My first thought when Bernal left the Tour was that Contador would never have left/quit - he would have tried to win a stage.

@@LovveLRS Egan Bernal knows a lot more about what happened there. His decision to leave was hard and certainly an involuntary one. Maybe the whole misery will come to light. I hope so. Bernal is a man of honor and has a lot of character

I don`t miss him at all.

@@iavor3377 hater?

We don't miss dopers

Everything I have heard about Contador as a person has been very positive. What a contrast to Lance Armstrong! Despite his run-in with doping when almost everyone was doping, he is still one of the riders I love to watch and marvel at.

Anglo* commentators. You are not the world and certainly don't know all languages.

Loved those two commentators... I miss their voices and their humor. They were exceptional. They were the voices of the Tour de France

Who's Paul?

@@lambertlambert7076 Paul Sherwen -cycling commentator.

@@bonjoviae2926 Thanks.

@@2wheelsrbest327 ภภ

Even more exciting when you are French with the Pierre Rolland ride. What a stage ! It's not every Tour which has a great show like that.

Does it really make any difference?

@@robertcalderon5960 is that a serious question or were you just bored?

@@robertcalderon5960 ofc it does

@@robertcalderon5960 - yes, I immediately wanted to know the year.

he got dropped by a nobody frenchie in this video. what are you on about

And the fact that he was maxed out on EPO. Probably had double the normal amount of red blood cells.

💉💉💉

@@chriswhitehead6544 everyone in the race then and now is doping! Wake up!

@@Dayumhesgood Did you watched whole stage? I bet you didn't for sure..

I remember to cheer for Pierre but he was exclusively on Samu's wheel... Any way, Contador's double attack earlier that day was way sicker than the action on Alpe d'Huez. That move with Andy on his wheel was so badass.

Being on somebody's wheel more than half of the climb is now called brutal attack :P

what are you talking about man? he was a parasite, fair tactic, but not the most impressive or merit deserving one.

Brutal because after attacking early on in the climb, and earlier in the day, he was slowly dragged back in and spat out by the eventual 1st and 2nd placers. He rolled the dice and just missed out on glory. Chapeau Contador!

Rolland had so much potential.

Seriously who cares! I wanna see these dudes rip the bottom brackets off their bikes!

Having ridden up it three times on a heavy steel bike with food and two bottle of wine to spectate, I can vouch for it's toughness. Interestingly, it's nowhere near as hard as the Glandon jut over the mountain. They are all hard, though! :-)

Me too

I did it probably around the same time as you. I miss it now I'm back in England and it's cold a/f.

I walked up half of it (individual time trial '04) but riding it is one of my bucket list items. Good for you!

You (probably) weren’t on EPO though lol

i'd have trouble with an electronic bike mate LUL good on you

Yeah the good old good when they were full of PEDS

@@garycowie8648 Like Sky clearly still are?

@m g calm down mohamed you boring bastard

@m g you really are so boring fuck standing beside you at a party have to go watch paint dry now yanky wanky

@@vincentmazzola2887 Sky are no longer a team you fucking paranoid boring headcace

Sherwin RIP

​@@Requiredfields2 I did not know. I'm very sorry to hear that. I saw Paul at a cycling jamboree in Frejus on the Cote d'Azur in 1978, when I was on an exchange with a family there. He was riding for Fiat at the time and it was a real thrill to see an English rider on a big continental team. It was pretty exotic back then.

Yeah favorite Phil quote is when a rider quit the tour. He said" The race has no respect for reputation your only as good as now" how true.

Time NEVER goes fast, never goes slow - but always second by second, year by year.

一代战神

Fuglsang could win TDF with Froome out, as I can't see Thomas doing it again.

@@christrickett3291 dude just won Lombardia and liege bastogne liege this year.

So did I. Cycling is boring without him.

A bit over the to, but yeh.. he certainly was the classiest racer of the era.

Contador will always guarantee a great race. No holds barred

I still watch but it’s not the same sport, he was the last Mohican

I agree, it is so much different without him. A true legend of this sport.

The best amateurs are dong this climb about 15 minutes faster than that. Pretty good amateurs will aim for an hour.

Holy cow. Zoom zoom

this is thanks to Team Sky who have robotized the race. just watch Giro d Italia just gone - that was quite exciting without team Sky intefering, but nowhere near the blood transfusion and EPO "assist"

@@buffalotheory504 To be fair, the Giro with Sky last year was pretty damn exciting too and the Giro this year was shit for a week or so because course design is such a factor. Sky have given us some shit mountain stages, but Froome (especially in 2016) has given us some great moments.

Denning76 Exactly, although Sky is strong I still enjoy to watch it. There also other contenders such as Quintana (however he’s out form for a couple of seasons in the Tour), Nibali (he’s getting older), Dumoulin (he has a shit team, for some reason keeps losing time due to mechanical issues, crashes, etc. and is injured at the moment so if he’ll make it in form to the Tour is still the big question) and Thomas, but he’s from the same team. And when riders such as Kruiswijk have a form peak can also be very strong, for example his Giro in 2016, where he simply destroyed his competitors, he however crashed and lost the Giro well their where only 2 real stages left and his lead was over 2 minutes and he was in everything the strongest...

I agree should have been cotador full of PEDS

@m g oh im sorry did I touch a wee nerve there hurt your little feelings before you open your big fat mouth get your facts sorted out 1st ya fucking wee boring poofter

@@garycowie8648 Contador full of peds would have mantain, and probably increase the distance. He ran this tour 2011 when his case was already open (later he would be sanctioned) and at that time he was probably the cleanest runner you have seen in this video.

@@garycowie8648 yeah, and the others were full of nice hopes and dreams hahaha what a tool

@@juncearyoutube3336 do you not like getting called wee names that you get my comments deleted but it's OK for you toughen yourself up snowflake it harsh hard world out there

Hated that guy

It's always like this in France you know

I'm french and I'm fed up with this attitude a french wins a stage and He will win the Tour de France twice lol

They did the same with Romain Bardet, and Bardet got fed up with that and changed teams to race in the Giro and Vuelta.

A tiny proportion of fans run alongside and I agree they are wrong, but how can you know none of them are Dutch?

Chris Trickett Because they have a beer pump on every corner. What would you do? Run and be a twat or have a beer and cheer?

Yer kidding? I was there last year and they were pissed as farts. Running in the road, letting off smoke bombs. NO RESPECT. They’re not cyclists. They’re yobs.

Pierre Rolland has been 8nd of tour of France in 2012.

Well Contador certainly was on that.

Legend, yeah, right. More special steak, please.

@@teogo legend for sure 💯

Now you are exaggerating. Indurain rode for his team captain and frankly, it seems for far too long, won stages during that Grand Tours and was for sure one of the favourites when he rode on his own. Doping may have been a part of it, but frankly, it was more "surprising" how Indurain was dropped suddenly by Bjarne Riis when the doping made progress.

LeMond and Hinault may not have made the top 200 times but their joint effort up the Alp in 86 was THE singularly best finish on the mountain of all time, period.

@@trickinicki1456 The year Bjarne Riis ...that was epic drug use...as I understand Bjarne's blood was thick as sirup.He was mental in the amount of epo ...still ,he had to put in loads of hard training and hard work, but the amounts of dope during Pantani Riis years is insane...

1996 was the peak undoubtedly, after that they limited the H-value of the drivers no matter if tested positive or not to 50. Beyond that no one was allowed to ride anymore ... and - like a wonder - any GC contender in the following years had a value close to 50. Thats why even Lance Artmstrong's attack on Hautacam in 2000 was not nearly as strong as Riis' onslaught in 1996. That was the year when Indurain was dropped out. Sure, I am positive he used drugs in any way as well, but I rather consider him as a victim of the ongoing doping progress. I doubt without medicinical tuning, Riis would have been in the shape to even challenge Indurain.

Dude you talk about dope riders but you are using cocaine and you know it. Indurain rode for Delgado until 90s. Your point is the same as if you say Carapaz or Landa dropped 15 minutes and then they lead the Giro. Right, but they drop time working for Quintana or Valverde and then they ride for themselves, you newbie.

💉💉💉

I am not a pro by any means, but speaking from my experience, when you work this hard you’re concentrating on yourself and on giving everything you have, you just simply lock out everything- and everybody else

Come on u didn't see it

El pistola cazz.... Ahahahhahah

"El pistola"😂

2011

Pantani is a dead pirate

@@kalashnikovcortez1380 yes but still a pirate

@@FLMKane ........ and still the best ever 'pure' climber