I still love em all, every generation who raced this race. I still love elefantino, the 2nd most exciting biker in my day. They were never clean folks but they all could ride that fn bike man. Amazin.
I watched the Lance era TDF's with more interest than any Superbowl, World Series and NBA finals combined. Lemond got me on a bike in the 80's, but later, Armstrong motivated me to do mountains and centuries.
I've Just today completed 🌈21 days. 2,218 miles. No rest days. #NHS🌈 125:20:41 saddle time 🚴 Tour de France distance completed 🙌 Week 3/Day 21 >> 2,218 miles / 99,277ft While watching your Tour dew France videos! I thank you :-D
I am still a fan of Lance simply because it is not possible to change how many thrills he gave me. In retrospect, of course. Now, when I listen to him from back in 2002 it just looks so different. I now see a man who is saying all the right things, while, at the same time knowing that he was cheating.
And what he did to Lemond, who remains the only American to win the Tour. AND the only Tour champion to advocate for increased doping controls while he was winning.
enjoy it for what it was- total dominance in a sport 2nd only to horse racing for dirtiness, but still an amazing, totally sociopathic athlete, doing whatever it takes to win, and a magnificent team dedicated to to that same purpose. Perhaps not great personal role models, but they sure could tear up a stage race.
You mean other than putting mail in your mailbox every day? Every once in awhile I have a problem with USPS. Every once in a while I have a problem with UPS. Every once in a while I have a problem with FedEx. What's the difference?
@@christianmarche993 There are over 330,000 USPS Postal carriers. I don't expect every one of them is pure as driven snow. Maybe you should explain why you're ragging on USPS? If you're thinking it's any better in the private sector you would be wrong. The same kind of thing happens with UPS and FedEx. Here's something I found that a group of UPS employees in Arizona did and I find nothing equivalent of in the USPS. "Authorities arrested 11 people, including four UPS drivers and supervisors, in Tucson, Ariz., for their roles in the alleged smuggling ring, the Department of Homeland Security said. Investigators say the suspects moved thousands of pounds of marijuana and other drugs into the U.S. from Mexico each week using the company's standard cardboard boxes, bypassing security measures. Mario Barcelo, a 20-year UPS employee, and dispatch supervisor -- was named as the alleged ringleader of the operation. In a news release, the federal authorities said officials learned of the operation in 2017. Barcelo was arrested on Nov. 13. 2019 Prosecutors said Barcelo, 49, used his position in the Tucson UPS distribution facility to ensure the drug shipments were loaded to the correct trucks and delivered to the intended destinations,The Washington Post reported."
@@jackhammer111 I agree with you but in the last 5 years in particular, I have lost thousands in merchandise all through my local poat office. I own a small business and we use virtually all of the private and government shippers. Despite 330,000 carriers, I have seen some serious fuckery with my local Post Office. Last year in particular I was to receive a pair of $1500 boots for resale ($2500). The shipper was very irresponsible and wrapped the box in clear shrink wrap identifying the product labels. The boots went missing during processing AT my local post office (never made it to the route truck) and the staff there were particularly belligerent when I inquired about the shipment and advised me to put in a claim without doing a lost package search. I got suspicious and contacted the Postal Inspector General. Hours after the I.G. confirmed that the station was contacted about the missing package, the package was placed at my door by a man in plain clothes at 3am! Highly suspect. The surveillance footage was forwarded to the I.G. A following shipment came from abroad and was promptly returned to sender for no reason at all (spite). In the I.G. words "This postal station is known to us and we are watching." A shake up soon occurred and thing got marginally better. I do without a doubt think that the issues with my local station are isolated but I can go on all day about them. Where I lived in the past had wonderful USPS personnel but at this point I'm completely fed up. My UPS driver is a class act, FedEx, DHL and Amazon are a pleasure to do business with locally. And I'm not the only one locally that has gone through this with them.
"he showed he still can win when he is clean" made me laugh out loud ^^ dont get me wrong i love cycling and the fact they show what a human can do with all the dope you can fit in a body ;) forget the laws and rules we want full doped mutants and see what they can do ofc they maybe dont live long but hey thats the price you pay for getting rich with the help of drugs. they should be honest everyone knows it and hearing lance talking about how he is true to the sport should tell you everything you need to know. That is the truth noone wants to see. i cant call lance a fraud because he was the best of the drug users its not like it is doped vs clean its all about doped vs doped so in a sense its a fair competition ^^
They are still doing the same thing. They just haven’t found the test for whatever it is. Just look at the times they are doing up some of these climbs they are doing now. Vinegaard took a climbing record on a climb this year by 1 minute 40 seconds. I mean come on how does someone do that against the guys on EPO unless the same thing is going on just think about it. I mean I loved watching Lance they where all doing the same thing at that time he was just the best prepared with the best team. Was he a liar and a bully? Yes he was but I don’t think they should have stripped him unless they want to strip everyone for the last 50 years because there has been drug use by 99 percent of riders for at least that long.
@@HolgerDanske874 I’m not saying they are taking EPO but they are for sure taking something that hasn’t been figured out yet. Or it has and they are just looking the other way.
Only question I have is: how does Virenque get to keep his 7 KoM wins? He Was suspended numerous times for drugs and one of his wins the race committee didn’t want him in the race.
@@drunkensailor112he admitted to doping in a French court. Do some research. It's not hard. He also said that doping in his sport is as common as changing a tire. Ignorant people like you are why they get away with it.
This was shortly after he tried to destroy Greg LeMond and anyone who even dared suggest there was a possibility he was doping. That's when it became obvious to me that he was guilty of something he was hiding. His actions showed a man who was terrified of a secret getting out and he was set to go to his grave with it, even if he had to destroy everyone. I wish Lance well--he got what he deserved, so now move on and try to make the best of the rest of your life. A lot of honest cyclists never got to stand on the podium eight times on the Champs Elysees, even if it was all a lie.
For those talking about EPO in the comments... the test for EPO was introduced in 2000. By this point they were either microdosing it, OR were mostly blood doping to avoid detection. And they were all doing it. But they never had asthma like today’s heroes.
It's amazing how dope immunized Lance from all accidents, incidents, injuries, and road hazards. EPO just neutralized all teamwork, fueling strategies, recoveries and sleep! PEDs is immortality God mode, and guarantees victory! Doesn't it! Oh but he was a meanie. Big old meanie head who wasn't very nice at all, so you shouldn't be inspired by a compelling story you know is fiction! Imagine, being inspired by a lie! Like lord of the rings or star wars. Spoiler warning, Luke Skywalker isn't real! Neither is Santa 🧑🎄
@Gennaro Savastano nobody trained as hard as Lance Armstrong did! How could you watch this videowhere they specifically delineate that he rides each mountain numerous times in training.
He’s the greatest cyclist that ever lived. He had the most determination, and the best genetics (higher lactate threshold). Yes, he was doped to the gills, but so was ever other top rider. Lance Armstrong didn’t win 7 tour de Frances because he was doping, he won because he was the best rider.
Wattage and computers are also doping. Sky started this. Today 23 year olds get heart attacks riding 54 km/u average in races. When you keep your car engine at 6900 rpm when the red zone start at 7000 it isn’t healthy and will blow.
That final right hand turn leading to the last stretch up the Vontoux looks like complete torture. You make the turn thinking finally I’m here but no, still have to deal with a brutal 50m.
1:17:10 the look. The truth is he wasn't really looking at Jan Ullrich. Right before this his teammate had been in front of him and pulled off. Lance was looking to see if his teammate had anything left or not because that would tell him whether he was on his own or not. When he saw that his teammate had cracked and possibly seen the pained expression on Ullrich's face, he decided it was time to go. People who think it was a taunt or just seeing what they want to see, not what really happened.
Lance trained harder/smarter, lots harder !!!than the other racers…just smarter and better at the “doping” than all than all the top racers doing the same… but…he also trained harder and smarter…
Art Emis Everyone is cheating, he just better at it. And the reason he did all that because people try to take him down because of his popularity. So stop acting like cycling was clean, and only Lance was cheating.
@@oudomh3558 So you're saying he won fair and square because everyone was cheating the same? It's a completely skewed playing field and incidentally not everyone was cheating - probably 90%+ but some of those riders made it on their own merit. Those were the kind of riders Lance considered 'losers' I saw Lance in 1992 in San Sebastian. He came in last - way behind everyone www.bikeraceinfo.com/classics/San%20Sebastian/1992-clasica-san-sebastian.html. He was thoroughly outclassed. The guy was a decent one day racer who was punchy on climbs but lacked the tools to even make the top 20 in a grand tour. Wind the clock forward and with the cancer shields up suddenly he's the best ever. He 'won' his Tours because he had full cheating structure around him. He was willing to risk EPO in 99 after the Tour had almost been abandoned in '98. Then he upped the game in 2000 and started getting the UCI on his side. He was basically the Don Corleone of cycling and treated the sport as his own personal fifedom. The way he sued other people, threatened their livelihoods and was surly and aggressive has smeared the sport forever. The guy was a complete fraud, a pathological liar (who incidentally still won't 'rat' on his co-conspirators) and the epitome of a 'loser' He's selling t-shirts and hats these days access.wedu.team/shop/ you should buy some :)
Art Emis Here's the thing, the top guys in the sport are cheating Alberto Contador, Jan Ulrich, and, may his soul Rest In Peace, Marco Pentani and so on. They all dope, and you admitted that Armstrong are better doper. You said that 90% of riders made it on their merit? It's just not true. At least half were cheated. So, yes, and I say it again, Armstrong won because the people that are doping are not good as him, except Contador. Again, attacking Lance because he's doping while everyone was doing the same thing is just out of spite, and probably jealousy.
Lance is an American hero....no doubt about that. When they all were doing dope he still came through and kicked ass in the sport. After all has been exposed he deserves the honor and respect of being a champion for the US. Those who don't agree are in denial of the truth and are ignorant about the sport. He made us all cheer for him and it was the best TV ever for the sport.
If you’ve seen any of the videos about Lance’s body language, you’ll see at 02:25 he is probably lying. “For some reason...” - he knows the reason - he is worried that the other teams are doping better than him. But he can’t say that, so talks about them being stronger in terms of riders, etc.
If it’s ok to change from a man to a woman and compete with women ...then doping seems legit to me. Lance crushed them when they were all doing the same shit. Get off y’all’s high horses.
@@mylesgray3470Low-cost Lance was a journeyman triathlete at best. Everything special about him came out of a blood transfusion bag, he responded so well to doping. Lemond was your super athlete. A natural freak of nature, so strong
you simply cant take EPO or for that matter ANY PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUG and win without some very serious training. all high level sports require some doping. if you dont know this, then i am sorry for you
None of his former teammates or enemies even alleged this, even Floyd and Tyler. The whole team, mechanics and Trek would have to be in on it, so why would they hide it now when they already crucified Armstrong years ago for the actual doping? Anyway, the technology was simply not there at that time.
Factoid, His legs have been xrayed and found lithium batterys powering coreless motors and an unobtaium alloy frame work. The first of its kind but often copied. Charging was done through " yellow" power!
Always amazing to see people lie dead into the camera and not flinch. Money and fame makes one a great liar. Imagine if everyone was on what Lance was. Could he still have won?
Vinicius Mazzon: Who would these innocent riders be, that were destroyed by Lance and the "Chain Gang"? Every top 25 rider was either caught doping or admitted to doping once they retired.
I still love watching the old lance riding in the alps. He inspired me to have a life long passion for riding so thank you for that lance!
He inspired me to have a life long passion for epo, such a great guy
He inspired me to have a life long passion for aggressive lying. Such a great guy.
@@alexanderhamburg4653 I bet he gave you a life long love for testicals too. HA! Yeah?
@@Harney5lance is the goat
@@lukebooth1863He's the lion eating all the goats.
"I just want to be the guy that keeps his mouth shut, works hard, is true to his team, true to his family, true to his sport." 😭
😅😅
Regardless of what happened, everyone was doping!!! Lance was something else to watch those seven years of the tour! GOAT!!!
Lol
Really really great production. Fantastic footage. Thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Watched the whole video and loved it. I was 25 back then, and Lance got me into cycling.
I love these tour de France videos that Phil makes. There the perfect mix of racing, interviews, & news of that years tour all mixed up in 3-4 hours.
I still love em all, every generation who raced this race. I still love elefantino, the 2nd most exciting biker in my day. They were never clean folks but they all could ride that fn bike man. Amazin.
Thanks for posting. Good memories watching in the lull to the lead up to another TDF. Classic cycling!
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you so much for posting this video!!!!! really fantastic and I really enjoy them!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I watched the Lance era TDF's with more interest than any Superbowl, World Series and NBA finals combined. Lemond got me on a bike in the 80's, but later, Armstrong motivated me to do mountains and centuries.
@jacho96
Encore une super vidéo Remco, hâte de voir la suite ! On est derrière toi pour la Vuelta !!
Lance was the one that made me passionate about cycling. It's great watching these videos of his glory days.
By far, the best looking jersey/uniforms of any and all tours. The u.s postal this year with the black look excellent!!
This tour wasn't the same without Jan.
I'm glad I live in a time where we can see the history of cycling on TH-cam. And Lance is the king, I dont care what anyone else says.
This was absolutely the most exciting and watchable era in cycling.
RIP Paul S. God bless.
I've Just today completed 🌈21 days. 2,218 miles. No rest days. #NHS🌈
125:20:41 saddle time 🚴
Tour de France distance completed 🙌
Week 3/Day 21 >> 2,218 miles / 99,277ft
While watching your Tour dew France videos! I thank you :-D
super woman
Amazing feat! To think these guys did it in 82 hours or so is unbelievable
My arse aches for you lol!
Few too many rainbows to be honest. What statement are you trying to make here?
I am still a fan of Lance simply because it is not possible to change how many thrills he gave me. In retrospect, of course. Now, when I listen to him from back in 2002 it just looks so different. I now see a man who is saying all the right things, while, at the same time knowing that he was cheating.
I’m just here to listen to the sweet tunes.
Gary Imlach looks young here. Good to see his bad t-shirts are still the same.
Out of the saddle in extreme power outbursts and high percentage uphill for a max distance of 3 to 400 meters
Nice vid
Armstrong was protected by UCI. Perfect hero. His biggest mistake was that he tried to comback. Like a person...look what he did with Andreu family.
And what he did to Lemond, who remains the only American to win the Tour. AND the only Tour champion to advocate for increased doping controls while he was winning.
Excelente
1999-2005 "wins" for Lance Armstrong. What should i do with this?
enjoy it for what it was- total dominance in a sport 2nd only to horse racing for dirtiness, but still an amazing, totally sociopathic athlete, doing whatever it takes to win, and a magnificent team dedicated to to that same purpose. Perhaps not great personal role models, but they sure could tear up a stage race.
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あぁ園芸シーズン始まるけれども植欲スゴすぎて危険ですね😮
The last time the USPS was good at anything.
That's some savage commentary! LOL!
You mean other than putting mail in your mailbox every day? Every once in awhile I have a problem with USPS. Every once in a while I have a problem with UPS. Every once in a while I have a problem with FedEx. What's the difference?
@@jackhammer111 it's bad by me. Postal Police busted carriers for stealing.
@@christianmarche993 There are over 330,000 USPS Postal carriers. I don't expect every one of them is pure as driven snow. Maybe you should explain why you're ragging on USPS? If you're thinking it's any better in the private sector you would be wrong. The same kind of thing happens with UPS and FedEx. Here's something I found that a group of UPS employees in Arizona did and I find nothing equivalent of in the USPS.
"Authorities arrested 11 people, including four UPS drivers and supervisors, in Tucson, Ariz., for their roles in the alleged smuggling ring, the Department of Homeland Security said. Investigators say the suspects moved thousands of pounds of marijuana and other drugs into the U.S. from Mexico each week using the company's standard cardboard boxes, bypassing security measures.
Mario Barcelo, a 20-year UPS employee, and dispatch supervisor -- was named as the alleged ringleader of the operation. In a news release, the federal authorities said officials learned of the operation in 2017. Barcelo was arrested on Nov. 13. 2019
Prosecutors said Barcelo, 49, used his position in the Tucson UPS distribution facility to ensure the drug shipments were loaded to the correct trucks and delivered to the intended destinations,The Washington Post reported."
@@jackhammer111 I agree with you but in the last 5 years in particular, I have lost thousands in merchandise all through my local poat office. I own a small business and we use virtually all of the private and government shippers. Despite 330,000 carriers, I have seen some serious fuckery with my local Post Office. Last year in particular I was to receive a pair of $1500 boots for resale ($2500). The shipper was very irresponsible and wrapped the box in clear shrink wrap identifying the product labels. The boots went missing during processing AT my local post office (never made it to the route truck) and the staff there were particularly belligerent when I inquired about the shipment and advised me to put in a claim without doing a lost package search. I got suspicious and contacted the Postal Inspector General. Hours after the I.G. confirmed that the station was contacted about the missing package, the package was placed at my door by a man in plain clothes at 3am! Highly suspect. The surveillance footage was forwarded to the I.G. A following shipment came from abroad and was promptly returned to sender for no reason at all (spite). In the I.G. words "This postal station is known to us and we are watching." A shake up soon occurred and thing got marginally better. I do without a doubt think that the issues with my local station are isolated but I can go on all day about them. Where I lived in the past had wonderful USPS personnel but at this point I'm completely fed up. My UPS driver is a class act, FedEx, DHL and Amazon are a pleasure to do business with locally. And I'm not the only one locally that has gone through this with them.
"he showed he still can win when he is clean" made me laugh out loud ^^ dont get me wrong i love cycling and the fact they show what a human can do with all the dope you can fit in a body ;) forget the laws and rules we want full doped mutants and see what they can do ofc they maybe dont live long but hey thats the price you pay for getting rich with the help of drugs. they should be honest everyone knows it and hearing lance talking about how he is true to the sport should tell you everything you need to know. That is the truth noone wants to see. i cant call lance a fraud because he was the best of the drug users its not like it is doped vs clean its all about doped vs doped so in a sense its a fair competition ^^
He says "Francis Moreau"???
the best thing is that they don't show any fatigue :D
iles et sur le jus :D
Im a bike messenger and cycle 600/800 km a week. I go to bed at 2 am and wake up at 7:30. For 7 years. The endorphins keep you going.
The glorious days of cycling! Epic
You misspelled epo there at the end.
They are still doing the same thing. They just haven’t found the test for whatever it is. Just look at the times they are doing up some of these climbs they are doing now. Vinegaard took a climbing record on a climb this year by 1 minute 40 seconds. I mean come on how does someone do that against the guys on EPO unless the same thing is going on just think about it. I mean I loved watching Lance they where all doing the same thing at that time he was just the best prepared with the best team. Was he a liar and a bully? Yes he was but I don’t think they should have stripped him unless they want to strip everyone for the last 50 years because there has been drug use by 99 percent of riders for at least that long.
@@rodneymartin9029 Vingegaard is 59 kg, Armstrong was 75 kg. EPO made you defy gravity. No way current peloton is on same shit.
@@HolgerDanske874 I’m not saying they are taking EPO but they are for sure taking something that hasn’t been figured out yet. Or it has and they are just looking the other way.
hi this is so cool
Only question I have is: how does Virenque get to keep his 7 KoM wins? He Was suspended numerous times for drugs and one of his wins the race committee didn’t want him in the race.
He's French and very popular.
He was never caught on any doping. But please provide evidence to the contrary.
Only the one guy had to pay for everyone’s sins it seems.
@@edwardspan396 Pathetic victimology. He was and is a bully.
@@drunkensailor112he admitted to doping in a French court. Do some research. It's not hard. He also said that doping in his sport is as common as changing a tire. Ignorant people like you are why they get away with it.
This was shortly after he tried to destroy Greg LeMond and anyone who even dared suggest there was a possibility he was doping. That's when it became obvious to me that he was guilty of something he was hiding. His actions showed a man who was terrified of a secret getting out and he was set to go to his grave with it, even if he had to destroy everyone.
I wish Lance well--he got what he deserved, so now move on and try to make the best of the rest of your life. A lot of honest cyclists never got to stand on the podium eight times on the Champs Elysees, even if it was all a lie.
“And he didn’t just get that way by eating his shredded wheat”. lol.
Francis Moreau 😂😂😂😂.. It’s Christophe Moreau 🤣🤣
The GOAT in the TdF! Fourtitude in '02 of the Magnificent 7.
Nope.
I'm going through all of them. PHD cannot help strategy. Bigger chess pieces don't make you a better player
For those talking about EPO in the comments... the test for EPO was introduced in 2000. By this point they were either microdosing it, OR were mostly blood doping to avoid detection. And they were all doing it. But they never had asthma like today’s heroes.
Either, or...not either, but
@@notreally2406 your comment was totally ignored. HA! Now that's funny! HA!!
Today's heroes are the kings of TUEs! And microdosing all kinds of stuff of course, nothing changed.
@@notreally2406 thanks, corrected 😉
No. There were many clean riders like David moncoutie who could finish top ten. Armstrong was a joke.
It's amazing how dope immunized Lance from all accidents, incidents, injuries, and road hazards. EPO just neutralized all teamwork, fueling strategies, recoveries and sleep!
PEDs is immortality God mode, and guarantees victory! Doesn't it!
Oh but he was a meanie. Big old meanie head who wasn't very nice at all, so you shouldn't be inspired by a compelling story you know is fiction! Imagine, being inspired by a lie! Like lord of the rings or star wars. Spoiler warning, Luke Skywalker isn't real! Neither is Santa 🧑🎄
GG!
opening song singer what name?
Francis Moreau's name is actually Christophe XD
Right.
Francis Moreau was another rider elder than Christophe and former world champion ( Track).
1:59:18 what's this about?
It's a question of "Yerp" 😂
Love these vids! Love him or hate him, Lance was a Boss!
Yes, best cheat by far. He took cheating to a new level. He did it more, he did it better. None of the other cheats could keep up with him.
Best cheater ever
@Gennaro Savastano nobody trained as hard as Lance Armstrong did!
How could you watch this videowhere they specifically delineate that he rides each mountain numerous times in training.
He’s the greatest cyclist that ever lived. He had the most determination, and the best genetics (higher lactate threshold). Yes, he was doped to the gills, but so was ever other top rider. Lance Armstrong didn’t win 7 tour de Frances because he was doping, he won because he was the best rider.
what a bunch of crap, he was average at best without doping
I hate to say it, but the similarity between Armstrong/US Postal and Froome/Sky from this Tour is striking
Wattage and computers are also doping. Sky started this. Today 23 year olds get heart attacks riding 54 km/u average in races. When you keep your car engine at 6900 rpm when the red zone start at 7000 it isn’t healthy and will blow.
That final right hand turn leading to the last stretch up the Vontoux looks like complete torture. You make the turn thinking finally I’m here but no, still have to deal with a brutal 50m.
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Oh Gary!! 1:15:23
13:34 admitted or not there's 1 club lance *NEVER* joined
Never wanted to stress out his team and have to defend the jersey on every stage of the tour.
he probably couldve if he wanted to. could his team keep up tho? no way
Funny to listen to the "speech" to Jan about his recreational drug use and suggest he modify his lifestyle more like that of Armstrong.
1:17:10 the look. The truth is he wasn't really looking at Jan Ullrich. Right before this his teammate had been in front of him and pulled off. Lance was looking to see if his teammate had anything left or not because that would tell him whether he was on his own or not. When he saw that his teammate had cracked and possibly seen the pained expression on Ullrich's face, he decided it was time to go. People who think it was a taunt or just seeing what they want to see, not what really happened.
so thats good... you can almost forgive him for all the transfusions, doping etc.
@@hgm8337 ...which everyone at the top of the field was also doing.
So funny how they keep on mentioning Chris Carmichael when it was actually Ferrari. And they could have known if they would have wanted to.
I bet more people watch this than the current TDF.
Right ,coz everyone loves watching a cheat.
You're wrong. Current cycling is beating all historical tv figures. Cycling is much more exciting today
@@drunkensailor112 ok i see... you're a troll but the problem here is that you're a bad one. i mean REALLY bad.
LOL! You probably believe the eart is flat as well! Hill billy!
Beautiful congrats on becoming a dad 🥖🥖🥖🥐🥐🥐
#devolvamos7ja
Quienes ganaron esos títulos que había ganado y le quitaron por doping???pues no han dicho casi nada de eso GP
Lance trained harder/smarter, lots harder !!!than the other racers…just smarter and better at the “doping” than all than all the top racers doing the same… but…he also trained harder and smarter…
Lance won all 7 tours doping or not
Threats, intimidation, money, better drugs, insiders on the tests, blood bags, EPO, corrupt UCI. The thing he truly was best at... was cheating
Art Emis Everyone is cheating, he just better at it. And the reason he did all that because people try to take him down because of his popularity. So stop acting like cycling was clean, and only Lance was cheating.
@@oudomh3558 So you're saying he won fair and square because everyone was cheating the same? It's a completely skewed playing field and incidentally not everyone was cheating - probably 90%+ but some of those riders made it on their own merit. Those were the kind of riders Lance considered 'losers'
I saw Lance in 1992 in San Sebastian. He came in last - way behind everyone www.bikeraceinfo.com/classics/San%20Sebastian/1992-clasica-san-sebastian.html. He was thoroughly outclassed. The guy was a decent one day racer who was punchy on climbs but lacked the tools to even make the top 20 in a grand tour. Wind the clock forward and with the cancer shields up suddenly he's the best ever. He 'won' his Tours because he had full cheating structure around him. He was willing to risk EPO in 99 after the Tour had almost been abandoned in '98. Then he upped the game in 2000 and started getting the UCI on his side.
He was basically the Don Corleone of cycling and treated the sport as his own personal fifedom. The way he sued other people, threatened their livelihoods and was surly and aggressive has smeared the sport forever.
The guy was a complete fraud, a pathological liar (who incidentally still won't 'rat' on his co-conspirators) and the epitome of a 'loser'
He's selling t-shirts and hats these days access.wedu.team/shop/ you should buy some :)
Art Emis Here's the thing, the top guys in the sport are cheating Alberto Contador, Jan Ulrich, and, may his soul Rest In Peace, Marco Pentani and so on. They all dope, and you admitted that Armstrong are better doper. You said that 90% of riders made it on their merit? It's just not true. At least half were cheated. So, yes, and I say it again, Armstrong won because the people that are doping are not good as him, except Contador. Again, attacking Lance because he's doping while everyone was doing the same thing is just out of spite, and probably jealousy.
the best thus far by far.i salute Lance Armstrong
Doping or no doping a super human effort not to be forgotten. RRGRACE
Lance is an American hero....no doubt about that.
When they all were doing dope he still came through and kicked ass in the sport.
After all has been exposed he deserves the honor and respect of being a champion for the US.
Those who don't agree are in denial of the truth and are ignorant about the sport.
He made us all cheer for him and it was the best TV ever for the sport.
100%
they were all cheating. he was the best at all of it
Let the best doper win?
@@richardv9648 In the 90's? Yeah, that's what it was, pretty much.
He raised a lot of money for cancer research. He's not as bad as he's portrayed. Oprah fucked him...
Lance armstrong in Yamaha o harley🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Dopers
Tf did i just wake up to 😭 3:23:48
Lance keep his mouth shut?
He didn't get that way just by eating his Shredded Wheat.
I think it’s the side dish that helped the most. Everyone was doing it, and probably still are. 🧪💉💊
Wheaties?
I laughed hard at that one
Trained harder/ smarter…beat them at their game…because he was not french…they went after him…
Now that we know about lance...he seems so smug that he knows he is cheat. What a tool. Like he hass duped everyone. Glad he was busted. Truth.
Тур франзастанда
I love dopers’ era
If you’ve seen any of the videos about Lance’s body language, you’ll see at 02:25 he is probably lying. “For some reason...” - he knows the reason - he is worried that the other teams are doping better than him. But he can’t say that, so talks about them being stronger in terms of riders, etc.
Such an arrogan guy that armstrong. Im happy we have now guys like vingegaard and pogacar
If it’s ok to change from a man to a woman and compete with women ...then doping seems legit to me. Lance crushed them when they were all doing the same shit. Get off y’all’s high horses.
The problem is every douche bag politician wants to be politically correct .
So you would be a cheat and lie if you were good enough to sit in a saddle
It's not
Oh look another tdf that never happened weird why are there so many
L0L, WHAT A SNAKE!!!
It's not that he did but the way he tried to blame everyone one else afterwards
Nice guys finish last I guess. He was not a nice guy. Legendary athlete though.
@@mylesgray3470Low-cost Lance was a journeyman triathlete at best. Everything special about him came out of a blood transfusion bag, he responded so well to doping. Lemond was your super athlete. A natural freak of nature, so strong
"I wanna be a sportsman"... and off we go with EPO...
you simply cant take EPO or for that matter ANY PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUG and win without some very serious training. all high level sports require some doping. if you dont know this, then i am sorry for you
Yup!! Doping continues today// too me , these were the best of times!!
They were all doping. In the end it just came down to who was the best that day.
Mechanical Doping
In 2002? No chance - batteries were too big
@@Chrishagen investigations are ongoing, wait for news.
None of his former teammates or enemies even alleged this, even Floyd and Tyler. The whole team, mechanics and Trek would have to be in on it, so why would they hide it now when they already crucified Armstrong years ago for the actual doping? Anyway, the technology was simply not there at that time.
@@JUANGARCIA-se4dm Put a sock in it. We've been waiting for decades.
Factoid, His legs have been xrayed and found lithium batterys powering coreless motors and an unobtaium alloy frame work. The first of its kind but often copied. Charging was done through " yellow" power!
Lance Armstrong biggest liar alive
he's in the same league as Elizabeth Holmes, Bernie Madoff and Donald Trump.
What I perfect liar
Amazing times. Lance Armstrong is my forever hero cyclist.
Armstrong = Epo
Works hard and keep his mouth shut and then goes around ruining other people's lives because he's a Doper and a cheater and should be in prison. 3:05
Always amazing to see people lie dead into the camera and not flinch. Money and fame makes one a great liar. Imagine if everyone was on what Lance was. Could he still have won?
Almost everyone was on what Lance was.
Yes
Yeah imagine if everyone else was doping. They weren't though. They were all clean. 100 percent.
Cycling: the dirtiest, most corrupt sport.
Dude.. LA is kind of a jerk
I ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ EPO and steroids.
LOL 38:50
MEGA CHEAT!
Armstrong all roided out cant stop lmao
Phuque Lance Armstrong. Disgrace to the sport of honest competition.
LOLOLOL master troll job
The French riders are all sissies...cry cry cry. Lance DA MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Such a shame about the doper...
arent they doping now?
so you mean the whole peleton? they were all doping homie and if you don't believe that, you're just a hater.
@@jblake615 pel O ton
@@iceman1125 With test, epo and shit like that? No way.
how come the times have gone faster now in the post epo era?@@HolgerDanske874
It is just terrible to see Lance Armstrong with the chain gang cheating and destroing the dreams of so many riders.
Yeah, those poor innocent babies weren’t doping at all ever. Hypocrite much?
He wasn't the only one 😂
Vinicius Mazzon: Who would these innocent riders be, that were destroyed by Lance and the "Chain Gang"?
Every top 25 rider was either caught doping or admitted to doping once they retired.
Then sky came along and did alot worse than lance yet got off scott free...brailsford was just another johan bruyneel......