The Best of The Blue Train-2003 Luz Ardiden
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Stage 15 of the 2003 campaign had it all. Ullrich putting Lance into danger on the Col du Tourmalet, Mayo attacks and a infamous tangle of a musette bag. We also catch up with PowerDot ambassador Josh Bridges to talk Navy Seals and his CrossFit career.
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“I’m glad your brought that up - cos we just about to watch you hit the deck “ 😂😂😂 go on George
Thank you Lance,JB,Johan and George you guys are the best in the business.Lovin best of the blue train.This is THE BEST STAGE EVER!!Lance your a Beast brother💪💪
King of the road !!
There be nobody like Lance Armstrong again in cycling this is 1 of a kind !
My wife and I stood for 10 hours freezing in the cold rain 150 meters from the finish in Nantes, right where Lance pumped his fist before the finish line, knowing he just won the TdF. There was a French woman who stood next to us for the 10, cold, rainy hours, as soon as Richard Virenque finished a couple guys before Lance, she left and did not wait another 10 minutes to watch Jan or Lance finish.... LOL: the French loved Virenque.
Lance you're the GOAT dude! Still a massive inspiration ^^. Thanks for the great shows man keep it up!
Well said! Couldn't agree more!
2003 Luz Ardinden I WAS THERE!!! 3k to the finish
Nice! How fast do they ride in person?!
I was in Alpe d'Huez, Gap, Marseille..best tour. Ullrich fan..I was so sad
I was in a school in school back then ( India). Lance Armstrong photo crossing the finishing line in the yellow shirt, spreading his arm out - was spread across the entire first page. The whole sports section talked about him..
And years (about 16-18) later I search about Lance Armstrong. This guy is still inspiring. Good person bad person don't care. A fierce competitor, the never say die attitude. He is now more inspiring than ever before. He is A man nuked thousand times over by the world and still stands straight. If that's not a character, I don't know what is.
Loved watching the 2003 Tour. So much drama. Lance was a machine. Another great podcast.
These reviews are awesome. Loving Lance’s & the teams work. Keep em coming!
Love these podcasts.
Grateful for Blue Train video’s! You can really feel just how hard this year was! We were screaming at TV for yall in that year! Johan is very impressive, and is just one of the nicest guys. Way to Suffer Lance, George and USPT!! Of course we love yall in Texas!!!
Not a word about Tyler? Is there an eleaphant in the room? Its very clear when he asks the guys on the front to wait. An act of spotsmanship
I would bet that Lance in the production meeting made it clear no mention of Tyler. smh. Thats unfortunate, clearly lance still holds a grudge. I thought he had spoken to all the people he wronged over the years and apologized. I watched this tour live, and have read all their books- lance, johan, george, and tyler... Tyler clearly was the one who slowed the peloton down, and lance even thanked him that day after watching the replay (according to tyler) for being a "class act". smh
I thought the very same thing. Tyler slowed the pace, as I recall he made Ulrich aware of Lances crash.
So we're clear, Tyler was indicted and he had no option but to tell the truth when he was asked. Additionally, he said team CSC was the most doping team...
He made the motion to wait, but they were not attacking master of the obvious
Exactly. Tyler is a classy guy but helped bringing down Lance.
The last couple of kms of this race is what beast mode means. Jeez.
Thank you, Tyler Hamilton.
You are a great man.
Thank you Lance, for a great content/format, and stunningly hard life work
what a priceless gift to be able to watch this with lance narrating
Keep 'em coming! Such a great era cycling with all the big personalities and team tactics. Its' been pretty boring ever since....
One of my favorite Paul Sherwin quotes, when lance came out of his pedal after the crash,"he nearly lost his manhood on the crossbar!"
47:26 Tyler told everyone to wait. Ullrich has waited anyway. You can clearly see that. No idea why someone does even question it ...
"We were hitting the breaks in switchbacks at times" Absolutely classic!!!
The helmet controversy between George and Lance is funny and even funnier Johan saying “ok, let’s get back to the race guys.” This little interaction between the three guys at around 40:45 is too funny. Thanks for the chuckles. Love your content!
Hello Lance, great tour in 2003, i am a jan ullrich fan since i start watching cycling, when do you invite jan to your podcast and talk about all of your battles and cycling today? Props
"Lets hope your internet gets some,more momentum too George." Got me....😂
Lance wearing the 200x magnifier glasses......jk. i wear em too
Not surprised to see Lance still pisses George off occasionally 😂
This was my favourite of Lance's Tour wins, and probably my favourite of his stage wins. Epic stuff.
Hincapie may not have good internet but he was out here flexing with the Richard Mille
Define cool - Ullrich in that Bianchi kit.
George, can you just check that when you were chopping logs you didn't chop through the fiber optic cable? 😂😂😂
Luz Ardiden 2003 the best stage of all time
George's internet is hopeless.
So awesome!
"Anger is a Gift" is part of a Rage Against the Machine lyric.
Only listening to Battle of Los Angeles in the last week, cracking album, one of the most innovative bands in the history of music, elements of Rock, Jazz, metal, rapp, funk, hip hop. Incredible band.
I’m remember watching this in HD TV in Belgium and really hope that quality is still preserved. RUclips recap of Bluetrain is excellent, but the video quality shown makes the production look like it’s just coming out of black and white. Having the ability to see the sweat mingled on Jan’s freckled face during that stage was awesome to view.
Definitely waited for you 👏
I really admire George for doing all of these vlogs while living on the dark side of the moon. "Obe Wan, is that you?" Wow, the guy needs some bandwidth.
Two Legends
Great show. Joshua Bridges what a guy. Prefer this diverse longer format too.
Luz Ardiden is your finest Race....After you crashed: I was cheering you back into the race. Then the last few kilometers. I was on my feet screaming. The neighbors could hear me cheering. I was dancing when you went for the time line... Lance Do it again. I don't watch sports.. But I did you...
I just watched Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, John McEnroe, and Ivan Lendl talk for a long time about how they competed against each other. I’d love to hear Jan’s comments on what he was thinking and feeling at these moments. Might be good for Jan.
Ullrich gave him the look
Not my favorite USPS stage, but close. Watched it live and was just amazed by the crash and then win. My favorite will always be Sestriere ‘99.
Is George wearing a Richard Mille? Jesus.
I love this guy... I love Jan Ullrich... I miss the excitement of the Lance years in cycling. The Tour is boring like it was during the Indurain years again.
Quite fascinating re-visit. Watching these classic TDF stages, with the great commentary is very interesting. Now, how about considering this, maybe discuss some of that era's Peloton etiquette, the style, the class, the patron role etc. Probably much of which is no longer part of contemporary road racing, but most certainly a part of road racing back then. Keep these coming, all great stuff. Oh yeah, that kid who caused the crash, maybe you can locate him, and have him on the show...
I'm looking forward to the 04 tour, probably Lance's most dominant win
@34:43 Wauwser, look at those motorbikes! This is basically stayering behind a peloton of motorbikes! Insane.
Miss the old epo days
Hope to meet you all one day if you ever over in UK 🇬🇧 commentating.
Bruyneel is one of the most tactic, smartest DSs in the world. Shame for the ban.
George´s wifi is crap. XIX century
Increíble !!!!
Thank you! !! =)
World's Best!!!!!!♡
Lance Armstrong -TOUR OF FRANCE 2021!
Bad to the bone GOAT
Where's Ulrich? you promised to put him live, in the next episode!!! I imagine David Walsh's stomach, must burn with hate, every time you release a new video....jeje
GOOD JOB guys!!!
Apparently Jans not in a good place right now.
David Walsh has moved on from all of this. Got other things to occupy himself with. Maybe it’s time you did the same.
When did the “new” road open on the west side of the Tourmalet...?
My favourite sporting psychopath will always be this man because he didn't kill anyone with his bare hands, yet.
Awesome. Where’s High Brew?!?! Love that shit!!!
God bless the guy, but Lance has an ego the size of Manhattan . The friendly digs at George and his tendency to cut him off mid-sentence is an obvious reminder that LA is the boss. This shit is fascinating to watch. Meanwhile, poor ol' JB might as well be wondering about laundry and what he's going to have for dinner. Johan is the only guy that Lance seems to truly respect. He gets to have his say without interruption and seems to be the only guy Lance goes to with sincere questions. I am far from a fan of Armstrong, but good for him to keep on truckin'. He is a marvel, that is for sure.
Thats not truth. George is his paw, thats why they play and fuck each other all the time. Watch other videos, where George pick hard on Lance
Lance loves George
@@christoph1246 No doubt. But love and respect can at times be mutually exclusive.
Ego - confidence
The commentary with Phil Ligget and the late great Paul Sherwen at the time, which I'm not sure was live, , Phil said right before Lance's crash, "Armstrong is waiting for someone to pull in the flag", two seconds later, musette being waved gets caught in the handlebars!
I think Jan was coming back to Lance's first attack on Luz Ardiden, and without the adreneline of the crash, Lance would not have dropped Jan, as Jan was winning the psychological battle, Jan would have kept the margin tight enough, to take the Jersey in the timecyrial and into Paris. Watch the video again, Jan was coming back, and actually got back with Mayo.
Without wanting to indulge in wild fantasies, in the same sense of mentioning the red painted "Anger is a gift" slogan on the cabin on the climb, I've wondered imaginatively, that the supreme power wanted your story told, to prove that man made over indulgence of power money and fame, is often a poisened challice. You needed the crash to win that tour, you were on the ropes and goin down.
Jan was pure class, and that year deserved to win the tour I think. He had his weight down that year and that made all the difference.
I'm really surprised, that you Lance, never used the example of the conditions of the Tour in the early 1900's, when tour stages were 350 kms long, the alpes and pyrenean roads made of stoney gravel, the bikes made from steel and Iron, when the riders of the tour drank alcohol to numb the pain of what was simply an inhumane almost sadistic experiment, that's when drug taking started.
I think your comments on Sastre were very unfair. Sastre was a very consistent talented climber, who basically saw an opportunity to ambush his own teams position. Sastre realised years before his win, if you wait in the grass until the last moment, having not lost any major time, it was possible to win the tour. Sastre was around a long time, very consistent, had a lot of class on the bike, and very tactical. Sastre deserved that win.
Yes!, in 2003 , the OLN (Outdoir Life Network,, today NBCSN) feed was already live; trust me, I would calculate times and distances and would wake up accordingly because some of the long mountain stages would have a 6-ish start here in the states, and there was no need for me to be up to watch the 'breakaways. A lot of times, that earlier part of the race wouldn't be shown live, and they would just do a one minute recap and then go live. I would just remain in bed until Phil & Paul got excited and upped their volume. It was funny cuz Phil would say things sometimes and it was like "huh". But then you'll watch the re broadcast and he would be right. Someone did have a flag that on the camera angle looked like it was in front of Lance's bike shortly before he got tangled in the mussette.
A funny thing watching this stage today, Sylvain Chavanel was leading; my first and only tour live was in 2018, and the peloton allowed the Frenchman in his last year to lead them into Paris; and he was my first live view of this thing Ive been watching for years.
A funnier thing about the show today; Lance pointing out that he couldn't find Nantes on a map. That's where the last the TT took place, and I remember watching it live, in pins and needles sitting in my room. A room I would share 14 years later with my girlfriend from Nantes.
@@tmelendezmia The commentary from Phil and the late great Paul Sherwen was normally live. I was watching that stage live in Connemara Ireland. All of the clips I've watched seem to have the same commentary.
Chavenel was a great rider, who wore yellow three times I think, but a rider who finished 2nd in Flanders and lost the win by inches. Lance's pat on the back was a really nice gesture.
I'm convinced m, without the adreneline of the crash, the shoe coming undone from the pedal with just a 15 second margin, Armstrong would have lost yellow in the time trial. Jan came back to Lance after his first attack, normally, one attack from Lance and Jan was out the back door, not on this day. I think Lance would have cracked mentally, he was cracking, it took ages for him to come back to Jan on the first climb that day.
Something that charged the air that day, wanted Lance to hang on. Its such a shame those tours are so tainted. All these riders were the creme de lá creme of their generation with or without drugs, I sometimes think, in a clean sport, 80% of the riders would have had similar results.
I think Lance should do something more for the sport, to help it. Put his cards on the table, start a team with a clean charter, with a transparent commitment to clean racing. It would be nice, a nice to see Lance leading the charge to clean up cycling, working with the UCI. There's invaluable experience there. A clean cycling would be amazing. It's half way there already I think.
I'm just realizing after all these years that in those mountain climbs where you attacked and broke free off everyone, it was not that Jan U was left chasing you, but the rest of the MFs wouldn't work with him!
Thank You! FUCKIN’ BALLS 2 the WALL. Guns 💪, blazin’, cats n dogs livin together. BAM 💥 7 Victories. NO ONE else comes close. The other teams ARE BORING.
I think you should have an episode where the JBs are doing most of the commentary while LA and GH are racing on a any virtual platform. Then occasionally JB can ask LA a question while he is suffering and LA can respond, "NO! Ask George a question! I need to beat this jerk and you are suppose to help me and ask George a bunch of questions!!!"
I enjoyed the coffee guy.
Whats with Jan? Difficult to get in touch with him? He should know that many people would be very happy to see/hear him, there is still a big crowd which venerates him so so much! Would be awesome to see him talking with you guys about the good old times. By the way: good show!
Wow! Did not know that you felt that way about your chances in the 2003 tour Lance! 😮
Well, either Inspiration or desperation- whatever moves you!💪❤️🔥🚴
I thought the 2004 Tour de France was your most dominant performance… As I recall you won a number of stages!
To me, the most epic 2004 stage was stage 17 when you beat Kloden (future team mate) at the line!
That final 100 meter surge of yours was off the charts man!
Even commentator Phil, stated live that when Kloden left the group of five in the final kilometer that he was going to win that stage!
Can you please discuss this? I’d love to hear your thoughts!✌️
does S. Carolina have broadband?
We do here on the coast!
He lives well North of Greenville so it’s probably not the best. I assume he is doing this from his home
epic videos! did ullrich wait for lance?
GOAT
Didn’t Jan ride a new bicycle too in that time trial?
I have a question @WEDŪ @Lance. Lance, would you have won any of your tour wins WITHOUT Johan Bruyneel (directeur sportif of UCI ProTour team RadioShack-Nissan, and U.S. Postal Service)?
Keep it up guys!
this dude looks exactly like lance armstrong
As a fan of anyone but Armstrong this stage completely broke my belief that anyone could beat prime Armstrong at the Tour.
47:00 Everybody who watched thought exactly that.
Should have won 8
TYLER HAMILTON!!!!
Next show ...a 3hr group Zwift ride on Zoom with Jan. Take the plunge Wedu Lance.
HBQC.
Lance clearly never been punched in the face by Iron Mike Tyson, that crash was bad but come on son.
Absolutely no mention of Tyler Hamilton cooling the pace down at the front after Armstrong crashed! I guess I shouldn't be surprised in light of the bad blood between the two (and Armstrong's habit of holding a grudge forever), but it was a big thing at the time, and even more obvious in other footage I've seen, such as around the 1minute 20sec. mark here ruclips.net/video/GEqQW1-casM/видео.html
It wasn't Tyler, it was the ghost of his dead twin
Jan did not fully wait!!! He kept the pressure on but didn't go full gas, but kept the tempo high enough to make it hard for Lance. Towards the end of Lance coming back to the group, he eased of then, particularly after Tyler out his hand out.
Sir, fucking EPIC! :D
I get a feeling Haras doesn’t exist in George’s universe.
I remember jumping off my couch mother f-ing that kid!!!! Thinking LA broke a collarbone & his tour was over. LA “dropping the hammer” after the crash was EPIC!!! 🍻🇺🇸
So donations for the lumberjacks internet? 🤣
Almost took Mayo out twice
I like the inside info guys! And I know you guys dont like Rudy Pevenage, but to blame him for the fall is not fair. He tried to do a recon in the morning, but Ullrich didn't want to do it. This Dutch Ullrich documentary ruclips.net/video/sNo0UUtW6mU/видео.html sheds a different light on the circumstances. I think Johan sthould definately watch it (It contradicts things in this podcast). The truth will somewhere in the middle. And Rudy gives credits for the professionalism of the blue train!
I was there following the tour this year on our bikes riding the same route...Was fortunate to me Jan...He was chiseled like a statue, and probably the very best condition he ever brought to the Tour.
It has been fun. But not as fun as a daily Tour podcast.
Jan stopping by???
No no.
In terms of the “no helmets on the final climb” discussion. Nibali’s crash on Alpe d’Huez in 2018 and Porte’s crash behind a motorbike in 2016 on Mont Ventoux are prime examples of why helmets are necessary on the final climb.
Euskatel Euskadi
Move over indeed Johan or as I like to say ... stay out of the clag! 😃
Sastre had six or seven top 10 finishes at the Tour, making the podium twice and also finishing 4th.
Sastre finished on the podium of the Vuelta three times, and also finished 2nd in the Giro. So your comment on Sastre is off side, disrespectful. Just because he's a climber? Pantani, Andy Schleck, Bernal, Simon Yates, the list goes on, just climbers.
You lance finish the stage with the broken bike , and almost second crash was because the frame was crack on the chainstay .
Another 20 minute power dot commercial to start??? 🤦🏻♂️
Sastre had 15 top 10 finishes in grand tours. Come on Lance, that's bullshit dude, Sastre deserves more respect than that. See, that's where there's a gap with you as a cycling fan, or someone who respects the traditions and history of the sport, you focused everything on the tour, and paid little homage as a rider to the rest of the calender. 15 top 10 finishes in grand tours is nit a flash in the pan, or his 08 Tour win, a "miraculous win". Sastre is also known as Mr Clean, erm, I wonder...
i think lance places sastre, oscar and wiggins in the same boat. weak competition. though i should add that many years there would be a crash taking down some of the favourites before the last week.
@@carlosgaspar8447 Lance probably views Sastre as an undeserving winner because he never came anywhere near Lance during Lance's 7 wins, but it can take a Tour winner years to mature physically, psychologically and tactically. Cadel Evans is a prime example of that, similar to Sastre, Cadel very gradually climbed the top 10 over the years.
I think favourites are normally caught by crashes in the first week to eight days, where the peleton is most nervous. On reflection, Lance only been caught by one minor crash on Luz Ardiden is remarkable.
When you check Sastre's results on wiki in the grand Tour panel, you see the progression and consistency at grand tours, and it's obvious.
@@carlosgaspar8447 I still find it very hard to gauge what difference exactly Ferrari's doping programme made in transforming Lance into a 7 tines tour winner. We know the top ten over the 7 years were all mostly associated with doping, and Lance pioneered the high cadence technique which transformed modern cycling, and that cancer did seem to get rid of muscle mass around Lance's shoulders. I still have doubts as to whether Lance was a Tour winner in a clean sport. No doubt a naturally gifted athlete, but 90 per cent of riders who make the pro peleton are born with the gift of turning the pedals quickly. I wish pro cycling would just cop the fuck on and finish up with drug taking so we can know honest performances.
those glasses don't suit Lance well.
“How did he win the tour...George?” (Talking about Sastre). Well Lance, we all know how you won
A cushion????????????:):):):):):):):)
I love Hincapie but his fucken Wi-Fi sucks he looks and sounds like Max headroom with the video stutter....lol