in the early 2000s. We have no real bearing or gauge on the scale and pressure of doping in this time other than the testimony and confessions of the riders and teams which experienced it. 1b) There is good ground to assume most cyclists in this era were doping, the best example being 1998, the 'Tour du Dopage'. 2) He doped in cycling. Here we are now in triathlon, and I, despite never supporting Armstrong, am quite disappointed in the way some people are reacting. Unless or until there is some kind of proof that Armstrong is doping still, his tri results are completely valid and respectable. 3) A kind of double standard is being set in the Armstrong hate comments, in that nobody really had or has much argument about Ullrich, Vinokourov, Contador, E. Merckx, and many other famous cyclists who doped in their career.
The difference between Armstrong those other guys was he used his position to intimidate and damaged people lives. I liked Armstrong, until I read about how he treated the people trying to tell the truth. You should read how he fucked over Greg LeMond, the only American to legitimately win the Tour de France. The man is a national disgrace, not as much over the doping, as to his unethical behavior and conduct toward others.
He hadn’t run or swam for over 10 years properly rocks up and annihilates triathletes who have been doing all three disciplines for years whatever you think of him you’ve got to say he was a phenomenal athlete
Armstrong clearly has some great genetic advantages. His oversized heart can beat over 200 times a minute and thus pump an extraordinarily large volume of blood and oxygen to his legs
Correct me if I'm wrong but surely having a larger heart would mean less beats per minute, as each heart beat is more efficient and can pump more blood around the body? Isn't that why endurance athletes tend to have extremely low resting heart rate?
For people accusing him for being mean.. If you re an average dude and wants to be extremely successful, this is what you have to become... NOTE: you have to be extremely talented both mentally and physically to be successful and nice at the same time...
Diego Solis you obviously dont know the world of cycling. There are two kinds of athletes yes, the ones that dope and the ones that dont want to poison their bodies with disgusting drugs. When the second kind of athlete succeeds over the first kind, its beautiful.
+Diego Solis Oh, and the third kind ... the kind that when get caught cheating bribe the officials and threaten others so that the "caught" is not divulged. Don't forget the third kind.LA ran out of "cheating on his getting caught cheating", when that USADA guy got a hold of his case.
That's my point exactly. That's why the law is so important here. The law is the standard and the standard was the drug test which all cyclist were required to take. According to the law, every cyclist that didn't pop positive was clean which included Lance Armstrong. Just because he confessed doesn't change the fact that he met the standard. The standard needs to be looked at, not the athletes who work within them. The problem is with the anti doping agency. They need to get their crap together
If I was the blue jersey guy who won second place. I would spend my old years telling over and over the story of how Lance Armstrong, an actual cycling pro, beat my by 3 minutes in a Triathlon.
I get it. Athletes who get caught dopping lie for many reasons, especially loosing endorsements. But Lance threw his friends under the bus by exposing them to authorities for doping and denied he ever took anything. If you read is autobiography, he actually says he did! To me this says alot about his character and I have 0 respect for him!
Keith Greenan a great athlete no doubt, and maybe on a level playing field where no one was doping he may have won. But without cheating during that time while everyone else was, he would have been middle of the pack at best. The doping just helps out too much to be able to beat them.
1001chillout Its very hard for a cyclist to be completely natural in cycling. In the 1970s the cyclists mainly took some meth now you have a lot of PEDS. Greg Lemon claims he was allways completely natural, there is no way to know that.
Keith Greenan The season before he returned showed he was a mediorce sports person. He could only win because of the drugs. if he is winning its because he is on something.
The part about him I love the most is when he destroyed that woman's career and reputation by slandering her and calling her a drunk and an escort! What do you like best?
Even though he did dope for all his races and destroyed the careers of many outstanding athletes he did potentially save the lives of hundreds of thousands if not millions of cancer sufferers! I am not saying he should be celebrated as a hero but he did some good in the world
It is stupid to blame him and take all the awards from him. He was on dope, so everyone else, but he still climbed the hill quicker than others. Point a world champion free of drugs.
+Jakub Bednarczyk No you produce evidence and find the champions that are on the juice. Innocent until proven guilty is how it goes and LA was proven to be guilty.
He was top dog in a dope ridden sport, and he played the innocent card for years, with constant threats against anyone who dared to question his use of drugs. That is why he is reviled in the cycling world.
Lance accomplished what he did. And that is Amazing. He was there. He knows what it feels like to push the human body. To hurt and go on. A Magnificent Athlete. Still one of my Heros
The true gift of LA? It's to teach that one can accomplish great things while being a lesser human being; it's to demonstrate that one can both unfailingly inspire some and viciously malign others; it's to reveal that one can be both amazingly selfless and selfish altogether. Everything on a grand scale for Lance. Doesn't make him a bigger man though.
He has been tested for VO2 max, and he has been if not the highest one of the top 10. He competed in Ironman with pros almost 10 years younger al age 40!!! He has been accused when on his 20s when he started triathlon, and won never popped positive way before USPS and Discovery.
You wouldn't even imagine how much he trained to WIN this 70.3 plus tours and other competitions, forget about the drugs, he committed his life to sports.
@@neilr5335 you need to look in the mirror Mr. PERFECT! I am sure you have skeletons...........no matter we all sin. There are no levels of it.....if you have wronged then you have done the SAME as Lance. Least not be judged.....
People are right to condemn this "man". He sued the people in the past who, at the time correctly accused him of cheating. He essentially ruined their careers. The guy is a bitch, nothing more, nothing less. Everybody saying "he was just trying to keep up with the rest of the cheaters" well yeah, that's no excuse though... infact it's just really sad...
+xananadu ''this guy is a bitch, nothing more, nothing less'' okay, but he still raised millions of dollars for the fight against cancer, saved thousands of lives, raised money for children, etc. YOU, what did you do?
Well said....not really the doping I have a problem with but once caught he should have just admitted it instead of harassing and bulling others and basically ruined their careers as you've pointed out. Everybody knows most top cyclists dope so once you're caught let it be and move to another sport lol...
I didn't know Lance had one one. Of course this is about half distance of a full Ironman. The record for the Hawaiian Ironman championship course is over 8 hours
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People forget what a great swimmer Armstrong was as a youth before he ever got involved in triathlon around age 15. That feel for the water and basic technique doesn't go away, which is why he was able to resume training and come out of the water here within seconds of the lead.
He was beating other Pro Triathletes at 16
Amazing what dope can do.
@@rylanrussell9595 Good one😴
@@squacamole3599 Wasn't a joke you fucking idiot. No sarcasm, just a straight forward response. I'm utterly unimpressed by any of Lance's achievements.
@@rylanrussell9595he was already a freak athlete before pro cycling and EPO. Educate yourself you idiot
2:08 "hold up gotta turn my swag on" lol
He wasn’t doping as a 16yr old pushing Mark Alan and the other Pro triathletes to the limit
The guy was an amazing athlete from the start .
But he did dope, lied about it and destroyed the lives of anyone that called him out
@@mintheman7 certainly wouldn’t argue he was a decent honest person and could say at that time he was the best thief in a den of thieves but wow was it exiting to watch .
Not in comparison to international class athletes
Truth is ALL the elite competitors during his career were. Don't do it, be very average or not even be able to be competitive at all. People are fooling themselves if they think otherwise. At the end of the day it's the entertainment field and boy did he entertain! Now his vicious attacks on those that questioned him is another conversation. Beyond ugly.
wow this video is so dope
Patrick Morley no pun intended
nailed it like Jesus
LOL😂
It's so steroid you mean.
it’s all about winning!🚴🏽💦
Hahahaha this guy just cant stand not winning for a few years. He must enter competetions constantly. The beast.
@m you're fat.
He’s an Alpha , you’re a Beta . That’s the difference.
this is a man who does everything!! A true champion, no matter what some people say he will always be a legend
lol
This comment aged well
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;w;hat peole say??? facts are doper serial liar...bully...lol
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever"
Lance Armstrong has had more challenges and faced more difficulties, than most people. And with his pending and imminent court case ruling it doesn't look like these adversities will cease soon.
Lance Armstrong is a fighter, a survivor a champion, a inspiration while at the same time he is still a very human hero.
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He's also the biggest cheater of sport history!
He is also someone who tried to ruin people's personal and professional lives if they chose to tell the truth about him. He may be a great athlete but he is NO hero.
1:03 They all knew they were fucked.
Lance Armstrong is a champion in my book, no matter what.
LOOOL
It is easy to forget how talented and driven this guy is, even at 16 Lance was beating 25 and 30 year old pro triathletes. He was unlucky to be in an era of cycling where everyone doped, it overshadowed how good he really was because people think that he won only because he cheated. If everyone including lance were clean he still would have won and people that know pro cycling well all admit that Lance is still an all time great if not the greatest of all time.
Uh... no. I know pro-cycling plenty well and I do not consider Armstrong either great in any way--aside from perhaps the greatest cock-sucking douchebag cheating pro cyclist in the history of the sport. He is a quintessential narcissist, a liar, a bully, a fraud, a thief. He's a legend alright... but the legend is about how NOT to act as a professional athlete... or as a human being. He didn't cheat to win just once... he did it over and over and over again--robbing the Tour de France of SEVEN years of winners. That scar will be on the sport forever.
I mostly agree, but I doubt he would still win without doping. The reason is his natural red blood cells level was low which made him a hyper responder to blood doping. Blood doping gave him a bigger advantage than the others
Lance will always be an inspiration to me... He's a fighter... He's a champion... No governing body will be able to take that away from him in my mind...
He's also the biggest cheater of sport history!
@@lnz971 that we know of.
@@weimpromptu You'd have to go some to be worse than this POS. He ruined people's lives
Just forgetting all the drugs stuff for a minute.... he's an amazing athlete. To be fair his skills on the bike are so good that as long as he can swim a bit and put one foot in front of the other he's in with a good chance of winning a triathlon like this. Respect.
No dude he is rhe biggest cheater the world has known so if he wants to do sports just practise alone. He should not be in compet again and never
Flyff alive looks like somebody is salty 😂
No
I agree with you 💯 ! back in the day when I used to compete in triathlons I was the worst swimmer finished sooo slow was just horrible. I was such a strong biker that for 1hr I would do nothing but pass riders. On the run I could just keep with the pack at best. Would always finish top 10 in my age. Biking portion is huuuuge you are right 👍
Eh NO
Livestrong is a positive message. It's personal. It's the day to day. This is the true gift of Lance Armstrong. He is not responsible for how you play the game or the expectations required of the endorsers or the bar that the sport itself raises on each individual athlete. The blame should be shared by all.
Great liberal response... 🤨
I used to be a die hard fan of Lance. Not anymore. I don't talk down on him as I don't have the right to do so. When he was doping, all the other top riders were on drugs so it was a level playing field in that respect. But the biggest difference is that Lance really did wage a brutal war on anyone who questioned his honesty. Many of those people were no saints either and were just looking for their 15 minutes of fame by trying to pull Lance down, I'll give you that. But still it was a very nasty business from him indeed, he pretty much tried everything to ruin those people's lives. I still regard him as an exceptionally talented and amazing athlete, nobody in their right minds would question that. I just lost my respect for him as a decent human being.
Richard Serban Good summary. I would add that when a lie has gotten as big as it did (almost considered a god amongst men, fighting cancer, livestrong etc) it becomes almost impossible to tell the whole truth, and you would do almost anything in order to maintain the lie. Cant say most men wouldn't have done the same, although it takes a "sociopathic" personality to get to that stage in the first place.
He fought back against people who are actively trying to destroy him like Walsh and like the absolutely despicable Greg lemond.
Carbon, I get what you are saying, but as TheSteninbitt wrote, he was a sociopath who tried to stop his lie from getting out, so he actively tried to bully those who were trying to tell the truth. I cant say who started their side first, Lance being a bully and trying to destroy lives or those who were telling their story, but the thing of it is, he was in the wrong, so he should have just admitted it and used "EVERYONE was doping" as an argument. I already knew that everyone was, so I would have supported him, and other people like me, if he would have simply said "Yeah, you got me. I doped like a MFer, and this is how I did it."
Carbon Crank Just how is Greg Lemond despicable??
48 laws of power, crush your opponent entirely, defend reputation at all costs
Forgive and forget, he just was doing what all his friends in cycling were doing. he is still a great athlete, and also triathlon was his second sport so he is just going back into his roots.
Forgive & forget? No. What a WEAK comment.
It's not about cheating...he intentionally sued and ruined the lives of people who told the truth about him.
I was there that day watching my brother compete. I'm glad to say I witnessed one of his last competitions before this whole mess happened.
I could watch Armstrongs form on the bike all day. Wild cadance yet maximum efficiency, just poetry in motion.
Really was too bad we saw him complete a full IM in Nice or somewhere else. I wanted to see his bike time and compare it to how tired he would look and show on the run afterwards, if nothing else then for science.
Lance is a monster
@@alvmusic4402 no he isn't
@@alvmusic4402 and I'm thankful that the public opinion of people is not the final judgement.. you are all merciless and that's why forgiveness that matters is not up to you or determined by you. You can't handle such things. You don't have the temperance or intelligence.
This man was a hero of mine. He has let me down badly. That said, I believe he did WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN. WIN. WIN. This is the mindset of a champion, like it or not.
Real winners don’t use drugs to cheat though. Real winners use their talent and years of hard work to win.
@@thomaskeane6076 apparently all champions dope though. Big corp wants money. Great achievements bring money. The hunt on dope is i believe strict but not that strict for that purpose: to bring in tons of money. Imagine no Rapha and Djoker... yeah go figure.
You're forgetting that at that time all cyclists were all on drugs, so it was a level playing field...survival of the fittest...He's still a legend,and an excellent athlete.
your forgetting that there were those who were not on drugs, those who spoke out, and lance aggressively sued them for trying to make the truth public knowledge, hes a horrible human being.
Gregory Barber Let's see you accomplish what Lance did and then talk shit
how am i talking s**t? he's a cheat, always was and always will be nothing you ever say will change that, he IS a cheat and a nasty one at that
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I'm sorry, but you're asking who gets hurt? What about the hundreds of other cyclists in the world who are trying to make a living from the sport. It's true that in perspective of other travesties it might not seem like much, but the fact remains that while Lance Armstrong was an amazing athlete, he was also a cheat, one that ruined the sport for many others.
I'm sorry but as some one who enjoys sport, I believe in fair play by all those who compete, the idea that lance is a great guy because other people were cheating is insanity. Also of course some kid dying of dehydration is a bigger issue but it's also a very separate issue, who are you to tell me what to have opinions on? Lance was utterly ruthless to those who spoke out against what he did, that in my view makes him a very bad human being. He is a man without integrity or a conscience. He has cast a long lasting dark shadow on a great sport.
i remember racing lance when we were kids. i always wanted him to do an ironMan race against me. we were 15 or so. 1987. Good times.
Things that never happened.
Lies.
Easy to hate from the couch. Regardless of the past lance is still getting it done and is one of the fittest men on earth undoubtedly out dominating a completely different sport. Hats off, past is the past.
Wow! Did you see how fast this guy is on a bicycle ! He was swimming and running as well. Unbelievable!!!
1:26 - that is an epic shot!
Cool video,, it captures the Lance we all loved and admired... What a shame !!!
Lance is beast!! He is probably the greatest athlete of all time. The haters calling him a fraud have no idea just how ridiculously strong you have to be to win one Tour de France, never mind seven!! I raced bikes for 10 years and I've never come remotely close to hurting as much as I did to hang on to some blistering breakaways since I quit racing. So here you have it, he can handily beat everyone 'clean' in a world class triathlon as well as doped (as they all were back then) in arguably the most gruelling professional sport in the world.
Dope or not, lance is still an amazing athlete. He must be respected for his effort and victories on and off the bike.
lol
Digan lo que digan Lance sigue siendo ejemplo y una maquina en el deporte. Salu2 dsd mixco Guatemala centro América.
Lance: Well I'm band from cycling forever so I may aswell do this thing,it sounds dope
Sounds "dope"
"Band"
Banned from some cycling, else a Triathlon would be HARD for him.
@@spaceman9599 he did triathlon before cycling. swimming was originally his strength.
@@esakhwaja8592 Oh! I didn't know this. I guess so used to seeing him as a cyclist that I did not think he'd done anything else before.
no matter what happened to Lance, steroids do not make a champion, the champion trains everyday to be the best! lance be my hero forever! encouragement! admit and acknowledge that mistakes were made is human
Lance was not the only one doping on the tour...not for us to judge. He is still one of the most phenomenal athletes on this planet doping or not. Livestrong should not have unaffiliated themselves with him...he has raised more money for his foundation and done more good than bad...he is still a rock star in my book! Go Lance! You deserve to win!
Waow that was EP(O)IC!!!
1:25
Rainbow that is a beautiful view
Guys wheelset looks pimp the front spokes look like there even moving and those black and white colors looks steez
Thank you Lance!
True about the Tour de France, but this isn't the TdF...it's the Ironman! He won this fair and square.
Lance Armstrong an athlete the world will look back on as we look back now on the Spartans.
the Spartans were fierce warriors who served the state and thier form of democracy while brutalizing those who they enslaved they were fierce, they were unrelenting in battle, and they served with utmost loyalty to death to each other and thier code. Lance Armstrong's a guy who rode a bike fast and took drugs to win races for game and money and bullied the people who would have outed him for it...... There's really no damn comparison at all......
If he was the only dope maybe we can condemn him
God bless you Lance
No blessings....he's still a sociopath who hurt a lot of real human beings. Could not care less about the Tour De France. But there are lots of victims of his con.
Arturo amigo, tooooodos se dopan
Arturo entiende si todos se dopan entonces esta bien !
Other people doing bad things doesn't justify you doing it. If you get arrested for stealing can you say "oh well other people are thieves as well".
He directly and maliciously ruined people's careers and lives over his megalomania and greed and you give him blessings. Do you think your god would like that?
Mr Toad on that era doping was the rule not the exception. UCI allow it for the show until it stinks. Its not it was Lance a few more. It was 100% of the top riders. No justification just a fact, everybody we’re cheating, the whole game was a fraud!
Alright, haven't you all (commenters) beaten this to death already?
Ok, Armstrong doped, but let's put some things into perspective:
1) You and I probably weren't professional cyclists in the early 2000s. We have no real bearing or gauge on the scale and pressure of doping in this time other than the testimony and confessions of the riders and teams which experienced it.
1b) There is good ground to assume most cyclists in this era were doping, the best example being 1998, the 'Tour du Dopage'.
2) He doped in cycling. Here we are now in triathlon, and I, despite never supporting Armstrong, am quite disappointed in the way some people are reacting. Unless or until there is some kind of proof that Armstrong is doping still, his tri results are completely valid and respectable.
3) A kind of double standard is being set in the Armstrong hate comments, in that nobody really had or has much argument about Ullrich, Vinokourov, Contador, E. Merckx, and many other famous cyclists who doped in their career.
The difference between Armstrong those other guys was he used his position to intimidate and damaged people lives. I liked Armstrong, until I read about how he treated the people trying to tell the truth. You should read how he fucked over Greg LeMond, the only American to legitimately win the Tour de France. The man is a national disgrace, not as much over the doping, as to his unethical behavior and conduct toward others.
We can add Fausto Coppi to the list. He admitted doping as well, but it was before anyone really cared about it (TV interview 1952)
90% of all athletes you see on TV take some form of performance enhancement drug , the other 10% are either coach`s or commentators .
Louis Cyphre So the other 10% are no athletes??
He hadn’t run or swam for over 10 years properly rocks up and annihilates triathletes who have been doing all three disciplines for years whatever you think of him you’ve got to say he was a phenomenal athlete
Doesn't anyone have something nice to say? Good job athletes!
That's the DOPE! This makes me want to GROW as an athlete.
Are you one of them now ?
Armstrong clearly has some great genetic advantages. His oversized heart can beat over 200 times a minute and thus pump an extraordinarily large volume of blood and oxygen to his legs
Correct me if I'm wrong but surely having a larger heart would mean less beats per minute, as each heart beat is more efficient and can pump more blood around the body? Isn't that why endurance athletes tend to have extremely low resting heart rate?
He has a naturally shitty v02 max and isn’t an elite athlete. He just brought cheating to a new level.
Ben correct
@@MT-mk6qz yeah.... no. You obviously never went to medical school.
@@nonyobussiness3440 it's ~82 and probably twice as yours fatty.
And he has raised over a half a billion dollars for charity and given hope to people with cancer. Still a hero!!
For people accusing him for being mean.. If you re an average dude and wants to be extremely successful, this is what you have to become... NOTE: you have to be extremely talented both mentally and physically to be successful and nice at the same time...
Personnally, I really don't care that he took dope, like so many runners, on the Tour de France... This video is simply beautiful to watch.
There's two kinds of professional athletes: the ones that get caught cheating and the ones that don't get caught cheating.
there are three: those who confess to doping . Lol
Diego Solis You really forgot the ones who don't dope^^ There are always a handfull who are just talented not doped.
Diego Solis you obviously dont know the world of cycling. There are two kinds of athletes yes, the ones that dope and the ones that dont want to poison their bodies with disgusting drugs. When the second kind of athlete succeeds over the first kind, its beautiful.
+Diego Solis Some of them don't get caught cheating... because they're not cheating at all!
+Diego Solis Oh, and the third kind ... the kind that when get caught cheating bribe the officials and threaten others so that the "caught" is not divulged. Don't forget the third kind.LA ran out of "cheating on his getting caught cheating", when that USADA guy got a hold of his case.
LoL He must have killed it on the cycling portion!
Probably not the fastest @ running or swimming though.
He was a competitive triathlete before he became a cyclist. That's what got him into cycling. Swimming was originally his best event.
As a human, might be not be the best example out there. But as an athlete,he was and still is one of the greatest
Mohit Hardikar that is one of the dumbest comments on you tube
That's my point exactly. That's why the law is so important here. The law is the standard and the standard was the drug test which all cyclist were required to take. According to the law, every cyclist that didn't pop positive was clean which included Lance Armstrong. Just because he confessed doesn't change the fact that he met the standard. The standard needs to be looked at, not the athletes who work within them. The problem is with the anti doping agency. They need to get their crap together
I don't care what anyone says. Lance Armstrong is an absolute animal.
Lance is the biggest legend in cycling history. He was the best of the dopers.
Title: "Lance Armstrong wins Ironman 70.3 Hawaii."
Me: "Check for roids content."
you mean, a sociopath and bully won?
@@spaceman9599 I didn't mention anything about steroids or epo.
@@BobbyL80123 Sorry man, addressed to wrong person. Corrected.
EPO isn't steroids Durantest
Have they stripped Lance of this win as yet?
They should... helmet not buckled flying down the road... it's at least a time penalty at worst a full on DQ,
When he gets on the bike, game over man GAME OVER!
If I was the blue jersey guy who won second place. I would spend my old years telling over and over the story of how Lance Armstrong, an actual cycling pro, beat my by 3 minutes in a Triathlon.
I get it. Athletes who get caught dopping lie for many reasons, especially loosing endorsements. But Lance threw his friends under the bus by exposing them to authorities for doping and denied he ever took anything. If you read is autobiography, he actually says he did! To me this says alot about his character and I have 0 respect for him!
Watch the interview. When she asks him if he cheated, listen to his answer.
that was DOPE!
awesome Lance GOAT
Wow, Ironman really does everything for making business. I'd rather go for the Challenge series.
It's like he'd still win the tour de france when we see his pedaling frequency
Dope.
🤣
Good to see he is still doping, this guy doesn't care what anyone thinks.
he shouldn't they doubted jesus also just saying
Here is the music/songs playing:
The swim and bike: Veigar Margeirsson - Epic Powers
The run: Veigar Margeirsson - Escape The Ape
You're welcome!
So , AWESOME!!!
WAY TO GO!!!=)=)
GOOD JOB!!!!
Lance you are still my hero.
Steroidssssss
Dope works
bike: checked
trainers: checked
trisuit: checked
doping: done
*Lance Armstrong one of top 5 athletes of all time.*
FACTS
No.
Lance is a rockstar
for me he wil always be livestrong
he is a legend
A fake legend
I think Lance Armstrong could have won one tour de france without drugs. I think he was still one of the greatest endurance athletes of all time.
Keith Greenan a great athlete no doubt, and maybe on a level playing field where no one was doping he may have won. But without cheating during that time while everyone else was, he would have been middle of the pack at best. The doping just helps out too much to be able to beat them.
1001chillout Its very hard for a cyclist to be completely natural in cycling. In the 1970s the cyclists mainly took some meth now you have a lot of PEDS. Greg Lemon claims he was allways completely natural, there is no way to know that.
Keith Greenan The season before he returned showed he was a mediorce sports person. He could only win because of the drugs. if he is winning its because he is on something.
Keith Greenan hahahahahahha. He was a great one day racer and US Postal got their ass kicked in Europe without drugs. You are so wrong lol
True dat!
The part about him I love the most is when he destroyed that woman's career and reputation by slandering her and calling her a drunk and an escort! What do you like best?
no matter what Lance! you're still the one who inspires me to live a healthy lifestyle. God bless u always
Even though he did dope for all his races and destroyed the careers of many outstanding athletes he did potentially save the lives of hundreds of thousands if not millions of cancer sufferers! I am not saying he should be celebrated as a hero but he did some good in the world
Great! Respect!
Fantástico, este é Lance Armstrong.
Uma lenda, o melhor.
It is stupid to blame him and take all the awards from him. He was on dope, so everyone else, but he still climbed the hill quicker than others. Point a world champion free of drugs.
+Jakub Bednarczyk No you produce evidence and find the champions that are on the juice. Innocent until proven guilty is how it goes and LA was proven to be guilty.
he was never proven to be guilty he never failed a drug test the only reason why he got caught cuz he confess
this is incorrect. He failed several and others retested later on came back positive as well.
Armstrong is still a hero no matter what.
He was top dog in a dope ridden sport, and he played the innocent card for years, with constant threats against anyone who dared to question his use of drugs. That is why he is reviled in the cycling world.
Lance accomplished what he did. And that is Amazing. He was there. He knows what it feels like to push the human body. To hurt and go on. A Magnificent Athlete. Still one of my Heros
*Power of EPO ! Respect Armstrong* 💪
As if they almost finish an Ironman before I finish a marathon
Half ironman....
Lance Armstrong best tour de france wim
You need to take lance pills
Leon Beale this is only a half Ironman
Liz Ard 7:35:...
The true gift of LA? It's to teach that one can accomplish great things while being a lesser human being; it's to demonstrate that one can both unfailingly inspire some and viciously malign others; it's to reveal that one can be both amazingly selfless and selfish altogether.
Everything on a grand scale for Lance. Doesn't make him a bigger man though.
Lance: THE LEGEND!
He's still the boss, everyone's on drugs..
The fucking boss.
Lance Armstrong has always had amazing physical conditions. He did the same than others.
He has been tested for VO2 max, and he has been if not the highest one of the top 10. He competed in Ironman with pros almost 10 years younger al age 40!!! He has been accused when on his 20s when he started triathlon, and won never popped positive way before USPS and Discovery.
Lance blew by that guy like he wasn't even moving! What a legend Lance is....
Smoke weed everyday...
The EPO man
Well done Lance. Fook the haters
What are the songs in this video? Specifically the one starting at 1:33 ?
You wouldn't even imagine how much he trained to WIN this 70.3 plus tours and other competitions, forget about the drugs, he committed his life to sports.
Most top level pro athletes dope. He's till an incredible athlete though
*still
+JUSTIN hey mate hes a junkie, a doper, a cheat...dont you get it?
+JUSTIN He's a Cheat. You obviously are Not an Athlete; Im guessing a Liberal? LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER!
+Neil R hey buddy, all cyclists dope so just Lance dopes, it makes no difference.
@@neilr5335 you need to look in the mirror Mr. PERFECT! I am sure you have skeletons...........no matter we all sin. There are no levels of it.....if you have wronged then you have done the SAME as Lance. Least not be judged.....
People are right to condemn this "man". He sued the people in the past who, at the time correctly accused him of cheating. He essentially ruined their careers. The guy is a bitch, nothing more, nothing less.
Everybody saying "he was just trying to keep up with the rest of the cheaters" well yeah, that's no excuse though... infact it's just really sad...
Yeah, he really is a bad dude.
Success seems to make people blind to the fact her harassed and bullied people into cheating.
+xananadu Sour grapes. Lance wannabe.
+xananadu ''this guy is a bitch, nothing more, nothing less'' okay, but he still raised millions of dollars for the fight against cancer, saved thousands of lives, raised money for children, etc. YOU, what did you do?
Well said....not really the doping I have a problem with but once caught he should have just admitted it instead of harassing and bulling others and basically ruined their careers as you've pointed out. Everybody knows most top cyclists dope so once you're caught let it be and move to another sport lol...
xananadu
Good thing you tube can't broadcast smells cause that floater would stink up the internet
I didn't know Lance had one one. Of course this is about half distance of a full Ironman. The record for the Hawaiian Ironman championship course is over 8 hours
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