I was inspired to become a serious drug user because of Lance. Nobody ever suspects me because I look so clean cut & have such a great job. Thanks for posting.
@Ginja Ninjaaa were ALL junkies Ginja, be it cocaine or twinkies. just remember were here on this earth to create carbon dioxide for the aliens, nothing more.... treat others as YOU wish to be treated because karma never sleeps
Started riding a bike aged about 7 got a bit serious aged 19 barely been off a bike for 46 years could say I'm hooked - on adrenaline ha ha More to do with Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche than Lance -what a worker!
I like how you've watermarked a film that isn't your property and can be watched here and on various platforms, and a film that most genuine cycling fans have already seen. Great work.
Durian rider the narcissist would not even see a problem with that. He also thinks Lance Armstrong is a God. The only person a narcissist will worship is another narcissist
@@ricardomoonbeam8530 yeah he is. He's a piece of work for sure. I used to follow him years ago. It's funny but I stumbled across this video by accident as well!!. I am currently reading David Walsh's book 'Seven Deadly Sins', and decided to look at some footage and came across this!!
Great video! Lance Armstrong is a great inspiration i also had testicular cancer and lung cancer back in 2008 it's 2023 im still cancer free cycling every day im 48 years old and feel better than when I was 35 years old!
Bill Burr is a comedian, and in this case he is totally wrong, and he probably knows it. Burr reads a lot. Tyler Hamilton and ALL OTHERS clearly said: It was NOT an even playing field. A really HUGE part of Armstrong's tour wins were to have the best doping and to interrupt the doping of others. He did it to Telekom, to Phonak, to CSC etc. The guy was called a psychopath in the FBI files.
My favourite was seeing George Carlin before he died and he literally walked on stage from behind the curtain and the first thing he said was "Fuck Lance Armstrong and his fuckin balls"
It wasn’t just that he cheated. He ruined the lives of anyone who tried exposing the truth. If his cheating wasn’t a big deal, why did he go after people?
Well you know what sucked? Reading about their workouts in Bicycling magazine. With Chris Carmichael saying do this and do that, so we’re out there following the plan with our intervals and heart rate monitors, but they never told us about the blood doping, HGH, and EPO parts of the plan.
@@simondolega7373 They were not all in on it. Those who didn't want to be a part of it, were out of the game in a matter of a couple of seasons. Those who were willing to cheat, "succeded".
All these people here saying Lance was the best ever or he dint deserve the punishment because all others were doped as well. Ok, fair argument. But remember this. Besides the cycling and him lying about doping just as others did he also attacked people that were either investigating him or told truth about him doping. He used his lawyers and money to quit them, he used tactics like a politician trying to destroy his opponent. He made life hell for witnesses and people that were not on his side. Its like Bush saying if your not on my side your the enemy and we will destroy you. No other doping user has gone on this kind of level. When other cyclist did not want to dope in his team they were out. And on top of that they would be open for smear tactics if they said anything. He took doping to another level and comparing it with the other dopers its clear to see why this narcissistic guy was handled differently in this case. What is another side to it is the fact the important people in the organisation of world wide cycling protecting him and took the money. Armstrong corrupted the whole system at that point and they were just as corrupt as him. Thats how the world works, the suits get off. Sickening. They are still in power at cycling. By the way, Lance was only the best because of doping, without it and every else also he would be a day cyclist winning some rides but the mountains he would not do good.
Everyone covering for him because just because he is American. If this guy way from any other nation, he wouldn’t receive any praise and would be labelled a cheater by everyone
OMG! I love this docu video. Greg Lamond inspired me to ride bike as a teen and Lance inspired me to ride and race as an adult. Love those two guys. Thanks for the video
Lance Armstrong was a cycling PHENOM regardless of what he, and others over the years, got caught up in. The US govt set out to take down an individual, not the problem, like what is going on in America today in the political world. European cycling could not stand they got their heads handed to them on a platter. I don't like what Lance and other cyclists did with doping, they let the pressure to win take them over. That said Lance, is one of the greatest cyclists EVER to race. The TdF, while Lance was competing, got me through FOUR knee replacement surgeries. I could not sleep due to pain so I watched every stage live and then all the rebroadcasts. Thank you!!!
To me, as a cycling fan since the late 70's, it's not the doping. In that era they all juiced. It's the sociopathic behaviour he displayed. Threatening to destroy careers, actually actively doing that and not just careers but lives. That makes him a loathsome character. Not his use of ped's which was common place at the time
Absolutely loved the start of this doco. Especially when the coach says 3 meters of snow you can't ride and Lance says "who says" So inspiring! Makes me want to get back into cycling! Thanks for posting
@@torontocitizen680295% of all professional athletes worldwide are doping. At least. Olympics, FIFA, everything. If you disagree you are naive or intellectually shorthanded
Did you watch the recent Netflix documentary about him? I had to turn it off. He’s just disgusting in his justifications and denials and soft-pedaling of his excuses.
Dude was the best... comes back from cancer treatment.. then wins the tour 7 years straight.. I loved the tour when Lance was in charge... so exciting..imspired me to ride too.. 57 and i am on a cycle
It's because of Lance that I got into cycling. He was just the fall guy. Everyone used something but they didn't get caught because they didn't win. Lance is still the seven time champion.
Nice work. This captures the members of the early U.S. Postal team in closeup conversations. The George Hincapie footage alone is worth the view. It also highlights the coaching process and documents the initial resistance to radios by the riders.
He was still unbelievable. He did what he did but so did everyone else. He was the best. You can't take that work ethic away from he. He worked his ass off.
YES, The Addition of Super Performance factors ONLY made him more; a Superman, unbeatable; ie, had "The Experts" NOT finally figured out What he/they were accomplishing with their super science; an amalgam of the premium knowledge, research and formulation designed to be subtle; he (Lance) would Still be Celebrated as the Greatest Athlete of 21st Century.
Putting aside how “Everyone else does it” is the excuse a 5 year old uses, if it wasn’t a big deal that he cheated, why did he go after and try to ruin the reputation or livelihood of anyone who tried exposing the truth?
Push aside the negatives and enjoy this. This is awesome. Disappointment came years later, but inspiration wins out 100 to 1. Lance and co did great things. Well done Lance, well done.
"Inspiration wins out 100 to 1" The motto of Joseph Goebbels. No, what wins out every single time is reality, and the reality is that Armstrong was one of the biggest liars and cheats in history, despite being an incredible athlete. He personally betrayed every single honest athlete in his sport, and is lucky to get away with only half a castration.
Agreed; pretty scummy to filch a lot of others peoples time, effort, work and edit their name and credits out making out it's a rare documentary and slapping their watermark/URL on it instead. Shitty click-baiting and theft to answer Personal Accounts snide comment.
@@runninrebel1520 This is a documentary which has been widely available for many years; all that has been done is a cut and edit to remove the details of those who made it and are due the credit. It's also had a Watermark/URL added on top of the documentary that does not belong there; which is leading people to a web store for someone not responsible for the content in the documentary. Scamming and click baiting people for personal gain while not crediting those who made it.
I bought this on DVD back in 2006 I think. One of my favourite documentaries. Overcoming was was another one I bought, the story of team CSC in 2004 and in my opinion the best overall TDF documentary there is.
Bottom line, he turned pro as a tri athlete at 15. His Vo2 max was one of the highest ever recorded. Everyone was on EPO and had a hema of about 47 to 50. He was a hyper competitor and a type A personality. He would have wone even if everyone was natural. He was a gifted endurance freak who could suffer. Was he an A hole? For sure, but he had to fall from grace to become a better human, I think he has made tremendous strides. I think he has put the monster in the corner and has learned a lot about humanity.
if he would have won if he didn't dope, then why did he dope. He bullied those who WERE clean (Simeoni). Many riders spoke out against doping and they were ostracized.
@@serinagaleong3781 is it cheating if everyone is doing it? I know what your answer will be but cyclists have been doping for 100 years. I would feel differently if it were just Lance. It was literally EVERYONE.
I have this on DVD and always think of it when everyone wants to dismiss him because of the later admissions. And yet they only talk about Lance using meds, never everyone else when they were ALL doing it but they werent all doing this training. This is how he surged when he needed and didnt when he didnt need to. His cancer taught him its all about numbers and discipline for long periods of time. Plus, he had the best team, everyone won it for him.
Yes, i've seen this one too before. You are correct. Most of the Tour riders were doping. However, this does not diminish the accomplishments of Lance. Seven in a row! And had he not retired its certainly possible he could have won several more because the guy retired for 3 or 4 years and came back at age 37 to podium in third place. No one gives him credit for literally riding the whole Tour in the early spring to check out all the nuances of the course and certainly all of the climbs. Every year he had different team members and through all of that generally the whole team remained intact the entire tour and no one got sick or crashed out. i only remember Lance having one bad day (Joux Plaine as I recall as be bonked because he did not take in enough fluids and calories) but he survived and came back to win the Tour. A remarkable achievement. He was just the fall guy for the entire doping scandals. Other sports (like baseball) were selective in who they punished as well and other "users" got a free pass. i think because Lance was American and at times prickly the Europeans took great glee in going after him.
This is the most unserious fanboy comment one can imagine. All dopers were being questioned by reporters and whistleblowers, and sometimes arrested and paraded in front of the public as such. You either haven't heard about the Festina Scandal, Operation Puerto and what happened to careers of riders like Pantani and Virenque - in which case you have no idea about road cycling and are just one person's fan - or are ignoring that history to construct this victim narrative for the person who is the least fitting for the role of a victim from that era. Then another claim, that supposedly it was only Armstrong who was "doing this training", when you don't get to even compete anywhere near the front of the field in grand tours unless you do all of what he is doing here. And then supposedly in other teams the domestiques rode for themselves and not for team leaders, when the latter is how every single team operated and operates. Lazy, ignorant clichés in service of gushing for a deeply unethical personality who was not only engaged in promoting himself to his fans as a clean athlete while doing the opposite, but went far beyond the other dopers by gaining support of influential people to attack and sink careers and destroy lives of those who questioned him and campaigned for truth on doping in cycling. Like the kids say, cringe.
@SvalbardSleeperDistrict you are just as bad as the guy you are attacking as your comment is biased with your obvious hatred towards Lance. It must have felt like daggers piercing your gut with every win Lance pulled off. Get real, we all know that everyone of these riders were doping along with taking a multitude of banned substances. It was an even playing field for all. Lance was just better at it than the rest.
@@roadcyclist1 Should I wait for any actual points against any actual arguments in my reply, or did you arrive here to make vague, random, unqualified, irrelevant claims?
I read his book during my own struggles with Cancer and it inspired me to stay strong and survive. After he was busted for drug use didn't they struggle to find someone in his races that wasnt doing drugs ?
@Charles Vane it seems we project our ideals/values naively regarding how the world really works at the highest levels of performance (whether sport, business, politics, entertainment, etc). Clearly a human’s desire & commitment to win, be “the best,” (for the few who can reach such levels) has a dark side, and necessitates choosing not whether, but when to cross ethical-ideological lines. For me Lance struggled heroically and sometimes persevered pathetically, but always 100% humanly. Much to learn re “reality” following his journey…
@Charles Vane They all used performance enhancing substances! It was the norm. Companies and the industry used him to profit billions and then dumped him!
I give that book to my uncle when he first found out that he had it. The average life expectancy was 5 to 10yrs. It has come back 15yrs later and the doctors have stopped it again but anyway I believe that book has a big part in his determination to fight. The odds Lance had to beat cancer was greater than the odds of most people winning the tour ( opinion ) but that's what defines Lance to me.
I have the most love and respect for Lance. None of us, at the time, understood the depth of the Doping that was going on within nearly all the top professional teams. I understand, now, the mentality of having to dope to win against the other dopers. My older eyes have a different perspective now. I'm no longer the blind faith ingenue that looked up to his hero and was so upset when the scandal broke. Lance did what he did. I have regained my respect and admiration for Lance Armstrong.
Lance is the Best athlete EVER .in the end of the video, ontop the mountain, when lance said his gonna go 10kilometer down and ride 10 back up.then the coach say to the other guy, that is how you win a tour de france..come train in this weather ... then the coach said,,, but no- one sees this.....meaning the effort and training, Lance put in... Brilliant...
Lance worked his butt off to win the tour. People have no idea how hard it is to win the tour especially in those days. You work that hard you have no choice but to do what EVERY rider was doing.
Lance brought a sense of magic that same way most super stars do when they step on the big stage. The world watched cycling when Lance was involved. I know he was doping. The winners or atleast the top 10 cyclist of that era were all caught using performance enhancing drugs yet he still won 7 straight, so u can’t discount team strategy, training, and skills. In my book he is still the best in the last 50 years
@@jlconferido no. there is an iconic picture of him relaxing on his sofa, watching TV, with all 7 TdF yellow jersy's above the mantle on the fireplace. how does that saying go again: "possession is 9/10 of the law", or some shit....
Back in 96 up until this day Lance Armstrong has been my inspiration. Love riding my bike and would do it every day. If I didn’t have to work I pump in some serious mileage but no I’m not as fast as Armstrong. 53-year-old female, still still going strong.
Man, I still love Phil ligget, Paul Sherwen, and the glory days. How could you not love Pantani, Ullrich, and Armstrong! And they're all still trying to outdo the other teams in every way.
Nobody denies that he worked hard, nobody denies that he was a talented cyclist and nobody denies that in this era, everyone was doping. The reasons he's vilified are that he and his teams took doping to new professional levels (ever wonder why people who went to different teams immediately got caught?). He roomed with new team members to make sure they were on board. He denied it for years and destroyed people to preserve himself. He's a narcissist, a cheat and a bully but he was certainly an exceptional cyclist.
Lance's place as the face of the doping era in cycling is somewhat unfair given its prevalence at the time, but at the same time, he was so sanctimonious about being clean that he bought himself that place.
? u missed his thousands of interviews obviously..... beeing a total asshole and more. he crushed people left and right. only after years of lies he came clear - to the point everything was already out. stop setting him on one stage with other dopers. no one was such a stupid idiot WHILST doping
No disrespect to you but what was he supposed to say !!! If he's guilty of anything it's being a Smug Prick But we've all been one of those at sometime of our lives 🤣🤣
@@kar102030 It is a cliché fanboy reaction to deflect Lance ultra guilt on other riders. They want to make it sound as if it was an even playing field, but it was not, as thorougly descrived by Tyler Hamilton during the FBI investigation and in many interviews later. Armstrong mainly won due to his doping advantage. All others were training hard as well, even Ullrich. It is simply not true that Ullrich was not training hard.
One of my fav videos, now in the fiction section of your public library. I still use it while on the trainer…..the Motorola documentary is similar, except it’s actually about a team, and lots of great backstory. Liggett talking with Heiden always cracks me up.
I actually totally had this DVD when it came out. The rampant hidden doping that was actually going on aside (and our collective disgust at Lance's denials), it's a great look into the dedication it takes for cyclists to achieve at the world's highest level.
You're a joke..... 1) to be competive (make a living at it) it was dope....or no chance 2) EVERYONE doing it...reporter makes a statement WITH NO EVIDENCE......of course deny
I wonder how much autonomy Lance actually had in the end. A lot of Hollywood actors are essentially blackmailed into lying about steroid use because of the potential loss of investment. Not downplaying his behaviour, but theres usually people behind these stars controlling what they say and do, and failing to abide by these requirements can lead to brutal consequences.
46:54 After Lance races by Johan, you can hear him say, "WTF," at the river. I actually thought he was going to keep on riding, that would have been classic Lance!
@@tranzco1173it must be nice to live with your hands over your eyes. 99% of them were all doing it. But the media went after the guy at the top, of course. Then, they tell the small brains, like you, that it is only Lance Armstrong cheating and he ruined the sport! Must be nice to be a naive lemming.
Hi there, thank you for the up load, always good to look back and watch lance and team and take on training to improve one owns cycling. thank you again.
I don't care about the doping. He will always be the best for me, ever. I can't never forget the way he made me feel while watching him on the tour de France. Nobody can't take that away from us not even Lance himself.
Hb doesn't do that much. You still need to develop huge vo2 max to saturate those Hbs with oxygen. Hb of 14-16 is quite common finding in normal people. Even non athletic women and old people. I have an Hb of 14. I cannot go beyond 23Km/h on an avg on a flat road. Lance was a phenomenal athlete. Phenomenal.
I was playing basketball, football, track and chasing girs in 1993. I also road a bike on occasion, but cycling was dead in the US at the time.. no one cared for it. Once Lance started to appear on the news is when Lance inspired me to ride. I saved all my money to purchase a Trek and then eventually raced in a custom Ben Serotta Ti, Campy Record, Campy Shamal wheels, and Time Equip Pro pedals. Jan Ullrich also inspired me for challenging Lance, and that is why I only ride Campagnolo components to date. Im 48 years old now and have been riding ever since. Cycling has helped me age well and, most importantly, has kept me away from the Docs office. I currently own 5 bikes, ride 300+ miles a week, and can average 350 watts for over an hour. I've made mistakes throughout my life, I think we all have or will at some point... why can't Lance make a mistake? He's human, after all? Thank you, Lance!
lausace may he may have been using EPO to “cheat” as you put it, but almost the entirety of the peloton was so I feel this was a levelling of the playing field and he still came out on top
@@dumbleduke4225 No it was not a level playing field - that is the biggest whataboutism and deception by Armstrong fanboys and butthurt Muricans. Tyler Hamilton said it VERY CLEARLY, and you obviously are so uneducated and dumb that you don't know shit about the results of the investigations into the Armstrong mafia. Armstrong won mainly because of his doping advantage which he pushed with mafia-esque methods. Hamilton gave detailed descriptions how it was never an even playing field.
Lance made me get into shape and since I am closer in age to him also helped my confidence. many including myself need to thank him and it's sad there are angry people .. they have nothing to be angry about.
Awesome post mate and great docco. People forget - doping or not - Lance had to put in a fuck load of effort to win those titles - more than most of us would ever put in over the course of our whole lives. And the big question is - how many other people in the same tours were taking something as well!!
funny the logical leaps people take to try and justify their love for armstrong. the answer to your question is "some, but not most of them." and the "some" are cheating shits, just like armstrong!
Что это за допинг Л.Армстронга,когда на всех этапах он выигрывает пол колеса. Я бы принял такой допинг,чтобы финишировать с преимуществом не менее целого велосипеда.14.12.2023 г. Ч.Н.
Watching the TdF with Lance pushed my road cycling to another level.... although Il LOVE mountain biking more. Anyway, I enjoyed watching the races during his reign. In spite of the doping that was going on, you still have to ride thousands of miles to train, you still have to be on the bike pedaling up mountains for hours and you still have to ride 21 stages. I was excited the first time I raced 112 miles on one day... lol. I am and forever will be a cyclist and at 60 I can still ride hard and actually feel mentally down if I go more a 5 days without riding. It's my meditation, my medicine, my mental therapy. If I ever ran into Lance, I'd still smile, shake his hand (or fist bump) and be all stupid and excited meeting him. Ride safe.
I bought my trek bikes bcause of Lance! Still love him but I have learned never to put people on pedestals again. Ever! He is human, not super human. I have tapes of all his TDFs. HE climbed all those mtns, doped or not. He did it, it was a joy to watch!!❤
After the Lemond era, I never felt that cycling reached that peak again in the Armstrong era or subsequently. I’d like to believe we’re back to actual athletic competition, particularly with some of the more sportsmanlike moments of the Pogacar-Vingegaard era.
That's two rides stopped by roads buried in snow, and one under water. Not a little snow or water either. Then you take the times he was knocked down, run off course, jumped the ditch, chased down breaks, on and on. Earned em, he did.
This is a great documentary, I am a cyclist because Lance inspired me and millions to cycle and the sport wouldn’t be the same without him. Does anyone know where I could find any of that US Postal Trek clothing they wear on the documentary? (Other than the jerseys the rest is pretty much impossible to find). If someone could help me here, that’d be great. Thanks!!
Hey, He was very committed to winning, An Animated Animal, trained like no one else. The rest I feel it is what it was. Few years back I bought my first real racing bicycle in China 🇨🇳 2018 Trek SL 6 emonda with rim brakes. My Chinese friends help me get I was an English teacher in China, also riding with the Trek team from the Trek bicycle store. Was fun miss them today they were great people. Now I am in Orlando Florida brought the bicycle to USA 🇺🇸 ride all the time. Thank you 🙏 Peace Out ✌️
I was probably the worst critic of Lance in the world but I definitely look at him in a.brighter light now, he made a lot of lives out there better and thats what every human should want to do...Glad I watched this now.
He sued people for telling the truth about his drug use. It’s not a black or white issue. I also think Lance was targeted because he was winning, even though they were all using PEDs.
Love his work ethics. The best hero of cycle sport. Thanks for posting, it's nice to revisit the old video. Very nice. Cycle sport is excellent today because of Lance.
Crazy thing: The top notch bikes from 2000 today cost about 800€ and are called "Entry Level" xD I bought a 1.000€ road bike last year - and it is better than theirs.
@@muscleendurance5190 75% of the field was doing it. My bike guy used to ride with Lance and with Rasmussen/Bogaert and he says that some guys came back from a break and gained 10% of power. Sad times but I really believe that 95% is clean nowadays, especially since sponsors would drop you so hard and even file lawsuits for defamation. What do you think?
I don't care if Lance took PEDS or not. Can't deny, Lance was the smartest cyclist in history, he trained smarter than any other cyclist, including today. He revolutionized cycling analyzing his performance, aerodynamics etc. He trained for goals. He was the hardest working in cycling history. I think it's lunacy if anyone would deny during his 7 TDF wins, Lance also trained harder than any other cyclist. Wasn't just drugs, he won those TDF.
i love how he gets mad and skeptical whenever his coach tells him he cannot go...even if there is a avalanche or flood waters...he wants to see for himself :)
I was inspired to become a serious cyclist because of Lance. I have him to thank for being a fit, healthy 55 year old. Thanks for posting.
I was inspired to become a serious drug user because of Lance. Nobody ever suspects me because I look so clean cut & have such a great job. Thanks for posting.
@Ginja Ninjaaa were ALL junkies Ginja, be it cocaine or twinkies. just remember were here on this earth to create carbon dioxide for the aliens, nothing more.... treat others as YOU wish to be treated because karma never sleeps
Started riding a bike aged about 7 got a bit serious aged 19 barely been off a bike for 46 years could say I'm hooked - on adrenaline ha ha More to do with Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche than Lance -what a worker!
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Lance ruined cycling form me. I never doped, cheated or lied when I raced. I can't understand why anybody would do that.
72 year old grandma and still knocking down 50-70 miles per day in the summer. I LOVE my bike!
89 year old here, I cycle 120 miles every day rain or shine.
Great work guys x
I’m 240 and next week I’m riding 100 miles to Alaska
I’m 52 , comfortably in my couch, this steak is juicy and soft.
That's serious going. Fair play to you. Hope I'm doing similar when I reach my 70s
I like how you've watermarked a film that isn't your property and can be watched here and on various platforms, and a film that most genuine cycling fans have already seen. Great work.
Durian rider the narcissist would not even see a problem with that. He also thinks Lance Armstrong is a God. The only person a narcissist will worship is another narcissist
@@thelucieflower317 i stumbled across this by accident, is durianrider the weird banana diet guy? The name rings a bell.
@@ricardomoonbeam8530 yeah he is. He's a piece of work for sure. I used to follow him years ago. It's funny but I stumbled across this video by accident as well!!. I am currently reading David Walsh's book 'Seven Deadly Sins', and decided to look at some footage and came across this!!
I miss the old days. Armstrong, Ullrich, Pantani. It's not the same anymore.
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Great video! Lance Armstrong is a great inspiration i also had testicular cancer and lung cancer back in 2008 it's 2023 im still cancer free cycling every day im 48 years old and feel better than when I was 35 years old!
Loved Bill Burr's stand up routine about Lance. "Our roided up guy beat your roided up guy" . If you haven't seen it, find it. Heard Lance liked it.
Which doesn't make but ok
He says our psychopath was better than your psychopath
Bill Burr is a comedian, and in this case he is totally wrong, and he probably knows it. Burr reads a lot. Tyler Hamilton and ALL OTHERS clearly said: It was NOT an even playing field.
A really HUGE part of Armstrong's tour wins were to have the best doping and to interrupt the doping of others. He did it to Telekom, to Phonak, to CSC etc.
The guy was called a psychopath in the FBI files.
My favourite was seeing George Carlin before he died and he literally walked on stage from behind the curtain and the first thing he said was "Fuck Lance Armstrong and his fuckin balls"
It wasn’t just that he cheated. He ruined the lives of anyone who tried exposing the truth. If his cheating wasn’t a big deal, why did he go after people?
Why do I watch this video every couple months, never gets old
Cycling has never been the same since the days of Lance, Jan and Pantani. Yes they were all doping but man, what a time to have been a cycling fan!
I agree, I enjoyed the cancellara Boonen era too!
It's boring now they were all at it he was just the best in his day at what was going on
All fake
Well you know what sucked? Reading about their workouts in Bicycling magazine. With Chris Carmichael saying do this and do that, so we’re out there following the plan with our intervals and heart rate monitors, but they never told us about the blood doping, HGH, and EPO parts of the plan.
@@simondolega7373 They were not all in on it. Those who didn't want to be a part of it, were out of the game in a matter of a couple of seasons. Those who were willing to cheat, "succeded".
Lance Armstrong inspired me to ride in 2001 I'm still hooked at 57 2022
Same here, now 53
All these people here saying Lance was the best ever or he dint deserve the punishment because all others were doped as well. Ok, fair argument. But remember this. Besides the cycling and him lying about doping just as others did he also attacked people that were either investigating him or told truth about him doping. He used his lawyers and money to quit them, he used tactics like a politician trying to destroy his opponent. He made life hell for witnesses and people that were not on his side. Its like Bush saying if your not on my side your the enemy and we will destroy you. No other doping user has gone on this kind of level. When other cyclist did not want to dope in his team they were out. And on top of that they would be open for smear tactics if they said anything. He took doping to another level and comparing it with the other dopers its clear to see why this narcissistic guy was handled differently in this case.
What is another side to it is the fact the important people in the organisation of world wide cycling protecting him and took the money. Armstrong corrupted the whole system at that point and they were just as corrupt as him. Thats how the world works, the suits get off. Sickening. They are still in power at cycling.
By the way, Lance was only the best because of doping, without it and every else also he would be a day cyclist winning some rides but the mountains he would not do good.
Everyone covering for him because just because he is American. If this guy way from any other nation, he wouldn’t receive any praise and would be labelled a cheater by everyone
I agree with a lot you said, however the guy was winning major triathlons as a teenager, before devoting to only cycling.
He was not the best only because of doping. All the other top riders were doping and he knew it. He doped to level the playing field.
OMG! I love this docu video. Greg Lamond inspired me to ride bike as a teen and Lance inspired me to ride and race as an adult.
Love those two guys.
Thanks for the video
Lance Armstrong was a cycling PHENOM regardless of what he, and others over the years, got caught up in. The US govt set out to take down an individual, not the problem, like what is going on in America today in the political world. European cycling could not stand they got their heads handed to them on a platter. I don't like what Lance and other cyclists did with doping, they let the pressure to win take them over. That said Lance, is one of the greatest cyclists EVER to race. The TdF, while Lance was competing, got me through FOUR knee replacement surgeries. I could not sleep due to pain so I watched every stage live and then all the rebroadcasts. Thank you!!!
To me, as a cycling fan since the late 70's, it's not the doping. In that era they all juiced. It's the sociopathic behaviour he displayed. Threatening to destroy careers, actually actively doing that and not just careers but lives. That makes him a loathsome character. Not his use of ped's which was common place at the time
@@geneharris6021 He was a cycling VENOM. 😅
Absolutely loved the start of this doco. Especially when the coach says 3 meters of snow you can't ride and Lance says "who says" So inspiring! Makes me want to get back into cycling! Thanks for posting
He could do it because he was DOPING
"who says" 😅 usada says
Yeah, give me the same drugs and I bid I can climb mount everest in 4 hours fool
@@Saoco325 you truly are a moron.
The drugs, just made everything level......the actual TRAINING.....was the difference
@@Saoco325 bet
It wasnt about the EPO Lance. It was about you. It was about how you tried to destroy people. It still is.
Ruined LeMond's relationship with Trek (Trek is at fault too).
For me, it was all the lying. Such a turd.
@@torontocitizen680295% of all professional athletes worldwide are doping. At least. Olympics, FIFA, everything. If you disagree you are naive or intellectually shorthanded
Did you watch the recent Netflix documentary about him? I had to turn it off. He’s just disgusting in his justifications and denials and soft-pedaling of his excuses.
LeMonds' a giant douche.
Cry babies ... all of you.
Dude was the best... comes back from cancer treatment.. then wins the tour 7 years straight.. I loved the tour when Lance was in charge... so exciting..imspired me to ride too.. 57 and i am on a cycle
It's because of Lance that I got into cycling. He was just the fall guy. Everyone used something but they didn't get caught because they didn't win. Lance is still the seven time champion.
@@stanlee-eq7lu Remember that Lance destroyed people that tried to expose his doping.
The dude is a full blown sociopath.
Lance motivated my 50 year old butt to get out and ride off 30 lbs of fat. I even went to see Lance and Le Tour 2001. I'm still riding. Thanks Lance!
The Man. Started riding my Trek Chromoly in 82’ and still riding my Madone today at 68.
Just started watching, I can tell this documentary is going to be dope!
😂😂😂
I love the Tour. Such a fantastic event. Dope or no dope, this event is grueling and will take you to the edge
With no dope, a lot closer to the edge
Nice work. This captures the members of the early U.S. Postal team in closeup conversations. The George Hincapie footage alone is worth the view. It also highlights the coaching process and documents the initial resistance to radios by the riders.
He was still unbelievable. He did what he did but so did everyone else. He was the best. You can't take that work ethic away from he. He worked his ass off.
YES, The Addition of Super Performance factors ONLY made him more; a Superman, unbeatable; ie, had "The Experts" NOT finally figured out What he/they were accomplishing with their
super science; an amalgam of the premium knowledge, research and formulation designed to be subtle; he (Lance) would Still be Celebrated as the Greatest Athlete of 21st Century.
Putting aside how “Everyone else does it” is the excuse a 5 year old uses, if it wasn’t a big deal that he cheated, why did he go after and try to ruin the reputation or livelihood of anyone who tried exposing the truth?
Didn't Lance himself say the same thing when people asked what he was on?
Lance Armstrong and a 2001 Passat TDI. It's like a superhero scandal origin story times two.
Push aside the negatives and enjoy this. This is awesome. Disappointment came years later, but inspiration wins out 100 to 1. Lance and co did great things. Well done Lance, well done.
"Inspiration wins out 100 to 1" The motto of Joseph Goebbels. No, what wins out every single time is reality, and the reality is that Armstrong was one of the biggest liars and cheats in history, despite being an incredible athlete. He personally betrayed every single honest athlete in his sport, and is lucky to get away with only half a castration.
They all used performance enhancing substances! It was the norm. Companies and the industry used him to profit billions and then dumped him!
@@georgiaguardian4696 a scape goat they hid behind that's the real disgusting thing
@@bepismestari6005 el único dopado es armstrong??? Ignorante o envidioso. Otra cosa, el comunismo es mejor que goebbels???? Que gentuza hay suelta.
@@bepismestari6005lol...get a clue...they were all the same. Lance just took the fall for everyone since he was at the top of the mountain.
Thanx my friend, for the doco, making my day...
Long live Lance..Lol.
Get out and ride indeed.
Great vid BTW.
✌️❤️😁
If your going to show someone elses work without permission you can have the decency to give the film makers credit.
Why do you care?
Agreed; pretty scummy to filch a lot of others peoples time, effort, work and edit their name and credits out making out it's a rare documentary and slapping their watermark/URL on it instead.
Shitty click-baiting and theft to answer Personal Accounts snide comment.
@@runninrebel1520 This is a documentary which has been widely available for many years; all that has been done is a cut and edit to remove the details of those who made it and are due the credit.
It's also had a Watermark/URL added on top of the documentary that does not belong there; which is leading people to a web store for someone not responsible for the content in the documentary.
Scamming and click baiting people for personal gain while not crediting those who made it.
I agree. Scumbag move. The movie is called a road to Paris.
@@runninrebel1520 morals?
Loved it! Can’t wipe the smile off my face. Always was and always will be a fan. Your final comments nailed it.
Armstrong is a lying sociopath who will not hesitate to trash the reputation of anyone who points out how he cheated.
I bought this on DVD back in 2006 I think. One of my favourite documentaries. Overcoming was was another one I bought, the story of team CSC in 2004 and in my opinion the best overall TDF documentary there is.
Lance was, is and always will be my biggest cycling inspiration EVER.
I even watched the ads with pleasure. That was awesome. Nice to see Victor Hugo representing Colombia.
Documentaries are excellent, thanks for sharing!
Great video, about a great team and great riders
Bottom line, he turned pro as a tri athlete at 15. His Vo2 max was one of the highest ever recorded. Everyone was on EPO and had a hema of about 47 to 50. He was a hyper competitor and a type A personality. He would have wone even if everyone was natural. He was a gifted endurance freak who could suffer. Was he an A hole? For sure, but he had to fall from grace to become a better human, I think he has made tremendous strides. I think he has put the monster in the corner and has learned a lot about humanity.
Good Comment.
Bottom line...he cheated
@@serinagaleong3781 So did everyone else in the top 10 Tour finishers for like the last 30 years. What's your point?
if he would have won if he didn't dope, then why did he dope. He bullied those who WERE clean (Simeoni). Many riders spoke out against doping and they were ostracized.
@@serinagaleong3781 is it cheating if everyone is doing it? I know what your answer will be but cyclists have been doping for 100 years. I would feel differently if it were just Lance. It was literally EVERYONE.
Thank you for the time you have spent sharing this great documentary 🐐
I have this on DVD and always think of it when everyone wants to dismiss him because of the later admissions. And yet they only talk about Lance using meds, never everyone else when they were ALL doing it but they werent all doing this training. This is how he surged when he needed and didnt when he didnt need to. His cancer taught him its all about numbers and discipline for long periods of time. Plus, he had the best team, everyone won it for him.
Yes, i've seen this one too before. You are correct. Most of the Tour riders were doping. However, this does not diminish the accomplishments of Lance. Seven in a row! And had he not retired its certainly possible he could have won several more because the guy retired for 3 or 4 years and came back at age 37 to podium in third place. No one gives him credit for literally riding the whole Tour in the early spring to check out all the nuances of the course and certainly all of the climbs. Every year he had different team members and through all of that generally the whole team remained intact the entire tour and no one got sick or crashed out. i only remember Lance having one bad day (Joux Plaine as I recall as be bonked because he did not take in enough fluids and calories) but he survived and came back to win the Tour. A remarkable achievement. He was just the fall guy for the entire doping scandals. Other sports (like baseball) were selective in who they punished as well and other "users" got a free pass. i think because Lance was American and at times prickly the Europeans took great glee in going after him.
This is the most unserious fanboy comment one can imagine.
All dopers were being questioned by reporters and whistleblowers, and sometimes arrested and paraded in front of the public as such. You either haven't heard about the Festina Scandal, Operation Puerto and what happened to careers of riders like Pantani and Virenque - in which case you have no idea about road cycling and are just one person's fan - or are ignoring that history to construct this victim narrative for the person who is the least fitting for the role of a victim from that era.
Then another claim, that supposedly it was only Armstrong who was "doing this training", when you don't get to even compete anywhere near the front of the field in grand tours unless you do all of what he is doing here.
And then supposedly in other teams the domestiques rode for themselves and not for team leaders, when the latter is how every single team operated and operates.
Lazy, ignorant clichés in service of gushing for a deeply unethical personality who was not only engaged in promoting himself to his fans as a clean athlete while doing the opposite, but went far beyond the other dopers by gaining support of influential people to attack and sink careers and destroy lives of those who questioned him and campaigned for truth on doping in cycling. Like the kids say, cringe.
@SvalbardSleeperDistrict you are just as bad as the guy you are attacking as your comment is biased with your obvious hatred towards Lance. It must have felt like daggers piercing your gut with every win Lance pulled off. Get real, we all know that everyone of these riders were doping along with taking a multitude of banned substances. It was an even playing field for all. Lance was just better at it than the rest.
@@roadcyclist1 Should I wait for any actual points against any actual arguments in my reply, or did you arrive here to make vague, random, unqualified, irrelevant claims?
Lance has the best pro thinking ever. An inspiration for me for many years and still now. The best
I read his book during my own struggles with Cancer and it inspired me to stay strong and survive. After he was busted for drug use didn't they struggle to find someone in his races that wasnt doing drugs ?
@Charles Vane it seems we project our ideals/values naively regarding how the world really works at the highest levels of performance (whether sport, business, politics, entertainment, etc). Clearly a human’s desire & commitment to win, be “the best,” (for the few who can reach such levels) has a dark side, and necessitates choosing not whether, but when to cross ethical-ideological lines. For me Lance struggled heroically and sometimes persevered pathetically, but always 100% humanly. Much to learn re “reality” following his journey…
@Charles Vane They all used performance enhancing substances! It was the norm. Companies and the industry used him to profit billions and then dumped him!
I give that book to my uncle when he first found out that he had it. The average life expectancy was 5 to 10yrs. It has come back 15yrs later and the doctors have stopped it again but anyway I believe that book has a big part in his determination to fight. The odds Lance had to beat cancer was greater than the odds of most people winning the tour ( opinion ) but that's what defines Lance to me.
Great documentary and commentary! Hope you're well!
I have the most love and respect for Lance. None of us, at the time, understood the depth of the Doping that was going on within nearly all the top professional teams. I understand, now, the mentality of having to dope to win against the other dopers. My older eyes have a different perspective now. I'm no longer the blind faith ingenue that looked up to his hero and was so upset when the scandal broke. Lance did what he did. I have regained my respect and admiration for Lance Armstrong.
Awesome video mate
Loved Lance then still love him now he was just the fall guy, there still doping today allbeit ketones or cotizones. Thx Durian great video.
If pogacar isn't doping I'll eat my hat lol
Looks like dope to me
@@joseftullen6372 Brilliant cabbage salad in Slovenia😜
Lance is the Best athlete EVER .in the end of the video, ontop the mountain, when lance said his gonna go 10kilometer down and ride 10 back up.then the coach say to the other guy, that is how you win a tour de france..come train in this weather ... then the coach said,,, but no- one sees this.....meaning the effort and training, Lance put in... Brilliant...
He’s the best liar ever.
Incorrect
LOL he's not even the best cyclist ever...not even top 3. Judge by the palmares, he is well behind Indurain Hinault and Merckx.
He was the smartest and most exciting athlete I ever had the pleasure of watching. I never missed a second when he was on a bike.
Excellent Doc. Thank you.
that intro gets me every time - "there is no way you can ride" "who says that?"
Lance worked his butt off to win the tour. People have no idea how hard it is to win the tour especially in those days. You work that hard you have no choice but to do what EVERY rider was doing.
Incorrect blablabla
Amazing that they could produce this film without ever watching it.
Dope video
Greatest Tour De France champion ever. In a day when everyone was doping, Lance destroyed them all. Forever the champion of champions.
Truely inspiring piece of history right here and what a fantastic soundtrack.
Lance brought a sense of magic that same way most super stars do when they step on the big stage. The world watched cycling when Lance was involved. I know he was doping. The winners or atleast the top 10 cyclist of that era were all caught using performance enhancing drugs yet he still won 7 straight, so u can’t discount team strategy, training, and skills. In my book he is still the best in the last 50 years
💯💯💯
The best cheat in the last 50 years.
@@jlconferido well, the 7 TdF yellow winners jerseys are still hanging on the wall in his house.
@@siggifreud812 have you been to his house lately?
@@jlconferido no. there is an iconic picture of him relaxing on his sofa, watching TV, with all 7 TdF yellow jersy's above the mantle on the fireplace. how does that saying go again: "possession is 9/10 of the law", or some shit....
Awesome video
Lance is a great athlete, Don't care what anyone says.
Back in 96 up until this day Lance Armstrong has been my inspiration. Love riding my bike and would do it every day. If I didn’t have to work I pump in some serious mileage but no I’m not as fast as Armstrong. 53-year-old female, still still going strong.
Crazy to se these guys race the Tour without helmets.
Loved seeing the care they put into the riders' food bags at 10:15
This really was a great documentary. Thanks for posting DR!
Watching this, I'm about to pull a bike out of storage at 59 and ride again
I've seen this before. seems like the watermark is used incorrectly.
Man, I still love Phil ligget, Paul Sherwen, and the glory days. How could you not love Pantani, Ullrich, and Armstrong! And they're all still trying to outdo the other teams in every way.
Sorry, but late 60s to early 80s where my h more diverse, competitive and interesting imo.
Nobody denies that he worked hard, nobody denies that he was a talented cyclist and nobody denies that in this era, everyone was doping. The reasons he's vilified are that he and his teams took doping to new professional levels (ever wonder why people who went to different teams immediately got caught?). He roomed with new team members to make sure they were on board. He denied it for years and destroyed people to preserve himself. He's a narcissist, a cheat and a bully but he was certainly an exceptional cyclist.
Thanks for posting
This doc was dope. Roid up there with the best of em 🤙
I see what you did there. Clever.
Lance also campaigned for bike lanes across America. It was his passion project.
Lance's place as the face of the doping era in cycling is somewhat unfair given its prevalence at the time, but at the same time, he was so sanctimonious about being clean that he bought himself that place.
? u missed his thousands of interviews obviously..... beeing a total asshole and more. he crushed people left and right. only after years of lies he came clear - to the point everything was already out. stop setting him on one stage with other dopers. no one was such a stupid idiot WHILST doping
No disrespect to you but what was he supposed to say !!!
If he's guilty of anything it's being a Smug Prick
But we've all been one of those at sometime of our lives 🤣🤣
NO its not. Yes others was doped. But Lance toke it to new lvls. You know shit about cycling if dont know this.
When a person you KNOW IS DOPING......but he says YOU ARE, while he lies about his doping....
Yeah, I'd do everything to destroy the guy
@@kar102030 It is a cliché fanboy reaction to deflect Lance ultra guilt on other riders. They want to make it sound as if it was an even playing field, but it was not, as thorougly descrived by Tyler Hamilton during the FBI investigation and in many interviews later. Armstrong mainly won due to his doping advantage. All others were training hard as well, even Ullrich. It is simply not true that Ullrich was not training hard.
One of my fav videos, now in the fiction section of your public library. I still use it while on the trainer…..the Motorola documentary is similar, except it’s actually about a team, and lots of great backstory. Liggett talking with Heiden always cracks me up.
I actually totally had this DVD when it came out. The rampant hidden doping that was actually going on aside (and our collective disgust at Lance's denials), it's a great look into the dedication it takes for cyclists to achieve at the world's highest level.
You're a joke.....
1) to be competive (make a living at it) it was dope....or no chance
2) EVERYONE doing it...reporter makes a statement WITH NO EVIDENCE......of course deny
I wonder how much autonomy Lance actually had in the end. A lot of Hollywood actors are essentially blackmailed into lying about steroid use because of the potential loss of investment. Not downplaying his behaviour, but theres usually people behind these stars controlling what they say and do, and failing to abide by these requirements can lead to brutal consequences.
Watched on TV each day of the race,got home from work & watched again.
I love this documentary, I remember seeing it ages ago,and there is a longer version, good stuff all the way 👊👊👊
46:54 After Lance races by Johan, you can hear him say, "WTF," at the river. I actually thought he was going to keep on riding, that would have been classic Lance!
classic lance is taking so much HGH he gave himself cancer.
@@tranzco1173it must be nice to live with your hands over your eyes. 99% of them were all doing it. But the media went after the guy at the top, of course. Then, they tell the small brains, like you, that it is only Lance Armstrong cheating and he ruined the sport! Must be nice to be a naive lemming.
Hi there, thank you for the up load, always good to look back and watch lance and team and take on training to improve one owns cycling. thank you again.
I don't care about the doping. He will always be the best for me, ever. I can't never forget the way he made me feel while watching him on the tour de France. Nobody can't take that away from us not even Lance himself.
He has too many ego problems. Basically he a liar and a crook.😡
He's a criminal periid
@@lukespack Tragic minds will fall along the path to disgrace.
Just start at 4:23 and start laughing. This is an interesting documentary. "The only thing we have taken is a bunch of hard work..."
Hb doesn't do that much. You still need to develop huge vo2 max to saturate those Hbs with oxygen.
Hb of 14-16 is quite common finding in normal people. Even non athletic women and old people. I have an Hb of 14. I cannot go beyond 23Km/h on an avg on a flat road. Lance was a phenomenal athlete. Phenomenal.
@@Beelzebubba2024 avg 23km/h on what distance
He can climb on epo
I was playing basketball, football, track and chasing girs in 1993. I also road a bike on occasion, but cycling was dead in the US at the time.. no one cared for it. Once Lance started to appear on the news is when Lance inspired me to ride. I saved all my money to purchase a Trek and then eventually raced in a custom Ben Serotta Ti, Campy Record, Campy Shamal wheels, and Time Equip Pro pedals. Jan Ullrich also inspired me for challenging Lance, and that is why I only ride Campagnolo components to date. Im 48 years old now and have been riding ever since. Cycling has helped me age well and, most importantly, has kept me away from the Docs office. I currently own 5 bikes, ride 300+ miles a week, and can average 350 watts for over an hour. I've made mistakes throughout my life, I think we all have or will at some point... why can't Lance make a mistake? He's human, after all? Thank you, Lance!
No matter what people said about Lance,he still one of the best ever.
Becouse of Dr. Ferrari. Without him Lance wasn't shit.
absolute bollocks dirty fucking cheat
lausace may he may have been using EPO to “cheat” as you put it, but almost the entirety of the peloton was so I feel this was a levelling of the playing field and he still came out on top
@@mattseaman5397the rest of the riders were all using too and still couldn't beat him. Makes you mad, hey?
@@dumbleduke4225 No it was not a level playing field - that is the biggest whataboutism and deception by Armstrong fanboys and butthurt Muricans. Tyler Hamilton said it VERY CLEARLY, and you obviously are so uneducated and dumb that you don't know shit about the results of the investigations into the Armstrong mafia.
Armstrong won mainly because of his doping advantage which he pushed with mafia-esque methods. Hamilton gave detailed descriptions how it was never an even playing field.
Lance made me get into shape and since I am closer in age to him also helped my confidence. many including myself need to thank him and it's sad there are angry people .. they have nothing to be angry about.
Guy Lubovitch Lance made me get into doping
Stop It...
Awesome post mate and great docco.
People forget - doping or not - Lance had to put in a fuck load of effort to win those titles - more than most of us would ever put in over the course of our whole lives. And the big question is - how many other people in the same tours were taking something as well!!
Yes totally agree! However, personally the reason I don't respect him for anything is he went out to destroy people's lives! Absolutely disgusting!
he was an average cyclist before he started doping...
he took so much hgh he gave himself cancer. that is a lot of hgh, a lot of effort.
Like EVERY other rider....Bullshit..
funny the logical leaps people take to try and justify their love for armstrong.
the answer to your question is "some, but not most of them."
and the "some" are cheating shits, just like armstrong!
Что это за допинг Л.Армстронга,когда на всех этапах он выигрывает пол колеса. Я бы принял такой допинг,чтобы финишировать с преимуществом не менее целого велосипеда.14.12.2023 г. Ч.Н.
Watching the TdF with Lance pushed my road cycling to another level.... although Il LOVE mountain biking more. Anyway, I enjoyed watching the races during his reign. In spite of the doping that was going on, you still have to ride thousands of miles to train, you still have to be on the bike pedaling up mountains for hours and you still have to ride 21 stages. I was excited the first time I raced 112 miles on one day... lol. I am and forever will be a cyclist and at 60 I can still ride hard and actually feel mentally down if I go more a 5 days without riding. It's my meditation, my medicine, my mental therapy. If I ever ran into Lance, I'd still smile, shake his hand (or fist bump) and be all stupid and excited meeting him. Ride safe.
Lies again? LA Liga Gold Yellow
@@NazriB armstrong is the best cyclist ever
Best of Cycling! Thx. you, lG Fleder.
I bought my trek bikes bcause of Lance! Still love him but I have learned never to put people on pedestals again. Ever! He is human, not super human. I have tapes of all his TDFs. HE climbed all those mtns, doped or not. He did it, it was a joy to watch!!❤
Wow. Really was the best Lance documentary that I had never seen. Thank you for posting this! Muchas gracias. 😀
Haven't seen that in years. thanks for sharing
After the Lemond era, I never felt that cycling reached that peak again in the Armstrong era or subsequently. I’d like to believe we’re back to actual athletic competition, particularly with some of the more sportsmanlike moments of the Pogacar-Vingegaard era.
You think the big names in big $$ sport are natty? ❤️😂
Best cyclist ever!! They were all doing the same, he was just the strongest. Go check all his contenders one by one. Respect the man from Texas
He was a crook cheating soab
That's two rides stopped by roads buried in snow, and one under water. Not a little snow or water either. Then you take the times he was knocked down, run off course, jumped the ditch, chased down breaks, on and on. Earned em, he did.
This is a great documentary, I am a cyclist because Lance inspired me and millions to cycle and the sport wouldn’t be the same without him.
Does anyone know where I could find any of that US Postal Trek clothing they wear on the documentary? (Other than the jerseys the rest is pretty much impossible to find). If someone could help me here, that’d be great. Thanks!!
AH! I actually bought this DVD when it came out. Still have it in some shoebox somewhere.
Hey, He was very committed to winning, An Animated Animal, trained like no one else. The rest I feel it is what it was. Few years back I bought my first real racing bicycle in China 🇨🇳 2018 Trek SL 6 emonda with rim brakes. My Chinese friends help me get I was an English teacher in China, also riding with the Trek team from the Trek bicycle store. Was fun miss them today they were great people. Now I am in Orlando Florida brought the bicycle to USA 🇺🇸 ride all the time. Thank you 🙏
Peace Out ✌️
If you're a cycling fan, you've seen this documentary. It's a good one.
it's 2019 and Lance is still a Badass, you do the time and the grind...thats not a short cut. It is and always will be as it is done!!!!
I was probably the worst critic of Lance in the world but I definitely look at him in a.brighter light now, he made a lot of lives out there better and thats what every human should want to do...Glad I watched this now.
@@williamteasle He destroyed many people as well, don't forget that, it was more about him, he didn't care.
He sued people for telling the truth about his drug use. It’s not a black or white issue. I also think Lance was targeted because he was winning, even though they were all using PEDs.
Love his work ethics. The best hero of cycle sport. Thanks for posting, it's nice to revisit the old video. Very nice.
Cycle sport is excellent today because of Lance.
Imagine thinking every other pro was not a drugs at that time lmao
Love the sarcasm
Thank you Durianrider, for filming and directing this film, the whole documentary , you are a great man.
'Who says that ?' Classic
coke does
Lance is the man!!!!!
Who said that?
Crazy thing: The top notch bikes from 2000 today cost about 800€ and are called "Entry Level" xD
I bought a 1.000€ road bike last year - and it is better than theirs.
Its not about the bike....its about the epo!
well 2000 is like 21 years ago. its like riding a 1979 bike in 2000. (damn I feel so old)
@@muscleendurance5190 75% of the field was doing it. My bike guy used to ride with Lance and with Rasmussen/Bogaert and he says that some guys came back from a break and gained 10% of power. Sad times but I really believe that 95% is clean nowadays, especially since sponsors would drop you so hard and even file lawsuits for defamation. What do you think?
800 euro my ass !
@@plexoduss an American female cyclist got suspended last week for steroids!
Great documentary, seems like a second part is missing.
I don't care if Lance took PEDS or not. Can't deny, Lance was the smartest cyclist in history, he trained smarter than any other cyclist, including today. He revolutionized cycling analyzing his performance, aerodynamics etc. He trained for goals. He was the hardest working in cycling history. I think it's lunacy if anyone would deny during his 7 TDF wins, Lance also trained harder than any other cyclist. Wasn't just drugs, he won those TDF.
Lance. Seven.times in a row TDF Champion against all training in a similar fashion. The best ever..
Excellent documentary.
i love how he gets mad and skeptical whenever his coach tells him he cannot go...even if there is a avalanche or flood waters...he wants to see for himself :)
That’s acting. He wants to show he has something other riders don’t. Maybe he does but it isn’t hard work. All the guys train at 100%
Probably best part😂 "they said you can't go.. -lance, who said that😡"