@@suziederkins3310 Any other sport where your performance is not solely dependant on easily doped physical characteristics like endurance or strength will have way less doping. Cycling results are almost exclusively dependant on aerobic capacity and so the sport is inherently vulnerable to doping. Other sports that require more technical skills form their athletes like gymnastics, tennis, golf will also have their doping problems, but not to the same extent as cycling.
@@markwhaley596 not everyone had 45k US to pay for EPO per month so it wasn't 'everyone' or 'leveled ' but clean riders of this generation got nothing because of cheats like this fraud
If you are still interested in the PED's in sports subject, look into "The Secret Race" by Tyler Hamilton, one of Armstrong's former domestiques. It does a great job of pulling back the curtain to show exactly what went on in pro cycling with regards to doping. Even if you are not a cyclist, it is a fascinating read.
I do too. It’s a pretty intriguing topic. I would also recommend the documentary called “Icarus” on Netflix. It really goes into Russia’s extensive strategy to having their athletes use PED’s in the Olympics.
I grew up watching Lance Armstrong racing his Tours de France, and as a competitive young cyclist myself, it seemed clear to me that he (along with most other professional cyclists) were doing something that pushed past what mere mortals such as I could do, and I suspected that it wasn't legal/ethical. I was angry because it tarnished a truly beautiful sport. I've actually found Mr. Armstrong more interesting as a person now that he's been forced to face the truth of his past than I ever did when he was portrayed as a superhuman.
I don’t know much about cycling I was born in 1998 but my opinion is it definitely tarnished his career but playing devils advocate just taking it doesn’t do anything for you, you have to train like an animal so he was superhuman just the captain America kind brother
He didn't destroy his legacy. Everybody knows he won those seven tours. Nobody could stop him until he retired and tried to come back and the younger talent was at their peak (doped). That's his legacy
It wasn't a dark time. This year is dark. I'd rather have all our sports back than being cancelled by a virus. North American sports are awesome it's non Americans that don't want to see us beat their roided athletes.
60-70% if not more of the top athletes are on PEDs. Just wake up. You think world records that’s were set by dopers are being beat by ‘clean’ athletes lol. It’s a business, end of. Move past it and enjoy it for what it is, a spectacle.
I completely respect him being this real. It happens. Denying it and all the other negative stuff against others is what bothered me. I can deal with this. And I completely understand.
Don't be fooled, he is only this honest now because it is his only hope in hell of winning back any respect from the public. The guy would still be the same asshole he was before if he never got exposed the way he did.
He probably used stuff too. His competition did, it started in Europe before the US. It was already in baseball during the mid 80’s when Lemond was winning.
@@braves5696 of course lemond was doping, you can't win the tour twice in the late 80s and not dope. impossible. he's the biggest liar of all of them. trying to expose others to feel better about himself and feel superior to them. what a douche.
@@blackmamba3060 you are right. ONCE and Telekom had way more budget and experience with EPO than Armstrong in 1999, US Postal wasn't even equivalent of what is a World Tour team today and got invited to the tour. It's like comparing bardiani with quickstep or ineos
See kids, he's still getting all the attention he desires. Don't play by the rules, you'll get ahead, use each shortcut you can. Dope, dope up with anything that will go inside your body. Live your dreams.
Lance wanted to be a champion & during that era, that was only gonna be possible if he doped to level the playing field. It was evident by the fact even other pros were told you either dope or you don't in that sport but if you don't dope, don't expect to win
The real lesson this teaches is try and become too big to fail. If you generate huge amounts of revenue for the right people you can get away with anything.
😯😯😯😯 I hate when athletes point the finger instead of taking personal responsibility you're an athlete it's your job to know what you're putting in your body lets not make this man the big bad wolfe
I hear what you are saying, but in Lance's case I believe he did address this in the full version of the documentary... he said he always knew what he was taking and never played the plausible deniability card, he stated that he knew it was wrong and made the choice to do every substance he took. Don't quote me, but he said something to the effect of, "I always knew what was going on; it was never, 'take this, don't ask questions'. Because I would never have been down for that."
@@theworkerhours3141 No, he just got caught, period. When it comes to most multi-millionaire/world stage athletic sports chances are they're using steroids.
Here's how you can tell if you're an ignorant P.O.S. If you think Lance did ANYTHING differently than every other competitor in that race you are an iP.O.S.
Here's how you can tell if you're an ignorant P.O.S. If you think Lance did ANYTHING differently than every other competitor in that race you are an iP.O.S.
every single rider on the pro circuit are using peds…. simple as that... you cannot even stay with the main group without using peds…. let me say it again.... EVERY SINGLE RIDER ON THE PRO CIRCUIT IS USING THE LATEST PEDS AND BLOOD DOPING
Here's how you can tell if you're an ignorant P.O.S. If you think Lance did ANYTHING differently than every other competitor in that race you are an iP.O.S.
There isnt much else to take in terms of performance benefits in endurance/aerobic sport. They stayed away from hgh or anything anabolic to maintain a low body weight. Some pain killers were used but those were mainly legal and some still are (with doctors prescription)
@@tryhardpkerThis is false. There are dozens of PEs cyclists can ingest. They can drink derivatives of liquid oxygen and bypass aerobic respiration altogether. They can cycle for miles on end without having to take a single breath in.
When you listen to Tyler Hamilton speak about this period he seems very contrite and he knows the severity of his actions. Then there’s lance , he’s so arrogant. He’s like a child that got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
No, people just like to believe in teddy bears and unicorns. Lance decided to look at cycling for what it was during this time and decided he would be a winner and the best at it, that same mindset made him beat the cancer in his testes, lungs and brain. You may not like it but you’re linking in dreamland if you think a clean rider was going to win the TDF back then.
@@justtestingonce I know they were all dirty. It doesn’t make what Lance did to people (lawsuits) right. I was a fan , but when lance chased down Simeone on a stage and signaled to the camera to keep quiet just because he testified against his dr . That was the height of arrogance, which is all I was saying.
@@jasegmoney9542 yeah, my point is Lance knew what he was and committed 100% to it. Guys like Hamilton wanted the wins, the success, the fame and then grew a conscious once they were getting caught and started ratting on Lance. Same with Floyd, it wasn’t like they said “you know I don’t like this and I’ll not join the top team for all the glory and fame”. Today they wanna act like saints and rest everything on Lance’s shoulders.
Since fluids in space float would stomach acid float as well? If so is their a way to keep it down? I’m working on something and need a response in 2020-2030
@tehanomander your naive to even consider other riders were not doping "as much" as Lance, and that its his doping alone which won him races. He was by far the best out of a Peloton full of doped up riders. If all that was required for other riders to win was to take MORE magic juice, then that is exactly what they would have done. He is a liar and a cheat, but still an incredibly talented cyclist. The best of a "bad" lot.
@tehanomander Thanks for your reply. I'm not a fan of Lance. Not sure why you thought that. My main issue is that you were implying that he might not have been even a "good" cyclist. Anyway, we are all entitled to our opinions at the end of the day and I accept we disagree on this one. In the end, neither you or I really know what was going on behind the scenes. We can assume who was and who wasn't cheating etc, but its all really educated guesswork in the end. Not too sure what your comment at the end was all about. The "heroic" part that is. anyway, hope all is well :)
from his first win everyone in france knew he was doped. the US corporate sponsors and us press help cover up for their golden goose. the same lot washed their hands of Lance when it finaly came out
all the frontrunners were doping...and he still won seven...because he was the best. like to see you take some EPO and even complete a single stage of the tour...let alone a mountain stage.
Lance is a champion, drugs are everywhere in sports, he’s still the best of his generation and his rat teammates who outed him should live their lives in shame and he should live guilt free
anybody who really thinks lemond wasn't doping too (while dropping hinault) and otherwise will happily purchase a large bridge over waterfront property in the sahara-
Definitely, there's no need to continue telling his story. He lied, he cheated, he had his 7 titles stripped from him, though if you look at his Twitter handle, he touts himself as a 7 time winner of the maillot jaune. He's still in denial and continues to evade responsibility for his deeds and actions. How can anyone believe a word he says-past, present, or future? It's a better story to tell of someone who struggled through adversity and still came out a winner, despite the odds, through hard work and determination, not blood doping.
Bluebird Running Company like Derek Bouchard Hall and Christophe Bassons could have had a chance to let hard work pay off if the system kept docs like Ferrari the fukc out
any cheater was a liar - and they all cheated. you simply don't take PED's and admit it. i don't understand why everyone attacks his character. undeniably, he was the greatest cyclist from his era. therefore, he had a lot more to protect including his Livestrong foundation so to punish the guy for trying to keep his name clean just like EVERYONE else in this sport that was doping is hypocritical. and cinderella stories are boring - this is a breathe of fresh air.
They all cheated when he won, many still do. PED's are essential if you want to compete in any sport. Lance won those titles...he knows it & so does everyone else in the sport, past & present.
Jonathan King what are talking about man the guy is a beast... whatever he was taking everyone should take it! Including your weak a**. Enough of this natural athlete sh*t because no one at a high level of sport is “natural” they all supplement.
Lance is a legend, no matter if he cheated or not. He had talent. You HAD to do it to be even at top 30. Imagine having to choose: 1. have no chances to win, or 2. Be one of the boys. Also, "doping" didn't have the stigma it has today.
Armstrong was a good one day race when he was already taking PED, but was absolute terrible on mountains because his body was not build to be a climber. Then he went to Dr. Ferrari and he basicall rebuilt his body taking all the substances available in the 90's, not only EPO. He's the ultimate cheater, nobody comes even close to him.
@@charlesdarks8850 Certainly not Valverde or Horner, or Landis, or Hamilton, or Simoni, or Virenque, or Ullrich, or Rasmussen, or........it's a long list lol.
It’s all out there already. This stuff isn’t new. I think the only difference is that those in this excerpt haven’t spoke candidly of it before. What this is is an acknowledgement that those who were brave enough to speak out both at the time and some time ago were telling the truth. Simone and Landis to name a few. Oh how differently some people manage to poorly judge Landis yet can’t get past the hype of Armstrong. It’s a funny ole wurld.
Pantani - Doped. Ulrich - Doped. Armstrong - Doped. It was effectively dope and place or race for last place. Everyone is pissed at Armstrong, but others came off lightly. But, lets be real - he had skill. Dope alone won't get you 7 Tour de France jerseys.
I don't think anyone is "pissed" at Armstrong, but not only was he a doper, he threatened to ruin the careers and lives of people that questioned him. None of the other cheats did that
Lance has managed to give people (fans and haters) unprecedented life action and drama, controversial and interesting! All, in one way or another enjoyed the play. Just quick reminder: Contador and Valverde are still out there busting ... keeping up with best young men half their age ;-) In my opinion Lance has "served his time" for the wrong doing, and maybe he is returning again to give another insight into sport (his and Hincapie's WeDu talks about TDF are much more insightful than sports channel and commenter notes).
Has anyone else noticed that Ferrari and Alberto Salazar could be brothers? Or at least cousins? The almost verbatim identical accounts of his fixation on his athletes' weight, being seemingly impervious to suspicion...
Here's how you can tell if you're an ignorant P.O.S. If you think Lance did ANYTHING differently than every other competitor in that race you are an iP.O.S.
People just like to believe in teddy bears and unicorns. Lance decided to look at cycling for what it was during this time and decided he would be a winner and the best at it, that same mindset made him beat the cancer in his testes, lungs and brain. You may not like it but you’re living in dreamland if you think a clean rider was going to win the TDF back then.
the reason they went after lance and usps/radio shack wasn't because they thought they were the only ones doping,it was because they figured out how to do it better than anyone else ever had!!!
@@cycleoflife565 you're absolutely right becuse the tour execs knew that lance was the best thing that had happened to the tour for a while. record viewership in the u.s. and around the world, and there's certainly a chance that trek with record sales and profits may have had their finger in the pie. there's the well known fact that the officials gave lance a mulligan when they found steroids in his pee test and allowed him to get an rx for creram to heal a "saddle sore" that likely anyone else would have been tossed.
Lance likes to say "it was a bad time" as an excuse for his horrendous behavior. Let me detail just how Lance was so much worse than anyone he raced against. First and foremost, Lance Armstrong is a CRIMINAL, you can watch him commit perjury on RUclips... he abused the legal systems of several countries... failed false claims of slander and libel... and infringement on the civil rights of Americans. Not to mention the fact that the UCI gave him special treatment. Lance Armstrong is the very definition of evil.
Numerous people doped in this era so it came down to genetics & hard work whether you like it or not. For that reason, I feel like what he accomplished was still by definition, great (even if he's been stripped of everything)
I'm sure he doesn't regret much considering that he won 7 tour de France titles, but could he have done so without the doping? Maybe those titles wouldn't carry huge asterisks with them.
There isn't an asterisks, all 7 wins were revoked, he currently has 0 TDF wins, just to clarify. Also consider he was getting dropped and went DNF, DNF, 36th, DNF in his first 4 TDFs
Yeah because it just it came down to that you were going to do whatever it takes to be number one in the world and that's all there is to it in a nutshell and either you follow it to the letter of what this guy's telling you or you're going to lose so it's simple as that so from there on questions can you adapt to the training or not and maybe maybe there's only a handful of individuals in history that could handle what you went through to do it cuz they haven't show blow might not be able to do it because not everybody has the mental toughness or mindset they break mentally before they physically break so I think that let them broke mentally because they're afraid to go on but then again maybe there's diets were insufficient so as hard as they tried to beat you they couldn't because they bumped they ran out of carbohydrates or sugar glucose or water or something
he does own it but also does not regret it because he know he could have not won clean. At that time nobody could win clean and thats why he cant regret what he did
Looking at the comments, there are as many opinion's as people. At the end of the day, a bad guy gets headlines in this world and he put cycling on the map. I just feel sorry for those who didn't dope as much as he did. Sport is never a level playing field.
People respond differently to dopping. Biggest thing was how much of a bully Lance was to teammates, media, and rivals. Especially threatening teammates to dope or else.
@@HarryPNess-us2vs i never said he wasn't. No one could touch him from 99-05 besides Ullrich in 03 when he finally showed up in 97 shape. The fact he survived cancer and came back is commendable and all he did for cancer charity. His work ethic was superb and he got his sponsors to work together to make his equipment. But without the top of the line program I don't think he would have been as good as he was during his TdF run. Others including Ullrich were more talented, Armstrong just wanted it more and had better pieces around him. All the work he did off the bike doesn't make up for what his personality is. We can't change history with hypotheticals but the notion of since everyone else was doing it makes him still the best without drugs or them all with it is false. You and I can both take EPO and blood bags and have different effects.
@@HarryPNess-us2vs and what's even crazier is he could have got away with it if he never came back in 09-10. There would have been no investigation, nothing. His own hubris and attacking everyone was his downfall.
yeah, and everyone who doped also calls the UCI to get rid of any positive test results (Lance tested positive in 99' and 01'). Also everyone else flies their dope in private jets into private airports so it doesnt get screened. Oh, also if they feel threatened, any cyclist can call the UCI to threaten any other cyclist (what Lance did to Tyler when TH almost beat him in a mountain stage). Yeah, everyone cheated like you said... but Lance just had a few extra little perks. :)
It's as if people are afraid that, eventually' their 'clean' heroes of the sport will be outed, too, if the athletes keep talking about it. For the rest of us - knowing full well that the entire peleton was doping, it's good to hear them all speak about it.
"there were clean athletes who did not get to have experiences (winning) because of their (athletes who were doping) actions, and i'm one of them". What a lying hypocrit. There is not 1 pro cyclist since the 50's that didnt use "illegal" methods to boost their perfomance. And he gets to stare at the camera and lie to our faces and passing judgemental on his betters, just cause he didn't get officialy caught. These people are the worst kind. Lance is still the best cyclist ever. If there were no drugs available, he would still be the best. The guy risked his cancer treatment efficiency (and therefore his life) so he could have a chance of competing IF he lived through it. I would never do that cause i value my life way more than any activity, but it was his choice, and it paid off for him. He is a f@cking legend.
So would Lance have been a hero and would his foundation have generated 500 mil, and would he had brought hope and other valuable consideration to cancer survivors and those afflicted with the dreaded disease----So would all this have happened if Lance did like the 3% who chose not to engage in what everyone else was doing---The answer is an obvious NO....No one would have cared about Lance Armstrong, we'd never hear from him again, and he would have faded away like a nobody but hey there woulda been, I guess those others who wlda given him props for "doing the right thing." They wouldn't be hard to find either, they would be the ones finishing last.....So 0 good comes out of him competing on bread and water, except maybe a pat on back but abundance of good comes about because he did what everyone else was doing....I really don't understand the dilemma tbh.....
In another lifetime Ferrari would be regarded as a genius
an evil genius
I'll always respect lance for his role in Tour De Pharmacy
You think Tour De Pharmacy doesnt happen anymore...lol
@@DublinDapper Who claims that? Pharmacy is always at least one step ahead.😜
Name one sport that's not tainted by PEDs? Funny how cycling gets a bad rap yet every other sport get a free pass.
@@suziederkins3310 literally no sports get a pass stop making up stuff
@@suziederkins3310 Any other sport where your performance is not solely dependant on easily doped physical characteristics like endurance or strength will have way less doping. Cycling results are almost exclusively dependant on aerobic capacity and so the sport is inherently vulnerable to doping. Other sports that require more technical skills form their athletes like gymnastics, tennis, golf will also have their doping problems, but not to the same extent as cycling.
Lance's comment "It worked for me" pretty much explains everything.
Just like "this would have never happened [me getting caught] if I didn't make that 2009 comeback [got too greedy]"
@@deuterium_pottage yes cancer
It also worked for everyone else. Lance would be the goat on any equal playing field.
@@markwhaley596 actually not so but whatever.
@@markwhaley596 not everyone had 45k US to pay for EPO per month so it wasn't 'everyone' or 'leveled ' but clean riders of this generation got nothing because of cheats like this fraud
I find PED’s in sports so fascinating. I want to see this.
If you are still interested in the PED's in sports subject, look into "The Secret Race" by Tyler Hamilton, one of Armstrong's former domestiques. It does a great job of pulling back the curtain to show exactly what went on in pro cycling with regards to doping. Even if you are not a cyclist, it is a fascinating read.
I do too. It’s a pretty intriguing topic. I would also recommend the documentary called “Icarus” on Netflix. It really goes into Russia’s extensive strategy to having their athletes use PED’s in the Olympics.
The actor who played Dr Michele Ferarri in The Program did such a good job. He looks exactly like him.
Looking like someone and doing a great job of portraying them are two different things..
I grew up watching Lance Armstrong racing his Tours de France, and as a competitive young cyclist myself, it seemed clear to me that he (along with most other professional cyclists) were doing something that pushed past what mere mortals such as I could do, and I suspected that it wasn't legal/ethical. I was angry because it tarnished a truly beautiful sport. I've actually found Mr. Armstrong more interesting as a person now that he's been forced to face the truth of his past than I ever did when he was portrayed as a superhuman.
I don’t know much about cycling I was born in 1998 but my opinion is it definitely tarnished his career but playing devils advocate just taking it doesn’t do anything for you, you have to train like an animal so he was superhuman just the captain America kind brother
@@pwnster14 yup he was still training like 30+ hours probably
Eddie Merx was stimulant user in his day. It’s a weird sport to begin with.
Eddy is Dope! 😂
The guy destroyed his own legacy and u treat him like it never happen
He didn't destroy his legacy. Everybody knows he won those seven tours. Nobody could stop him until he retired and tried to come back and the younger talent was at their peak (doped). That's his legacy
Who treats him like it never happened?
Complexion for the protection
They were all using and some are still cheating ..
Lance is the GOAT no matter what !
Hes white he can always bounce back in this society
You had to witness the streak 99-04 of the Tour d' France to know how huge this story is. It was a dark time with peds in North American sports.
It wasn't a dark time. This year is dark. I'd rather have all our sports back than being cancelled by a virus. North American sports are awesome it's non Americans that don't want to see us beat their roided athletes.
What doping has always existed in sports? They are only sorry because they got caught.
All of your American athleats are drug useres, past present and im sure for the future as well
@@mindciller ha ha
60-70% if not more of the top athletes are on PEDs. Just wake up. You think world records that’s were set by dopers are being beat by ‘clean’ athletes lol. It’s a business, end of. Move past it and enjoy it for what it is, a spectacle.
Michele Ferreira is a genius 🦁
TJ Dillashaw has entered the chat
Nah Jon Jones has tho
@@BG-fh5me
TJ takes epo
@@MichaelP-ke1tm true they're all on something though
LOL
USADA has banned TJ from the chat
I completely respect him being this real. It happens. Denying it and all the other negative stuff against others is what bothered me. I can deal with this. And I completely understand.
Don't be fooled, he is only this honest now because it is his only hope in hell of winning back any respect from the public. The guy would still be the same asshole he was before if he never got exposed the way he did.
@@iaingreig9685 no he is only honest now to avoid jail
Ive been waiting for this just like any Cycling Fan
Can you Imagine Greg Lemond’s mindset after Lance finally getting exposed
He probably used stuff too. His competition did, it started in Europe before the US. It was already in baseball during the mid 80’s when Lemond was winning.
@@braves5696 of course lemond was doping, you can't win the tour twice in the late 80s and not dope. impossible.
he's the biggest liar of all of them. trying to expose others to feel better about himself and feel superior to them. what a douche.
@@braves5696 he definitely did
@@alexanderishere1857 Source?
@@braves5696 Read Fignon's book. EPO didn't exist in widespread use in the 80's. Try again, Lance Lover.
Lance is the GOAT no matter what they say 😆
The whole top 10 was using but he was still beating them up 😅
Not true, everyone wasn't on the same gear.
@@blackmamba3060 you are right. ONCE and Telekom had way more budget and experience with EPO than Armstrong in 1999, US Postal wasn't even equivalent of what is a World Tour team today and got invited to the tour. It's like comparing bardiani with quickstep or ineos
Ferrari: All you need is red cells!
Russia: Hold my vodka!🥃
Somewhat more than that.
See kids, he's still getting all the attention he desires. Don't play by the rules, you'll get ahead, use each shortcut you can. Dope, dope up with anything that will go inside your body.
Live your dreams.
Lance wanted to be a champion & during that era, that was only gonna be possible if he doped to level the playing field. It was evident by the fact even other pros were told you either dope or you don't in that sport but if you don't dope, don't expect to win
The real lesson this teaches is try and become too big to fail. If you generate huge amounts of revenue for the right people you can get away with anything.
Don't hate the player hate the game
@@HarryPNess-us2vs he was doping long before he came to europe
@@mrtoad1408 Not forever.
😯😯😯😯 I hate when athletes point the finger instead of taking personal responsibility you're an athlete it's your job to know what you're putting in your body lets not make this man the big bad wolfe
I hear what you are saying, but in Lance's case I believe he did address this in the full version of the documentary... he said he always knew what he was taking and never played the plausible deniability card, he stated that he knew it was wrong and made the choice to do every substance he took. Don't quote me, but he said something to the effect of, "I always knew what was going on; it was never, 'take this, don't ask questions'. Because I would never have been down for that."
Aren’t pro cyclists still doping? Doubt they’re all clean.
@fensterfred you know Lance never tested positive right? He was tested as much as any athlete ever. They will always be 1 step ahead.
EPO rocks! A Pharma that makes EPO should sponsor a pro bike racing team!
Well, Amgen DID sponsor the Tour of California for a good while when it was around. Close enough?
Yeah people say is bad ...lence looks good to me after all this years of doping 😂😂😂
what kind of documentary is it? who is Lance Armstrong?
It is a documentary about greatest cyclist of all time, His name is Lance Armstrong (7xTdF winner)
@@matejburian3191 what did you mean? I googled his name and came out DOPE Armstrong. He couldn't be the greatest cyclist of all time. what a joke
@@theworkerhours3141 in his time all good guys were doped. Level playing field. So he was the best. He won 7 tdf.
@@Patrick-yo6mz he cheated. period
@@theworkerhours3141 No, he just got caught, period.
When it comes to most multi-millionaire/world stage athletic sports chances are they're using steroids.
Can this be seen on the internet anywhere. I’m from Australia
Get a free trial for Kayosports, it's on there
@@thomasmyers9134 thanks for that I’ll look into it.
Russian Olympic Team: This dude is our role model.
oh yes, the "clean" US olympic team
He's AMERICAN
@@janeztomazic5546 Yes but the STATE sponsors it in Russia. (Not American)
@@NTL578 Yeah, let's dismiss the US doping problems (in all professional sports) simply because others do it differently. Typical American.
mmm... He is american dude. Yet you bring up russians into you sentence... hilarious.
Cant spell DOPE without EPO. Soak that in, kids.
7 Tour de France on drugs, and when I am drunk I can’t even find my bike 😀
This joke is lame and old
Sebastian I thought it was funny
Super lame! 🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
Anyone else get a drug commercial ad on this video? lol
You are the best doper EVER Lance!
Bjarne riis*
Here's how you can tell if you're an ignorant P.O.S. If you think Lance did ANYTHING differently than every other competitor in that race you are an iP.O.S.
I give my dogs Red Cell and I always repeat what Ferrari said to Lance. My gf has no clue what I’m talking about lol
Best doper of his generation. Legend in his own mind until he got caught.
Everyone was doing it
It just level the
playing field
@@iammaximus614 Yup everyone was doing and I'm sure thats why there wasn't an official winner for those years.
still a legend. the greatest ever. if all wouldve been clean he would still have dominated. there really was no choice.
@@franz009franz nope.
Here's how you can tell if you're an ignorant P.O.S. If you think Lance did ANYTHING differently than every other competitor in that race you are an iP.O.S.
No respect for cheaters
Everyone was cheating in that sport so just say you don’t respect the tour
every single rider on the pro circuit are using peds…. simple as that... you cannot even stay with the main group without using peds…. let me say it again.... EVERY SINGLE RIDER ON THE PRO CIRCUIT IS USING THE LATEST PEDS AND BLOOD DOPING
its not cheating if everybody does it.
@Wilson 95%. anyone in the top 3/4s for sure.
Here's how you can tell if you're an ignorant P.O.S. If you think Lance did ANYTHING differently than every other competitor in that race you are an iP.O.S.
Where can I watch the whole doco?
ESPN plus
@@SIMOLAMBOTZ thats not what hes asking...
1:45 "and that's it" and then Lance licks his lips. ahahahahaha. there was more, clearly
There isnt much else to take in terms of performance benefits in endurance/aerobic sport. They stayed away from hgh or anything anabolic to maintain a low body weight. Some pain killers were used but those were mainly legal and some still are (with doctors prescription)
@@tryhardpkerThis is false. There are dozens of PEs cyclists can ingest. They can drink derivatives of liquid oxygen and bypass aerobic respiration altogether. They can cycle for miles on end without having to take a single breath in.
If he was introduced to Ferrari by Merckx... then Merckx was ...
Everyone knows both Merckx's were dopers
@@treygray2817 but still presented as a hero from Aso and LA is banned what freaks
Of course, the cycling God knows all about it and has conmections
MJ: GOAT for team sports
Lance: GOAT for individual sports
When you listen to Tyler Hamilton speak about this period he seems very contrite and he knows the severity of his actions. Then there’s lance , he’s so arrogant. He’s like a child that got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
No, people just like to believe in teddy bears and unicorns. Lance decided to look at cycling for what it was during this time and decided he would be a winner and the best at it, that same mindset made him beat the cancer in his testes, lungs and brain. You may not like it but you’re linking in dreamland if you think a clean rider was going to win the TDF back then.
@@justtestingonce I know they were all dirty. It doesn’t make what Lance did to people (lawsuits) right. I was a fan , but when lance chased down Simeone on a stage and signaled to the camera to keep quiet just because he testified against his dr . That was the height of arrogance, which is all I was saying.
@@jasegmoney9542 yeah, my point is Lance knew what he was and committed 100% to it. Guys like Hamilton wanted the wins, the success, the fame and then grew a conscious once they were getting caught and started ratting on Lance. Same with Floyd, it wasn’t like they said “you know I don’t like this and I’ll not join the top team for all the glory and fame”. Today they wanna act like saints and rest everything on Lance’s shoulders.
The only thing Lance is sorry about is that he got caught.
@@ParzivalPlaysAtari Hamilton only came out to avoid jail
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I’m watching the Astronaut farmer just a note
AORTIC VALVE
A roidhead beat other roidheads for 7 years I think he is the goat
@tehanomander your naive to even consider other riders were not doping "as much" as Lance, and that its his doping alone which won him races. He was by far the best out of a Peloton full of doped up riders. If all that was required for other riders to win was to take MORE magic juice, then that is exactly what they would have done. He is a liar and a cheat, but still an incredibly talented cyclist. The best of a "bad" lot.
@tehanomander Thanks for your reply. I'm not a fan of Lance. Not sure why you thought that. My main issue is that you were implying that he might not have been even a "good" cyclist. Anyway, we are all entitled to our opinions at the end of the day and I accept we disagree on this one. In the end, neither you or I really know what was going on behind the scenes. We can assume who was and who wasn't cheating etc, but its all really educated guesswork in the end. Not too sure what your comment at the end was all about. The "heroic" part that is. anyway, hope all is well :)
genius this italian doctor
The greatest sports doctor ever to walk the fave of the earth
Old news, back when Axel Merckx went to Ferrari it was in the cycling press...
wow, never heard that before. Can you imagine sending your son to a doctor to get doped? What a POS
from his first win everyone in france knew he was doped. the US corporate sponsors and us press help cover up for their golden goose. the same lot washed their hands of Lance when it finaly came out
does somebody know the background music?
You can't argue it worked for Lance, 7 wins is still the benchmark.
all the frontrunners were doping...and he still won seven...because he was the best. like to see you take some EPO and even complete a single stage of the tour...let alone a mountain stage.
michele ferrari is a genius
Lance is the GOAT
Lance is a champion, drugs are everywhere in sports, he’s still the best of his generation and his rat teammates who outed him should live their lives in shame and he should live guilt free
anybody who really thinks lemond wasn't doping too (while dropping hinault) and otherwise will happily purchase a large bridge over waterfront property in the sahara-
Definitely, there's no need to continue telling his story. He lied, he cheated, he had his 7 titles stripped from him, though if you look at his Twitter handle, he touts himself as a 7 time winner of the maillot jaune. He's still in denial and continues to evade responsibility for his deeds and actions. How can anyone believe a word he says-past, present, or future? It's a better story to tell of someone who struggled through adversity and still came out a winner, despite the odds, through hard work and determination, not blood doping.
Bluebird Running Company like Derek Bouchard Hall and Christophe Bassons could have had a chance to let hard work pay off if the system kept docs like Ferrari the fukc out
any cheater was a liar - and they all cheated. you simply don't take PED's and admit it. i don't understand why everyone attacks his character. undeniably, he was the greatest cyclist from his era. therefore, he had a lot more to protect including his Livestrong foundation so to punish the guy for trying to keep his name clean just like EVERYONE else in this sport that was doping is hypocritical. and cinderella stories are boring - this is a breathe of fresh air.
They all cheated when he won, many still do. PED's are essential if you want to compete in any sport. Lance won those titles...he knows it & so does everyone else in the sport, past & present.
Glorifying a cheater . Absolute madness
No glorification. Just telling the guy's story.
I don’t care what PED’s he was on! The guy almost died of cancer and not only came back, but won the tour d’ France
Jonathan King what are talking about man the guy is a beast... whatever he was taking everyone should take it! Including your weak a**. Enough of this natural athlete sh*t because no one at a high level of sport is “natural” they all supplement.
Armstrong is the real JR EWING.
Lance goes hard
The OG CEO of EPO!
What Lance actually means is: The GOAT believes doping in cycling is part of the game.
Even though he doped his way through the Tour De France and lied to the world. I still forgive him for doing that.
Well, I guess that settles it. Thank you for putting us all at ease.
Lance is a legend, no matter if he cheated or not. He had talent. You HAD to do it to be even at top 30. Imagine having to choose: 1. have no chances to win, or 2. Be one of the boys.
Also, "doping" didn't have the stigma it has today.
Armstrong was a good one day race when he was already taking PED, but was absolute terrible on mountains because his body was not build to be a climber. Then he went to Dr. Ferrari and he basicall rebuilt his body taking all the substances available in the 90's, not only EPO. He's the ultimate cheater, nobody comes even close to him.
@@charlesdarks8850 Certainly not Valverde or Horner, or Landis, or Hamilton, or Simoni, or Virenque, or Ullrich, or Rasmussen, or........it's a long list lol.
7 TDF in a row Lance was also the best bike handler in TDF history look how many pros have crashed out
His Team was so strong, that he always was protected in the first rows of the field...but indeed, he had also a good technic in the bike
@@davidehmann8105 yes agree the doping was ot the only factor in his wins thats why it was great to watch
The GOAT. Thank you Lance.
It’s all out there already. This stuff isn’t new.
I think the only difference is that those in this excerpt haven’t spoke candidly of it before.
What this is is an acknowledgement that those who were brave enough to speak out both at the time and some time ago were telling the truth.
Simone and Landis to name a few.
Oh how differently some people manage to poorly judge Landis yet can’t get past the hype of Armstrong.
It’s a funny ole wurld.
I need some epo
Pantani - Doped. Ulrich - Doped. Armstrong - Doped. It was effectively dope and place or race for last place. Everyone is pissed at Armstrong, but others came off lightly. But, lets be real - he had skill. Dope alone won't get you 7 Tour de France jerseys.
The ones that won doped.... Bit many other cyclists did not....
I don't think anyone is "pissed" at Armstrong, but not only was he a doper, he threatened to ruin the careers and lives of people that questioned him. None of the other cheats did that
Rudi Coetzee
You are a simpleton. Please don't vote or operate machinery in public.
Lance has managed to give people (fans and haters) unprecedented life action and drama, controversial and interesting! All, in one way or another enjoyed the play. Just quick reminder: Contador and Valverde are still out there busting ... keeping up with best young men half their age ;-)
In my opinion Lance has "served his time" for the wrong doing, and maybe he is returning again to give another insight into sport (his and Hincapie's WeDu talks about TDF are much more insightful than sports channel and commenter notes).
served his time? He is still liying, hiding the truth and insultin people that exposed him.
Um, Contador retired in 2017.
Lance..... still be best athlete you’ll ever find EVER
Everybody did epo at thet time so lence was the best.
Has anyone else noticed that Ferrari and Alberto Salazar could be brothers? Or at least cousins? The almost verbatim identical accounts of his fixation on his athletes' weight, being seemingly impervious to suspicion...
Legend this man
Lance you broke my dreams
They were broken long before you realized. Take responsibility for your own broken life.
People want to see superhuman performances but act disgusted when they realise how it happens hahahahah.
Here's how you can tell if you're an ignorant P.O.S. If you think Lance did ANYTHING differently than every other competitor in that race you are an iP.O.S.
Ferrari is the dr. Frankenstein of cycling he created monsters
People just like to believe in teddy bears and unicorns. Lance decided to look at cycling for what it was during this time and decided he would be a winner and the best at it, that same mindset made him beat the cancer in his testes, lungs and brain. You may not like it but you’re living in dreamland if you think a clean rider was going to win the TDF back then.
the reason they went after lance and usps/radio shack wasn't because they thought they were the only ones doping,it was because they figured out how to do it better than anyone else ever had!!!
They went after all of their rivals and their teams first. Lance was protected because of his power and influence and thus so was his team.
@@cycleoflife565 you're absolutely right becuse the tour execs knew that lance was the best thing that had happened to the tour for a while. record viewership in the u.s. and around the world, and there's certainly a chance that trek with record sales and profits may have had their finger in the pie. there's the well known fact that the officials gave lance a mulligan when they found steroids in his pee test and allowed him to get an rx for creram to heal a "saddle sore" that likely anyone else would have been tossed.
Lance Armstrong is the man.
I believe lebron got a lil lance Armstrong in him
He would of got caught by now
STFU
@@flexbori nba dont even test.
@flex holland obviously Lebrun is on. His hair is all patchy just like Mike Tyson in his heavy ped days.
@@mindciller - Black men go bald. Happened to MJ, too. Doesn't mean much.
Was stronger leaner and with huge endurance and oxygenation it probably like two men
Lance likes to say "it was a bad time" as an excuse for his horrendous behavior. Let me detail just how Lance was so much worse than anyone he raced against. First and foremost, Lance Armstrong is a CRIMINAL, you can watch him commit perjury on RUclips... he abused the legal systems of several countries... failed false claims of slander and libel... and infringement on the civil rights of Americans. Not to mention the fact that the UCI gave him special treatment. Lance Armstrong is the very definition of evil.
Relagated to the dustbin of history
He was the American doing it. EXTRAguilty. It is absurd to think he's the only one.
like Merckx
If Floyd Landis is a “piece of s$&#” as Lance said, what does that make Lance?
At least Landis is cooking dope now legally 😀
Barry bonds better get a doc
He does have
Sports Century espn doc 1990's
Early 00's
Numerous people doped in this era so it came down to genetics & hard work whether you like it or not. For that reason, I feel like what he accomplished was still by definition, great (even if he's been stripped of everything)
You're dumb dude.
You say that cus hes white. What about Jon Jones??
Doesn't he sing that song that goes "I'm a cowboy on a steel horse I ride" 🚴♂️
I'm sure he doesn't regret much considering that he won 7 tour de France titles, but could he have done so without the doping? Maybe those titles wouldn't carry huge asterisks with them.
There isn't an asterisks, all 7 wins were revoked, he currently has 0 TDF wins, just to clarify. Also consider he was getting dropped and went DNF, DNF, 36th, DNF in his first 4 TDFs
Most likely, he would not have won any clean.
@@JumpingWatermelons he would not have won clean but nobody could have won clean at that time
Yeah because it just it came down to that you were going to do whatever it takes to be number one in the world and that's all there is to it in a nutshell and either you follow it to the letter of what this guy's telling you or you're going to lose so it's simple as that so from there on questions can you adapt to the training or not and maybe maybe there's only a handful of individuals in history that could handle what you went through to do it cuz they haven't show blow might not be able to do it because not everybody has the mental toughness or mindset they break mentally before they physically break so I think that let them broke mentally because they're afraid to go on but then again maybe there's diets were insufficient so as hard as they tried to beat you they couldn't because they bumped they ran out of carbohydrates or sugar glucose or water or something
Own it lance don’t blame anyone...we all have choices
he does own it but also does not regret it because he know he could have not won clean. At that time nobody could win clean and thats why he cant regret what he did
Looking at the comments, there are as many opinion's as people. At the end of the day, a bad guy gets headlines in this world and he put cycling on the map. I just feel sorry for those who didn't dope as much as he did. Sport is never a level playing field.
Right on lance
Everyone else was cheating at that time. Lance the goat beat them all.
People respond differently to dopping. Biggest thing was how much of a bully Lance was to teammates, media, and rivals. Especially threatening teammates to dope or else.
@@TheSHAD0W93 you didn't have to like Lance as a person, but you should still respect that he was the best at what he did at the time
@@HarryPNess-us2vs i never said he wasn't. No one could touch him from 99-05 besides Ullrich in 03 when he finally showed up in 97 shape. The fact he survived cancer and came back is commendable and all he did for cancer charity. His work ethic was superb and he got his sponsors to work together to make his equipment. But without the top of the line program I don't think he would have been as good as he was during his TdF run. Others including Ullrich were more talented, Armstrong just wanted it more and had better pieces around him. All the work he did off the bike doesn't make up for what his personality is. We can't change history with hypotheticals but the notion of since everyone else was doing it makes him still the best without drugs or them all with it is false. You and I can both take EPO and blood bags and have different effects.
@@HarryPNess-us2vs and what's even crazier is he could have got away with it if he never came back in 09-10. There would have been no investigation, nothing. His own hubris and attacking everyone was his downfall.
yeah, and everyone who doped also calls the UCI to get rid of any positive test results (Lance tested positive in 99' and 01'). Also everyone else flies their dope in private jets into private airports so it doesnt get screened. Oh, also if they feel threatened, any cyclist can call the UCI to threaten any other cyclist (what Lance did to Tyler when TH almost beat him in a mountain stage). Yeah, everyone cheated like you said... but Lance just had a few extra little perks. :)
A shame that this cheater gets more attention than front line workers who show 100 times more courage, honesty and compassion.
kinda like influencers on the internet, versus real talent, eh?
He is a little bit to early not allowing people to forget. He should have wait with the documentary another 50 years.
It's as if people are afraid that, eventually' their 'clean' heroes of the sport will be outed, too, if the athletes keep talking about it. For the rest of us - knowing full well that the entire peleton was doping, it's good to hear them all speak about it.
"there were clean athletes who did not get to have experiences (winning) because of their (athletes who were doping) actions, and i'm one of them". What a lying hypocrit. There is not 1 pro cyclist since the 50's that didnt use "illegal" methods to boost their perfomance. And he gets to stare at the camera and lie to our faces and passing judgemental on his betters, just cause he didn't get officialy caught. These people are the worst kind. Lance is still the best cyclist ever. If there were no drugs available, he would still be the best. The guy risked his cancer treatment efficiency (and therefore his life) so he could have a chance of competing IF he lived through it. I would never do that cause i value my life way more than any activity, but it was his choice, and it paid off for him. He is a f@cking legend.
Κωστής Lemond must be due sometime soon, I mean come on!!
Bonnie Ford the same as Carol Baskin
"Whatever he said, I did."
Whhhoooaa... Whatever? When you let man lead your life, you think this way.
He is kind of admitting fault but also trying to take away personal responsibility.
One way to stay in the clouds.......but he knew very well that Ferrari wasn't clean weed!
Can you watch this on netflix???
Wish people would stop giving lance a hard time for winning all his races on drugs. When i was on drugs i could'nt even find my bike
But let’s be honest. Does anyone really care about this one
This documentary was about as needed as "The Last Dance".
It's impressive how he still manages to stay relevant after being exposed as a shameful fraud.
@@ChristopherX30 what 😂😂
ESPN keeps going down the drain.... allowing air time to a sociopath that can't be trusted on one single word coming out of his mouth.
Yo espn. Let me watch this in Canada on demand man. I can't watch 30 for 30 in canada at all
You're screwing up hard.
It was on TSN. I can't think of any 30 for 30s that haven't been on TSN.
The only thing Lance is sorry about is that he got caught.
So would Lance have been a hero and would his foundation have generated 500 mil, and would he had brought hope and other valuable consideration to cancer survivors and those afflicted with the dreaded disease----So would all this have happened if Lance did like the 3% who chose not to engage in what everyone else was doing---The answer is an obvious NO....No one would have cared about Lance Armstrong, we'd never hear from him again, and he would have faded away like a nobody but hey there woulda been, I guess those others who wlda given him props for "doing the right thing." They wouldn't be hard to find either, they would be the ones finishing last.....So 0 good comes out of him competing on bread and water, except maybe a pat on back but abundance of good comes about because he did what everyone else was doing....I really don't understand the dilemma tbh.....
Hgh, trt, Adderall and epo are the common base line
After watching this 30 for 30, I despise him even more.