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  • Опубликовано: 13 май 2022
  • Bjarne Riis as he is known to his fans Mr 60% Bjarne Rijs is one of the most controversial cyclists in history. He used doping epic methods to win 1996 Tour de France and been the crush of the people with a legendary performance in 1993 Tour de France in Finestre. This is the story of the super climber Bjarne Riis Early Days. Want to know what happened? We'll know more cycling tops, from road cycling news, cycling stories, British cycling, road cycling and More road cycling transfer news today on Cycling StorieS #Cycling, #Sports, #Doping
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  • @cyclingstories
    @cyclingstories  2 года назад +49

    The Legendary BJARNE RIIS!

  • @coreplay5251
    @coreplay5251 2 года назад +200

    With Riis, Denmark would win Eurovision against Ukraine

    • @Chebsen
      @Chebsen 2 года назад +2

      Lol

    • @realalbertan
      @realalbertan 2 года назад +1

      🤣

    • @markosajn5776
      @markosajn5776 2 года назад +2

      Nice try but i highly doubt that 😂

    • @renemortensen5028
      @renemortensen5028 Год назад

      Make him perform after an individual time trial. The fraun makes the difference

    • @pederslothzuricho7685
      @pederslothzuricho7685 Год назад

      Only because Armstrong is American and cannot participate for the US

  • @franz009franz
    @franz009franz Год назад +20

    Just to put his levels of doping into perspective. His record of the hautacam climb was done doing 6,88 watts per kg - armstrong ONLY did 6,4 in 2000, while jonas vingegaaard dropped pogacar and winning doing 6,32 watts - with a much more advanced bike & new recovery technology, ketones for nutrition etc. Not saying they ride clean right now, but damn, riis had more epo than blood in him

    • @lukeking1610
      @lukeking1610 Год назад +1

      I remember watching this as a kid. Riis was pushing huge gears all the way up Hautacam whilst out of the saddle. His blood was as thick as treacle. When him and Ugromov were ripping up the mountains in the mid 90s in their mid 30s and balding with foam frothing out of their mouths the UCI must have known the magic potions were being administered

    • @YlL-ji2sl
      @YlL-ji2sl Год назад

      Armstrong did 6,4 in horribly cold and rainy conditions while Riis did 6.88 in perfectly warm and sunny conditions. Maybe the gap wouldn't have been that big if the conditions would've been comparable.

    • @ainsley4204
      @ainsley4204 Год назад +3

      @@YlL-ji2sl Very varm conditions are not great for performances. while it is hard to compare conditions to one another and say which was better or worse. it is far from the best conditions when cycling in the very warm French summers. Colder air, but not too cold yields much better performance.

    • @93Beefcake
      @93Beefcake 9 месяцев назад

      @@ainsley4204 guy thinks you can run or cycle better in 30+ degrees than in 15? lmao

  • @MightyJabroni
    @MightyJabroni Год назад +48

    Riis is the perfect example, why "just let them all dope legally" would never work. Some people respond much better to it and can get away with more. Like Riis. He went from an unremarkable water carrier to a grand tour winner. He was basically on space shuttle fuel, obliterating the air beneath his feet, as he produced more watts than a nuclear plant. The blood crumbling through his veins!

    • @jout738
      @jout738 Год назад

      Yes so, if doping was legal to all of them? Would some of them dope so much, that they would be in serious health dificulties, so now I understand why doping is illegal.

    • @ganiniii
      @ganiniii Год назад +2

      Although I agree with most of what you say don't forget many of those gregarios could be so much more. They mostly end up in the end because they were carrying that's all.

    • @Teaman1974
      @Teaman1974 11 месяцев назад

      And yet his wins are still there along with Jan and sadly Marco who weren't given the support after but then Lance made a scapegoat for it all. 😢.
      I often wonder about Greg after his accident.
      The only one I'm pretty sure didn't dope was Miguel. He was unatural.
      I did notice recently that there were suddenly a lot of asthmatic riders. Froome I think was one.

    • @MightyJabroni
      @MightyJabroni 11 месяцев назад

      @@Teaman1974 Asthmatic riders, low-T body builders and diabetic weight lifters ....... funny, how chronicle diseases can turn into super powers, apparently.
      With Indurain it is tough to know, for the testing was still sketchy as hell and it was when EPO was on the rise and utterly undetectable. He also had ties to a dubious doctor. He did have an insane lung capacity, though.

    • @Teaman1974
      @Teaman1974 11 месяцев назад

      @@MightyJabroni the barrel lungs yeah. I modelled my own style of riding on him. Unfortunately I got really ill really quickly so cycling was ruled out completely for over 16 years of my life. Wonder if my koms will be taken off me because of all the transfusions I've had lol

  • @kimhansen8615
    @kimhansen8615 2 года назад +49

    In interview for Danish television at that time, Riis many times attributed his miraculous results to daily treatment as acupunture and would put up a very insulted face if asked about doping. For many years his go-to defense would be: 'I've never tested positive!' :-)

    • @pauldolphin7961
      @pauldolphin7961 Год назад +1

      Sounds familiar!!!

    • @Hammerhook12
      @Hammerhook12 Год назад +1

      He only did that 'I've never tested positive!' once, though.... because he clearly couldn't get away that response. It was doing the tour of 98 with the Festina scandal going on and everyone was suddenly under suspicion.

    • @KevinKimmich44024
      @KevinKimmich44024 Год назад

      He should have built a phone hyperbaric chamber... That was an excuse other riders employed.

    • @MightyJabroni
      @MightyJabroni Год назад +4

      "Riis many times attributed his miraculous results to daily treatment as acupunture"
      Well, at least he was honest about the needles.

  • @zohanrock
    @zohanrock Год назад +16

    hey man, he just got more aerodynamic over the years.

  • @foodchaincyclist4026
    @foodchaincyclist4026 Год назад +9

    4:15 can we chat about the rider clipped by the motor bike who then slowly dies on the asphalt while the cops rescue his bike from the road? That crash was insane!

  • @harrylook7810
    @harrylook7810 2 года назад +30

    he looked like the other riders' dad. lol.

  • @kasperkjrsgaard1447
    @kasperkjrsgaard1447 2 года назад +197

    Interesting enough, the Tour De France have never been so critical about the french riders who were just as doped.

    • @Clashjo
      @Clashjo 2 года назад +2

      @@beaneater Docteur Mabuse is the french dope success story : 5 decades. Raymond Poulidor > Cyrille Guimard > Laurent Fignon. Don't pretend they ever went under fire in France. Rijs improved when he became a friend of... Laurent Fignon ! Rijs was attacked as a team director, Gianetti is (UAE financial manager) : was Marc Madiot ever ? No way, Madiot & Guimard got promoted.

    • @arvetemecha
      @arvetemecha 2 года назад

      Well, it's well known that ASO Inc. is a very powerful mob, they dictate what can be asked and answered on french national TV during the TDF and after. Sometimes they drop a bone, and Riis was an easy target as he admitted himself. They never questioned how Jalabert (former sprinter) could suddenly outperform colombian climbers. But this is not only about the frenchies, all business partners were well treated! During the Armstrong era, french TV star Gerard Holtz never ever seemed to have a fraction of a doubt about the surreal performances of the Boss. Futhermore, former FR. president Sarkozy (himself being one of the most honnest men on Earth :-) ) told us Lance was the GOAT. But this is only about the sport fantasies, think about the level of corruption in FR political and business "elite" members and you have the whole picture.

    • @bimfred
      @bimfred Год назад +13

      and Indurain got off scott free.

    • @alexanderishere1857
      @alexanderishere1857 Год назад +11

      Very true. The narrator is childishly naiive if he doesn't think that everyone Riis, Ulrich, Pantano and so on competed with were just as doped up.

    • @dpt6849
      @dpt6849 Год назад +1

      Richard Virenque always innocent

  • @simonalexandercritchley439
    @simonalexandercritchley439 2 года назад +23

    It was all down to nutrition and Herbalife for Riis ! ....yeah right. Actually doping goes right back to the early days of the tour,and other important races. Each decade bought new drugs and ways to enhance the performance artificially. Most were doing it in the 90's,some better than others but Armstrong took it to a new level.

  • @jeanmarcleplattenier2762
    @jeanmarcleplattenier2762 Год назад +14

    I raced in the mid 70's. One of my team mates went from average to a winner on a national level. Later, I learned he connected with a belgian individual during the winter who had the necessary protocols. Sadly, PED have been and will be forever prevalent in the sport.

    • @Christian_Bagger
      @Christian_Bagger Год назад +1

      Yea… its seems to always be a race between the advancement in tech between usage of doping and tracking doping. Cycling is probably the sport in the world where you suffer the most and the body is under the most amount of stress on elite level, so I assume that’s the area where there’s most doping, but at the same time, I do think there’s far more doping than we realize also in the case of like football, but I don’t think it’s as prevalent as in cycling.
      It’s really a shame.. at one point in time, I was really getting into cycling, but it’s just obvious and become a race between “who got the best dope”, and the magic falls apart. I do really like the intensity, the composition (roles) in a team, the drama, etc. .. maybe I should get into Pro cycling manager ingested 😅

  • @jdthegreatone2757
    @jdthegreatone2757 Год назад +8

    The amount of times this man mentions Riss' baldness is hilarious...mainly because its true

  • @saymyname218
    @saymyname218 Год назад +5

    They're all on the "Juice" at that level. And that means they are all on a level playing field.......(Whoever wins, deserves to win)

  • @jakobsommer9415
    @jakobsommer9415 Год назад +7

    In 1980 F. Moser set the hourrecord on blood doping. From 1987 medicaldoping was the norm in pro cycling. I was there. Many other winners where doped inkl Indurain. The Peleton and amateurs where doped to. That's a fact.

  • @Phrankster163
    @Phrankster163 2 года назад +55

    A few things that I think should have been mentioned:
    1: Bjarne raced during a time, when 99 % of the peloton were doping because even if you got caught, the punishments were ridiculously low (usually only one month´s suspension in the worst cases and in lighter cases only a time penalty). Anyone who didn´t dope, had little to no chance of making it in the sport during the years he was active and that´s the way it had been for almost as long as pro cycling has existed. The great 5 time tour winner Jaques Anquetil never hid that he doped like crazy all through his career, was against doping tests altogether and said that it would be inhumane to force riders to ride the tour without doping, when the first tests were introduced in the late 60´s. Oh, but we´re not supposed to mention that in regards to the tour, since he´s French! Other great stars of the time before Bjarne´s career even began like another French rider and tour winner in Bernard Thevenet suffered severe health problems thanks to their abuse, but that was seen as "Just the way things were" and it sadly continued to be accepted for way too long. If you´re gonna call any riders "Dopeds", then it should be every single pro cycling rider, who raced prior to the 2010´s.
    2: He was a very highly rated domestique (by Fignon especially) for a long time, before he got the chance to ride for himself. When he started out as a pro in the mid 80´s it wasn´t like today, where you get the chance to ride for yourself in your first years (unless you truly were a phenomenon like Hinault or Merckx). You had to bite the bullet and pay your dues first, even if it meant sacrificing personal success, or you could end up blacklisted from the sport if you didn´t play by the rules (try looking up a name like Mogens Frey and you´ll see what I mean). Bjarne would no doubt have won a lot more races in his early years if he was riding today, where the mentality has changed, but back then he would be lucky if he got to ride his own chance more than one or two times per season. Therefore you can´t say that his results from before he became a captain are in any way indicative of how he could have finished, had he ridden for himself.
    Otherwise a good video! I´ll never forget that summer of 96, where Indurain´s reign of boredom came to an end. As a young teen back then I loved the tour, but during those five years of Banesto domination, the race would usually have been decided mid way through after the first long time trial and then the rest could fight for second while Miguel comfortably rode home surrounded by his team mates and never attacked. The few times he did, people were almost shocked to see it happen! To see someone who did attack get the rewards for it and finally break that deadlock felt like cycling had been freed again! Bjarne is a true legend, even if it´s hard to respect for how long and how many times he directly lied about his doping involvement both during and after his career ended, but to me he was only playing on an even playing field with everyone else he was competing against at that time.

    • @michaelsteven1090
      @michaelsteven1090 2 года назад +11

      agree completely..All those guys sprinting with Riis at the finishes were doped..and once again, if you didn't dope , you didn't win..

    • @cyclingstories
      @cyclingstories  2 года назад +1

      Indurain attacked only in his 5 tdf in 1995 tdf in Liege and La Plagne. Maybe if this not happened, Riis could win that Tour.

    • @joowsty
      @joowsty 2 года назад +6

      @@michaelsteven1090 ironicly one of the few that didnt dope (yet) was lance armstrong. but he noticed how ppl he used to beat or at least could keep up with were now passing him left and right. like indurain passed him in a time trial somewhere with like 5 km/h faster speeds. so he knew in order to win he also had to start using EPO and we all know how that turned out later on.

    • @Phrankster163
      @Phrankster163 2 года назад +1

      @@cyclingstories If he hadn´t been on such an extremely dysfunctional team, it would have helped too! Indurain had the advantage of having a team completely dedicated to him alone, while Gewiss was full of (sometimes bordering on crazy) internal power struggles, that Bjarne constantly had to fight against.
      It´s crazy to think about now, but it was supposed to be Berzin, the team´s golden boy, who was originally the captain in that tour and it wasn´t until the tour was over halfway over, that Bjarne was named as the guy, they were riding for. Even after that, the "help" he got from the team was questionable at times. With a peak power Team Telekom like he had the year after riding for him alone, I don´t think Indurain or Zulle could have beaten him, but we´ll never know, will we?
      It´s no wonder that he couldn´t get away from that team fast enough, when Telekom came luring with all of those nice Deutsch Marks on top of it!

    • @michaelsteven1090
      @michaelsteven1090 2 года назад +1

      @@joowsty yea, and Lance was HEAVY back then..He knew at that point he had to lose weight..When he won Worlds in '93 he was clean..There was very little EPO then..FYI..Ullrich was an amateur then and won gold..I'm sure he was clean too..All these guys are genetic freaks, dope or not..

  • @ratadebiblio
    @ratadebiblio 2 года назад +17

    And this is only the first time of the story. The evo of this guy in 1995 was insane, also he met Ferrari in Gewiss 1994. A legend of doping.

    • @MightyJabroni
      @MightyJabroni Год назад +1

      He is Frankenstein's monster of cycling. A true medicine man.

  • @Matstarx25
    @Matstarx25 Год назад +15

    Think it's wrong to single out Riis as the "doper" per exellence. Everyone was doped, Indurain, Virenque, Bersin, all of them.
    Riis won the Tour on a level playing field with the other dopers, he worked hard and that still deserves respect.

    • @phililpb
      @phililpb 8 месяцев назад +2

      doped sport is not a level playing field. Its a sham defrauding the fans

  • @shinyhappyshibas1385
    @shinyhappyshibas1385 Год назад +7

    No one should ever lose their tour titles for doping. It was a level playing field.

    • @woofersagainstviolence5349
      @woofersagainstviolence5349 Год назад

      WTF? Little wonder yur shiny an happy with that Dodgy set of morals and logic 🤔

    • @3vimages471
      @3vimages471 Год назад +2

      No it wasn't a level playing field .... they maybe were all juiced but it's like a local garage tuning your car against a Formula One team working on it for years. Lance was turbo charged by Ferrari .... no one could compete.

    • @phililpb
      @phililpb 8 месяцев назад

      it is ot a level playing field it is a scam selling the fans a lie

  • @francisigooch5269
    @francisigooch5269 Год назад +75

    I find it amazing that they single one person out Riis and Armstrong. I fully agree that they should be heavily sanctioned BUT in that era just about everybody was on some type of performance drug/regimen so they should all have been sanctioned not just the high profile individuals. The authorities should have deleted the races in total and not just taken Riis and Lances wins away. Even if you came last you should receive the same punishment as the winner. They is Justice.

    • @basquat76
      @basquat76 Год назад +10

      But the guy who came in last probably didn't cheat. He's the guy these guy cheated. Took his wins and money and glory. Riis and Armstrong stand out cause they went from mediocre to greatest of all times. Like unbeatable monsters. No one else had that big of an improvement

    • @renemortensen5028
      @renemortensen5028 Год назад +6

      @@basquat76 There where Riis who won once... NO one talks about Indurain. That is sickening

    • @basquat76
      @basquat76 Год назад +3

      @@renemortensen5028 I think you misunderstood everything i said

    • @renemortensen5028
      @renemortensen5028 Год назад

      @@basquat76 i think you took my comment personal. It was'nt I was riding along

    • @basquat76
      @basquat76 Год назад +2

      @@renemortensen5028 No it just didn't make much sense to me.

  • @christiani.nielsen8128
    @christiani.nielsen8128 Год назад +12

    Yes yes, and Indurain was doped before him... He got off when Riss won
    At the time, EVERYONE WAS ON SOMETHING!
    END OF STORY

    • @WONGLER
      @WONGLER Год назад

      Where and when was Indurain tested positive ? Never known or read about it but of course might be possible like Delgado in 88

    • @christiani.nielsen8128
      @christiani.nielsen8128 Год назад +3

      @@WONGLER
      He was just lucky and Riis wasn't tested posetive either, he said it himself

  • @jasonstevenson110
    @jasonstevenson110 Год назад +2

    Poor Denmark. Infamous for Riis and Chicken. But now they have a TdF winner who is nothing but a creation of science. A 58Kg nobody before 2021 who on Saturday nearly beat the rampaging WvA in a 40k rolling course TT.

  • @robbullen9436
    @robbullen9436 Год назад +7

    Indurain was an average rider for years before suddenly becoming a world beater.....he seems to have avoided any scrutiny. Wonder why?

    • @Thicc_Cheese_Dip
      @Thicc_Cheese_Dip Год назад +1

      Here's the cynical answer that fits the mood of these comments: it's because Indurain never made a single enemy in the peloton or the press. He was nice to everyone and the press at worst found him quiet and boring. If you start to accuse the guy with no enemies, people would turn on you instantly.

    • @oliviernoir6669
      @oliviernoir6669 Месяц назад

      @@Thicc_Cheese_Dip Yes, this is what Lance A. did not understand, he fell because of his bully attitude

  • @Kaffedreng38
    @Kaffedreng38 Год назад +8

    In what time everybody was using doping - Bjarne Riis was the best

  • @Ulrich.Bierwisch
    @Ulrich.Bierwisch 2 года назад +70

    I followed those events back then. When he moved to Team Telekom, he obviously brought the whole knowledge about how to dope better than the others with him. He made the Team of mostly average German riders into 9 people who dominated the Tour with two competing riders over all plus at the same time a sprinter that dominated the flat stages and 6 others who supported the three leaders on every stage.
    This worked only for a short time until the other teams learned how to do the same. A unique performance that started what is now called the dark age of cycling.

    • @cyclingstories
      @cyclingstories  2 года назад +9

      Riis was a true master. Zabel, Bolts and Aldag were good riders but not top ones. Ullrich was a young superclass but a novice. He turned that team of newbies into a monstars.
      Only Festina had better medical preparation between 1996 and 1998

    • @jasrod2012
      @jasrod2012 2 года назад +14

      Yes that was the dark age. In the light age we’ve moved on to asthma drugs.

    • @guitarrerist698
      @guitarrerist698 2 года назад +5

      That was the best era of cycling

    • @drunkensailor112
      @drunkensailor112 Год назад +4

      Except ullrich wasn't onn epo then

    • @JAKOB1977
      @JAKOB1977 Год назад

      your a clown.. he didnt doped himself... it was the norm on the team, orchestrated by the doctors.. not something the rider had any saying in..wake up..either you did it or you where not on that team.. it was the norm... but I recon your as blank as even if facts is shining you in the face.. your immune..at least you look the part so people can take that into consideration.
      it was the norm on deutche telecom just as it was on every other team on early 1990s

  • @renemortensen5028
    @renemortensen5028 Год назад +17

    Greg Lemonds fall in cycling was the turning point of the "doped" era of cycling. The way he went from being a leader to being able to not even follow the pack is amazing to hear. He allways claims that he never used doping. And i believe that. Simular falls have been seen before. Like Andy Scleck after Frank was caught. Everyone was doped maxed out in that Era from start 90és to at least 2010. Now? who knows. There are not really any scandals to speak off soo. well

    • @Splozy
      @Splozy Год назад +2

      Are you really questioning if modern cycling or any sport really is rife with doping?
      You need to look at testing policies of any sport. Most are all practically identical and designed to allow doping.

    • @NC-ck5oj
      @NC-ck5oj Год назад +8

      laurent fignon was the same. Epo changed everything.sure they took amphetimines since cycling began but in the early 90s, it became scientific

    • @renemortensen5028
      @renemortensen5028 Год назад +1

      @@Splozy i am not saying it dont exist. Just saying its not something we know for sure, since no one is caught.

    • @PhilAndersonOutside
      @PhilAndersonOutside Год назад +1

      I'm almost certain there are a couple things still going on:
      1. Microdosing of drugs like EPO, HGH, testosterone, or red blood cells by a few riders.
      2. An abuse of the TUE exemption (Chris Froome is a good example).
      3. More than just microdosing of some domestiques, who are rarely tested.
      4. Motors in a few bikes deeply hidden adding 20-50 watts for a few minutes. Most possibly used by climbing domestiques and lead out riders.
      Not saying all riders are doping. I also think the kind of doping listed above isn't anywhere near it was 20 years ago. Not even close. It is most likely used during training, and very minimally and very carefully to give a select few riders a bit of an advantage. Who? I won't guess. I'd like to think there are a lot of riders racing today, name riders, who are clean. Maybe I'm naive. But I don't think they all are, no.

    • @MightyJabroni
      @MightyJabroni Год назад +1

      The times have not come down in a meaningful way. The just got better at getting away with it.

  • @freqeist
    @freqeist 2 года назад +4

    1996 was my favourite year.

  • @jasonstevenson110
    @jasonstevenson110 Год назад +2

    The video focuses on Riis transformation at the 1993 TdF. But what showed up at the 1996 Tour was something else.

  • @andersnielsen9347
    @andersnielsen9347 Год назад +4

    Is it fair to point out a single rider in a generation where everyone was doped. In that generation all the danish riders admitted they used doping. Rolf Sørensen, Bo Hamburger, Jesper Skibby, Brian Holm. Bjarne was an exceptional rider and he deserves alot more credit. He should not be so much less credited than Lemond, Fignon, Indurain or any other winner of the Tour De France whom with certainty also used doping.

  • @ComputerBladet
    @ComputerBladet Год назад +2

    Notice that not a single one of his competitors said anything before and after. They were just as doped as he was.

  • @HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed
    @HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed 2 года назад +27

    4:12 the guy chasing puts his head down and gets taken out by the motorcycle.

    • @michaelsteven1090
      @michaelsteven1090 2 года назад +2

      whoa! didn't see that!..I'm sure the leather helmet saved him..lol

    • @HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed
      @HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed 2 года назад +2

      @@michaelsteven1090 Yea that was some spill he took 😬

    • @oldfrend
      @oldfrend Год назад +1

      nah he ran into the back of the moto who was slowing to turn off course. 100% the cyclist's fault. end of the stage no one's around him, no point drafting anymore.

    • @HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed
      @HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed Год назад

      @@oldfrend You are obviously not a cyclist. When one puts his head down they are in fault. He wasn't thinking the bike was going to turn .

    • @oldfrend
      @oldfrend Год назад

      @@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed your english is terrible. i have no idea what you're saying.

  • @michaelnielsen7050
    @michaelnielsen7050 Год назад +3

    They where all doped, all of em. Even today they are doped. All of them are so close to the "legal" limit. All of those limits are unnatural. And i would bet my right arm there are something the anti doping thing cant find. Look at them on todays stage, the 17th in the tour de France. Pogacars team was dead yesterday, and today they catapults him over the mountains. Not to mention Van Aart's monster tour, he has been in the zone on all stages, what the hell is that?
    But i have to say, i find it more interesting this year than the last 10 years.

  • @robk5745
    @robk5745 Год назад +1

    Can’t be the best cyclist in the word without some good dope! Keep the dope train rolling lol

  • @veterinarius7646
    @veterinarius7646 2 года назад +1

    On 4:20 the cops are like - lets remove this dead body out of the way

  • @spiralmoment
    @spiralmoment Год назад +4

    I seriously doubt if any tour has been won without doping. Watching the tour these days it just baffles me how unaffected they look climbing after 150km.

    • @Reb3nga
      @Reb3nga Год назад

      They all look affected this Tour. Seen Bardet after the Granon, Jakobsen and also Pogacar?

  • @ianmangham4570
    @ianmangham4570 Год назад +2

    Hilarious 😂 💉 great vid 💪🙏

  • @JakobSanvig
    @JakobSanvig Год назад +1

    I firmly believe that Team Sky was the last "Telekom".
    In my naive mind cycling is now clean (almost)

  • @jeanmarcleplattenier2762
    @jeanmarcleplattenier2762 Год назад +2

    It is happening as we speak. History always, always repeats itself.

    • @jacobpedersen8987
      @jacobpedersen8987 Год назад +2

      well maybe even back then most of the riders wasnt cought on the test but admitted it them selfs years later like Riis. So it is deffinatly possible that it is to hard to track down

  • @poulbgebjerg7810
    @poulbgebjerg7810 2 года назад +23

    But still, he managed to lose to Miguel Indurain in `93, `94 and `95.
    Why ?? Maybe he was not the only one cheating

    • @cyclingstories
      @cyclingstories  2 года назад +6

      Of course but not only Indurain.
      Rominger, Jaskula and Mejia in 93
      Zulle in 95
      In 94 he was in the best prepared team with Ferrari but Ugrumov had the priority in the team. Berzin Boys were first in the doping pyramid.

    • @akl192
      @akl192 2 года назад +1

      @@cyclingstories The crazy thing about Mejia is his co-captain Andy Hampsten who's part of the small clean talented like Mottet, vouch for a clean Motorola team in TDF 93, so it's possible Mejia was a huge talent who got close to the podium with no oxygen vector doping at the height of the EPO era in TDF 93 😲
      Great content regardless !! honestly who knows for sure if there's a 100% clean champion. Robert Millar recently admitted to using EPO in the 90s, guess he was too old and not a strong responder to benefit well, and stated that all top 80s top guys like Roche, Hinault and even Lemond are doping hard. Would you agree? Lemond got a clean reputation from peloton but his miraculous recovery in TDF 89 and the 4th fastest TT on the last day of the tour, on older bike do raises questions. We know autologous blood transfusion doping was already done in the 80s, from Moser to PDM team like Theunisse and Rooks in TDF 88...

    • @abtimus
      @abtimus Год назад +2

      pretty sure if the young ullrich would have been allowed to attack in 96, he would have lost to him as well…Ullrich was his deluxe helper in 1996 and seemed like he always had more gas in the tank at the end of every stage like all the others! when you mix great talent with pro doping it really gets terrifying at what the human body can do as seen later on with armstrong especially

  • @supernovaleftover1812
    @supernovaleftover1812 2 года назад +5

    What the hell happened to the rider in the background at 4:12?
    It looks like an official takes him out with a clothesline

    • @OmmerSyssel
      @OmmerSyssel Год назад

      Well spotted.. Certainly one hell of a crash, and fall.
      Looks weird, no one needs any supply's or service in that part of the game.

  • @kruls1101
    @kruls1101 Год назад +1

    Watching these even though the bias is awesome

  • @LarsRyeJeppesen
    @LarsRyeJeppesen Год назад +3

    Mr. 60 pct

  • @scroogemcduck1462
    @scroogemcduck1462 Год назад +6

    Video is well made and interesting to watch, but the whole premise kind of falls flat when you consider that every single rider you're naming also were as doped as they could get away with.

  • @japphan
    @japphan Год назад +29

    He went from a clean-ish average pro rider, to a monster once he got the "best" doping regimen.
    And he was willing to risk blood clots galore for glory.
    It is hard to say whether he was more doped up than his competitors. Either way, the difference in performance you illustrated gives a good view on how much PED improves an athlete.

    • @davidconsumerofmath
      @davidconsumerofmath Год назад +4

      yeah some athletes get a modest (relatively speaking) improvement, while others get a MASSIVE response to doping
      Bjarne Rijs was definitely one of those "super responders" to drugs

    • @theriddler2277
      @theriddler2277 Год назад +6

      and yet the TDF is faster each year.... they are still just as doped as they always where

    • @oo0024
      @oo0024 Год назад +6

      @@theriddler2277 bike gearing gets better every several years so even without drugs the peloton will always be faster then the 80s/90s

    • @chlila
      @chlila Год назад +2

      everbody in top 10 was doped in the 90s

    • @oldfrend
      @oldfrend Год назад +5

      @@theriddler2277 technology is way better than it was back then, as is conditioning. bikes weigh half as much and much more aero; a big dude like riis would never be a great climber today against dudes like nairo who are just skin and bones in the upper body and all lean muscles in the legs. riis didn't even use an aero helmet!

  • @Michael00000001
    @Michael00000001 2 года назад +25

    Thanks for your great story. Just an idea: Do you remember the Austrian Peter Luttenberger? He came from nowhere and then all of a sudden he won the Tour de Suisse big style and Top 5 Tour de France, got a million $ contract and then disappeared. He still races for years and never got caught for doping. Maybe you can find out more details. Did he stop doping because all he wanted to have is a good living? Or did he have a near-to-death experience?

    • @Killroy76
      @Killroy76 2 года назад

      Bernard Eisel?

    • @Michael00000001
      @Michael00000001 2 года назад

      @@Killroy76 no, as said talking about Peter Luttenberger.

    • @simonworsley8631
      @simonworsley8631 2 года назад +4

      Luttenberger and also Zenon Jaskula is another similar one. Had one great year on well funded Italian teams and then transferred to a lower budget team and were never the same riders. Funny that !

    • @guitarrerist698
      @guitarrerist698 2 года назад +2

      @@Killroy76 do you know how to read?

  • @mugin11223344
    @mugin11223344 Год назад +1

    The people who have chosen the route for Tour De France, is also not without fault for the amount of doping that is and has been. They have made the Tour De France harder and harder, to a point where it is almost impossible to accomplish.

  • @mv11000
    @mv11000 2 года назад +5

    Wouldn‘t be too sure that this could never happen again…

    • @karl8805
      @karl8805 2 года назад +3

      Pogacar... 100%

    • @WONGLER
      @WONGLER Год назад

      @@karl8805 Beweise ?

  • @widz1776
    @widz1776 2 года назад +2

    I was born in comunistic country. We had got Riise too. He's name was Olaf Ludwig, he was from DDR.

    • @mmartijn78
      @mmartijn78 2 года назад

      All sport from DDR were doped. Big muscles girls lol

    • @vilhelmjensen7957
      @vilhelmjensen7957 Год назад

      I was born in a once democratic country, we had Bjarne Riis, it was nice and okay, we were free but naïve people back then. Today we are communistic and deprived from any fun. We will pretend to enjoy the Tour from 1-3 of July in Denmark, but its all smoke and mirrors...

  • @markokitzing4291
    @markokitzing4291 2 года назад

    "I take this as a Yes" :D :D :D

  • @duringthemeanwhilst
    @duringthemeanwhilst 2 года назад +3

    4:15 there's a video for you - spectator / race official / road furniture caused crashes

  • @malcolmjcullen
    @malcolmjcullen Год назад +1

    Who was the poor sap that got cut up by the motorcycle on the run to the finish at 4:13?

  • @KevinKimmich44024
    @KevinKimmich44024 Год назад +8

    I was a big fan of the sport back in those top fuel doping days... I had no idea until the lance Armstrong story started spilling out that they were all doped to the gills... Probably some of the riders had gills. I've watched some of the footage of battles between Indurain, and the other big names of the era in recent years, and in retrospect their supercharged performances seem pretty unnatural and frenetic...

  • @pele7208
    @pele7208 Год назад

    "from friendly alopecia to mr. 60..." hahahaha

  • @FB1BB1BB1
    @FB1BB1BB1 2 года назад +1

    4:12
    Wowwww

  • @mcb3843
    @mcb3843 Год назад +8

    Øjne blå som Frankrigs himmel. Stærk som få og aldrig svimmel. Jysk af sind. Men verdensmand. Ingen er så go' som han!!

  • @jds6206
    @jds6206 2 года назад +5

    Do an expose' on Miguel Indurain.....tell "Big Mig's" doping story.

  • @permagnestenseng5923
    @permagnestenseng5923 2 года назад +3

    Many of these dopers/cheaters are Managers in the sport today and heros in their countries. Flush them out!!

    • @OmmerSyssel
      @OmmerSyssel Год назад +1

      Why? Everyone and his cat was doped those days. Notice the career jump other mediocre riders took..
      Why aren't French riders taken out in the same manner...

  • @TwoWheelWarrior
    @TwoWheelWarrior 2 года назад +2

    Way to go buddy!

  • @barneygoogle4003
    @barneygoogle4003 Год назад +1

    From what I've heard, all the top bikers are doped up with something.

  • @BanjoLuke1
    @BanjoLuke1 2 года назад +9

    An interesting piece. Riise and Ullrich were somehow from the same stable, although one was Iron Curtain and the other in liberal, fun-loving Denmark.
    To this day there are strange and questionable dips and surges on form. And lost laptops and jiffy bags.... The knighted boss of Sky and his knighted team leader and the Kenyan who followed have much to explain but never will. Many of Sky's top results look quite rum.
    I love the sport but it tries its best to make me dislike it.
    Even my favourites over the years were clearly juiced. But I like the sport.

    • @guitarrerist698
      @guitarrerist698 2 года назад

      I dont know if you know but Froome has been out of "Sky" for quite a long time now and its "Ineos Grenadiers" now.

    • @BanjoLuke1
      @BanjoLuke1 2 года назад

      @@guitarrerist698 I had heard.... One picks up these snippets from he news media and so on.
      The bar was set by Sky and many people still see the same structure behind the riders. There are eras identified in part by the name of the team seen as the principal malefactor. Banesto... USPS.... Discovery and so on. On the eyes of many, Sky/Skyneos/Ineos was/is one such team. The stain was left by Sky. Other names will follow.

    • @marianorivera3272
      @marianorivera3272 Год назад

      @@guitarrerist698 post froome SKY is irrelevant.

  • @ToTheNines87368
    @ToTheNines87368 Год назад

    very nicely done, but has a strangely cut ending.

  • @Tazangamoz
    @Tazangamoz 2 года назад +1

    💯

  • @fernandotosettomonchero
    @fernandotosettomonchero 2 года назад +1

    A verdade é que todos se dopam. Infelizmente. Os atletas dizem que não, as equipes se isentam, mas a gente sabe que o doping está enraizado. É fato!

  • @multidimensional_holographer
    @multidimensional_holographer Год назад +1

    these Tour de Pharmacy legends will suffer the long term health consequences of their doping adventure

  • @JacobafJelling
    @JacobafJelling Год назад +1

    Where have you gone mate

  • @SheaDesign
    @SheaDesign Год назад +1

    Funny that you kept pointing out his baldness.

  • @Joopsmann
    @Joopsmann 2 года назад +10

    I wonder how he prevented a heart attack or stroke. His blood must have been like thick sludge. They called him 'Mr. Sixty Percent," referring to his blood hematocrit. He must have been taking an anticoagulant or blood thinner.

    • @kasperjepsen2917
      @kasperjepsen2917 2 года назад +1

      A Danish rider from the same era called Jesper Skibby claims he never heard anyone in the peloton call Bjarne Riis Mr 60%

    • @Joopsmann
      @Joopsmann 2 года назад

      @@kasperjepsen2917 I recall the name Jesper Skibby. I wonder where the "Mr. 60%" moniker comes from. At any rate, Riis had to have been doped to get the results that he did.

    • @kasperjepsen2917
      @kasperjepsen2917 2 года назад +1

      I’m not denying that he doped. They all did back then. I don’t know how it is these days, but back then i’m pretty sure every Tour de France rider doped. The whole “mister 60%” sounds kind of like something other riders might have been saying, trying to justify themselves to me.
      Like: “He must have doped so much more than me, that’s the only way he could win.”

    • @guitarrerist698
      @guitarrerist698 2 года назад

      Anti-coagulant most likely. My dad used to take that. He has CKD

    • @LarsRyeJeppesen
      @LarsRyeJeppesen Год назад +1

      @@Joopsmann Riis was once hospitalized where they measured the infamous 60pct. They weren't on blood thinners but had timers going off every 2 hours to getnup and get the blood flowing.

  • @guycalabrese4040
    @guycalabrese4040 2 года назад +7

    All cyclists was taking something back in the day... You think Indurain was clean? 🤔🤧😜🤣

    • @cyclingstories
      @cyclingstories  2 года назад +1

      So clean with Padilla and Conconi.
      With 5 or 6 dead teammates

    • @guycalabrese4040
      @guycalabrese4040 2 года назад

      @@cyclingstories University of Ferrara was at the time world leading in "sports medicine"... 😜

    • @OmmerSyssel
      @OmmerSyssel Год назад +1

      @@cyclingstories then why didn't you take a hit on the sport generally, instead of picking one single rider?
      He's achievements was admirable anyway.. 🚵🏻🚵🏻

  • @johndododoe1411
    @johndododoe1411 Год назад

    Video stopped suddenly ...

  • @Stigsens1
    @Stigsens1 Год назад +3

    99 out of 100 used doping then!

  • @marcinos303
    @marcinos303 2 года назад

    Lech Piasecki - it was just a cyclist. He didn't need any dope to beat everyone in his time. Also the fact that he was a Pole from behind the "iron curtain" did not prevent him from competing with the best.
    In 1988, he won the team time trial stages and individually at the Giro d'Italia, and won gold in the 5,000m race to pursue the pros at the Ghent track world championship, defeating Briton Anthony Doyle in the final. In 1989 Piasecki won the time trials in Tirreno Adriatico and Giro d'Italia, the aces criterion in Bologna and the Giro di Friuli race. In 1990 he won the Giro d'Italia time trial and the Firenze-Pistoia race.

    • @OmmerSyssel
      @OmmerSyssel Год назад +3

      Considering how obsessed the glorious countries behind the Iron Curtain was with proving their superiority, it is highly unlikely they were clean. Lately it has been proven that GDR teams were regularly doped.

    • @hansemannluchter643
      @hansemannluchter643 Год назад

      Are you kidding?
      ALL the former communist countries had State-doping.
      Some of the East-German women where practically turned in to men with hormones.

  • @JK-zx3go
    @JK-zx3go 2 года назад

    Id like to see a scan of that mans heart.

  • @WONGLER
    @WONGLER Год назад +1

    What about Tadej Pogacar currently , is he really " clean " ? Tough to believe......

    • @alanrobinson7891
      @alanrobinson7891 Год назад

      Until he actually fails a test or admits to doping then he must be given the benefit of the doubt

  • @morten123456789
    @morten123456789 Год назад

    having watched cycling since back then, I have no doubts all the big people where doping. Not a second in doubt that it was widespread.
    Only thing I will say is I dont understand why his victory wasnt taken away. But so be it I suppose.

  • @Newtube_Channel
    @Newtube_Channel Год назад

    A menacing creep.
    Working with a doctor isn't always a bad thing. It can help you understand your body better and if you can grapple that then you can make genuine strides in sport.
    Now whether there is or can be doping involved is another question entirely. I would say that the level of doping involved is usually absolutely miniscule but it gives you an edge onto which you can build a fortress. In the popular imagination the picture painted by the likes of Florence Hamstrung or the media rather, about doping in the sport is quite misleading. It goes to further show that those intimately involved don't really know what they're talking about.

  • @kevinbarkema1666
    @kevinbarkema1666 10 месяцев назад

    I think they should test and test some more. Keep historic samples for when testing tech gets better. But...If you don't catch them with a positive test during the tour don't strip their titles. Always keep advancing test but end the witch hunt after the race is over. Does no good, hurts the sport, when you selectively go back and strip titles.

  • @karl8805
    @karl8805 2 года назад +1

    Riis..mr 60%

  • @outdoorvertical
    @outdoorvertical 8 месяцев назад

    This channel has a big problem with Riis... id like like to see a video on the incredible performances of Luigi!

  • @skylineXpert
    @skylineXpert Год назад

    everyone In that decade was on something.

  • @shane-irish
    @shane-irish Год назад

    Scary photos

  • @eudardopadilla7093
    @eudardopadilla7093 2 года назад +6

    Now imagine how way way much doped were the contenders ahead of him!!! Ever since I began racing USCF license catecories in CA., there would be not a single strong contender on any race who did not cheat!!! Period! Lance only took the blame for all ages of cycling!

    • @cyclingstories
      @cyclingstories  2 года назад +3

      There is another thing called talent too.
      For example, Bugno was much better cyclist than Riis.

    • @kasperkjrsgaard1447
      @kasperkjrsgaard1447 2 года назад +6

      @Cycling Stories ..... and propably just as doped as Bjarne.

    • @Clashjo
      @Clashjo 2 года назад

      LA was attacked by US missiles because he decided to play it the american dream way (financial speculation, foundation cover, political games). He played a tenth of millions derivative speculation on Tour de France success.
      Fact is he was never threatened in France, beit for doping investigation only.
      It is obvious he could have escaped the US missiles, if only he had continued with Cyrille's Cofidis. He had the very best protection there. His $$$$$$$$$$$$$ objective was just sooo much higher

  • @NicoDsSBCs
    @NicoDsSBCs 2 года назад +2

    We al knew what we were watching. Then it was known they took epo, but accepted. But it had to change. Not sure if the riders today are clean. I excpect they dope at young age to have more evolved body when mature. Seems like it, growhormones and so.

  • @alcebiadesliz
    @alcebiadesliz Год назад

    Armstrong's hematocrit was about 49%. whoever says he is the most doped cyclist in history is completely wrong. Mister 60 is definitely one of the most doped cyclists in history

  • @erlinglaustsenebbesen3544
    @erlinglaustsenebbesen3544 Год назад +1

    The editor made a lot of workshop with the photo- editing of Riis.
    So the editor is cheating ad Well!!!! How ironic 😏

  • @pichihimunoz2891
    @pichihimunoz2891 2 года назад

    This guy was crazy for being someone in cycling. First he lick the round and hairy as of Fignon and later push his blood into the limit

  • @Joormode
    @Joormode Год назад

    4:13 - wtf is that guy in the orange shirt doing !? crazy crash , poor guy .

  • @manjasorensen5472
    @manjasorensen5472 2 года назад +15

    He was the best in a year, where they all were doped, and he was wery well known in Denmark, long before the tour in 1996, just to correct you.

    • @cyclingstories
      @cyclingstories  2 года назад +1

      We talked about 1993 not 1996

    • @Hammerhook12
      @Hammerhook12 Год назад +4

      ​@@cyclingstories Yes he was well known in Denmark back then. He and Rolf Sørensen were the face of Danish cycling even going back to the late 80's known as the two most talented Danish riders at the time and as rivals..

  • @kidAG
    @kidAG 2 года назад +2

    Obviously, this was shameful. But perhaps less so, if everyone at the top did it. Are there any top cyclists from that era that are thought to have been clean?

  • @ninthie
    @ninthie Год назад +1

    He won the tour de france, fool.... And at that time everyone was doped. And they proberly still are :)

  • @facediaper09
    @facediaper09 2 года назад

    Hot Sauce Vibes

  • @maximusprometheus6149
    @maximusprometheus6149 2 года назад +4

    To pretend like those guys that beat Riis weren't as doped in those stage's in the Tour is a falacy

    • @cyclingstories
      @cyclingstories  Год назад

      Not with the preparation of Cecchini

    • @Matstarx25
      @Matstarx25 Год назад +3

      @@cyclingstories You should just take this video down if you cannot recognize that. The way the video is set up with the thumbnail, the music and the commentary is already disgusting as it is.

  • @Tsunamiieh
    @Tsunamiieh 10 месяцев назад

    Everyone is taking something. It's the mind that wins tour de france

  • @kypdur4746
    @kypdur4746 Год назад

    Are there any confirmed riders that were clean when they won a grand tour?
    Just wondering who really won them.

    • @neilchapman5145
      @neilchapman5145 Год назад

      It’s the dirtiest sport in the world, everyone is juiced

    • @kasperjepsen2917
      @kasperjepsen2917 Год назад

      Gino Bartali claimed to be clean, but that was in Coppis time when you could legally use stuff like amphetamines to enhance your performance. From what i recall, Gino Bartali won 5 Grand tours, so that’s maybe one. Fausto Coppi admitted to doping in an interview.

  • @hugopereira7442
    @hugopereira7442 2 года назад

    Anything about Froome or Wiggins?

  • @Skramso10
    @Skramso10 2 года назад +5

    So many facts u get wrong. He never said he could win the tour in 1993. He was just as surpriced he could follow the best on the clibs.

  • @alexanderishere1857
    @alexanderishere1857 Год назад +2

    Lance Armstrong took the use of medicaments of Indurain and Riis to another level. Medical science has evolved.

  • @gsipp00
    @gsipp00 2 года назад +4

    Castorama Kit the worst ever

  • @sorgpint
    @sorgpint Год назад +1

    In your dreams. Todays riders are much more doped, and the teams, antidoping , sponsors and uci are all in it together. It's a big narrative as always

  • @marylandflyer5670
    @marylandflyer5670 2 года назад +13

    Everyone knew he was doped to the max, and yet, he could go on to be a team director.

    • @veterinarius7646
      @veterinarius7646 2 года назад

      And direct another doping XD

    • @Clashjo
      @Clashjo 2 года назад +10

      Cyrille Guimard was doped to the max by Docteur Mabuse. He could go on as a team director of Hinault and Fignon ao. Then as a director of the French Team. He's still active in 2022. Please explain on which base would you forbid Rijs to work ?

    • @Laksilaks
      @Laksilaks Год назад +3

      Yet Michael Rasmussen was thrown under the bus for unveiling the doping community, like we didnt already know. That is the worst for me, that man got backstabbed.

  • @robinsrensen6802
    @robinsrensen6802 Год назад +1

    They were all doped ...

  • @neilberry1552
    @neilberry1552 Год назад +1

    Pogacar the new doper