David Duffield. Loved that man on commentary

no doubt about this is one of the greatest bike riders the world have ever seen. I get goosebumps just by seeing this!

I love this era. Exquisite bicycles.

Anyone notice that Lance Armstrong has exceptional luck on rainy days? This day was rainy, the day at Sestriere in 1999 was raining, I think also Hautacam 2000 was rainy, and, of course, the final time trial in 2003, the year that Ullrich nearly beat him in the tour: that day, Ullrich slipped and fell on the wet road, blowing away any chance of that happening. Interesting, no?

Good god has cycling coverage come a long long long way.

The kid hammers, plain and simple. He made a HUGE mark with his natural pro like animal strength from a real young age, so much that his presence always made a space of 2 riders.(imagine being in top form, punchin the hills in the big ring, and Lance comes around you like your on a stroll, and hes the motorcycle)

Yes! Finally, someone post this clip for us!! Thank you so much! I have never seen this race before, and I have always, always wanted to watch it.

Talking about doping, this race was much more about ability on the bike than just pure power...

On this race Armstrong wasn't on drugs. The USADA decission stripped him of the results obtained since 98 until 2010. Armstrong claims he began into doping back in the 95. So, in 93 he was clean.

Thx for uploading this, never saw this until now

That sharp downhill made for complete carnage during the early laps -- it became a complete wipeout of riders.

Beautiful!

Greatest victory celebration of all time

Thanks for posting!!! +++++

that makes me smile! Quite amazing

He was riding a Motorola Merckx.. Even when the bike said Caloi in the years after this, it was still a Merckx frame made in Beligium.

incredible commentary

His SOLE championship win. But his greatest accomplishment was beating cancer. Unfortunately it would be tainted with years to come...

165! Lance was so heavy back then.

i keep hearing and reading about how he lost so much weight after the cancer thing and how that helped him. Im 5'10" also and my race weight is 150lbs.

If he manages to win the tour de france this yr he will be a true legend! i doubt it though but with someone who won the wc only 21 yrs old ull never know.

its true he did lost a lot of weight. his muscle grew back differently. thats why he looks like less of a bulky rider now, compared to 1993. but over time he reached 165 again. some even say he weighed 174-5 back in 1993

The picture is a little rough but at 1:33 you can see the hotel we stayed at when we went to my nephew's wedding in Las Vegas in 2010.

Indurain, Chiapucci, Tchmil, Museeuw, Ludwig, Fondriest, Giovanetti, Lauritzen, and all the others of the chase group were no less doped than Armstrong. So what's the difference? Simple: Armstrong was stronger on the day. I doubt he had a better doping program since this is a subject in which he gained his knowledge from a well-known Italian sports scientist.

Epic.

That is thick Lance, pre cancer. Lots of power!

At the end Armstrong was one of the most damaged by doping. He was a talented rider, in a clean cycling environment he would have deliver good races.

"the Texan being chased down by the little punchie Italian" @ 5:50 ...............LOL HaHa !

I would ask: "How do you cheat?" Not because of foolery; but because of need. "Big Ups out the Saddle to you Champion".🚲

lance is a great road 'raider'

Lance got greedy, if he had just won once, then let someone else win and come back later for a couple more there would be much less suspicion.

@Drumshanbohustle That anecdote is from the Trophee Laigueglia

@fitnessfreaky Yeah I remember that, but it just seems that while some people flop in the rain (the rain is a psychological barrier for many- I myself hated racing in the rain, both as a runner and as a cyclist) Armstrong thrived and had some of his best performances. Others can withstand hot and humid conditions better than most.

Haha, i was there! i was 6 years old, wow thats a loooong time ago.

That one time when you cheered for Lance.....

why did you forgot to mention museeuw ! the commentator says his name about 10 times and he was the greatest classic champ in his era

Mr. 60% getting his ass handed to him.

Good win by armstrong back in his initial days as a pro. But, look at the course - classics style with some hills but mostly flat. Armstrong did very well on hilly courses but the high mountains were too hard, like many other classic riders find. However, for some reason (WITH THE HELP OF DRUGS?) he morphed into a mountain goat.

@sauceyf4: I love this commentator!

Francisco Conconi doped many of the Italians at this time. There was actually medical records of rider's hematocrits from the Conconi's Italian doping in the early 90s (almost all in the upper 50s. Normal hematocrit is like low 40s for a cyclist. This made it impossible to compete clean at this level of competition after about 1991. It still continues to this day actually, but in a more brutal manner because a lot of the effective drugs are experimental/ not banned/ not widely known.

god hes strong!

5'10'' 165 lbs. is not exactly a bulky body builder figure.... and he "became" somebody else because of cancer... he just didnt gain the weight back after recovery... i dont know whether or not he cheated, but your comment does not make any sense

@Drumshanbohustle how can you not stand him, you've never met him!

Do you also believe there are aliens on the moon and that cinderella really became a princess? Keep dreaming!

to fight the cancer, dopping is not necessary LANCE gained the great tour of the life!!!! i'am a big fan!!! GO LANCE WE LOVE YOU (PORTUGAL)!!!!!!!! sorry for ((excuse for the errors)) livestrong!!! =D=D=D=D

Wow! I can't believe how far ahead Armstrong was from everyone else.

at the time of this race I was in college and had no idea who he was. used a pic shot during this race as a magazine spread assignment. wish I kept that piece, now that I know who armstrong is....

Anyone who thinks Armstrong was clean - pre and post cancer - quite frankly, is naive. Follow the Ferrari trail, you will see. Listen to P. Steffen, too. But, he was a horse in a herd - during his time doping was simply the culture that existed.

That's a great description of Ferrari! :)

Great ride, a well deserved win. The followers could have caught him, but few wanted to commit. Chiappuchi is not afraid, but needed help. With three Italians in the chase, why could they not cooperate? They most likely would have caught LA. Were they afraid of Indurain and Musseuw? And why do commentators say LeMond won two WC? Does his Junior Worlds win not count?

I was really thrown off by your comment because people dope everyday at my office with coffee.

😢😢😢Anyone who has been convicted of doping and does not want to be persuaded to comment on why he has done doping should not be given further attention. Congratulations on the World Champion 1993 Olaf Ludwig from the former GDR Now FRG from Thuringia Gera 😂😂❤😅🚲🚲🤣👍😊

@arklat Well, he's talking about senior world championships.

winning world championship ahead of indurain, museeuw, zulle and chiapucchi at the age 21 or something without been doped ha? ooo yeah...

i saw a vid clip this week of him finishing a triathlon event and one of his children was at the finishing line with the finishing medal to hand to lance but he just blanked his own kid and walked straigh past!,

Oslo at its best!! What a weather! At this time cycling was not a very popular sport in Norway, as you can tell by the lack of a crowd along the last 5 km of the course. Home favourite Dag Otto Lauritzen led the race for a long time, and raised some norwegian eyebrows. Now cycling is picking up, with Thor Hushovd regularly winning stages in the TdF. Should we ever get the world championships again I think it would be a much better event. Note Bjarne Riis, TDF winner to be, is also in there.

Kewlios

Lance rode a rebadged Litespeed titanium frame that day it was not a Caloi, it was not a Merckx.

It's a Caloi, a brazilian bike to win a world championship!

@Rkeezy32 Not true that almost everyone who's finished in the tour top ten has been caught doping. LeMond won 3 tours clean. Hampsten & Mottet both managed 4th plus stage wins.

Indurain said that group chased him as hard as they possibly could - he simply couldn't believe how strong Lance was that day. Lemond wasn't there to see it first hand. I think this is one reason Lemond said in '93 that Armstrong would always be a one-day rider. Indurain wasn't as willing to sell him short on potential.

@drexelur1 Find out what 'golden boy' means. It's commonly used in the English language.

He was as good in a different way. He has always "that" good. And Ciapucchi, Museeuw and Indurain were in that chase group and couldn't catch him!

Not a single race was won cleanly since the beginning of cycling as a sport (refer to the testimonies of riders from 1910s)

That's not to say he doesn't have a lot of reason *to* like him, but yeah... also, I [and a lot of cycling fans] have an issue not with armstrong, but with some of his fans, who have this perception that he is The Greatest Cyclist Who Ever Lived. He's good, damn good, best *grand tour stage racer* of his era. But not The Best That Ever Was. I don't mean to diminish his accomplishment, but all I'm saying is people who are not Lance Fans are not simply "jealous" and only like LeMond for his name.

and they said he never rode against the best when he won his tours well these were the champs they were talking about and he beat them

I believe Litespeeds are made in Tennessee

@Drumshanbohustle Why are you making up sheeit?

@Drumshanbohustle haha. moreno argentin hated him because he mistook him for another rider once in a race and it pissed armstrong off. So armstrong essentially spat in his face and then beat him in a race moreno was favored in. armstrong wasnt very gracious as a young man, but a vicious champion he will always be.

Argentin did not even finish the 93 worlds, so it would of been tough for him to pull on the brakes for the finish.

i dnt but i also believe that unless you plan to change something why tarnish ones reputation even more then others already have.

En lugar de estar criticando al tour y sus corredores,debería entregar este premio a Indurain y así hacer lo mismo con Zulle,Ullrich,Beloki,Kloden y Basso,es afortunado porque siempre los lugares se le han dado a quien les pertenecen.da pena que de un país de leyes y respeto,halla salido un estafador como este

...and furthermore Lance hadn't been ravaged by cancer he probably had a vo2max in the mid 90's at this race

Lance was lucky. Of course he had the guts to go for it, but he wasnt the strongest. Most in the chasing pack was stronger than Lance. They just couldnt commit to catching him. It happens every now and then. Indurain could probably alone have caught him if he had used all his force, but that would mean carry his biggest rivals to victory. He didnt want to do that, nobody wanted to, so lance won. Same way underdog Rui Costa won in '13

Seriously now? One of Lance Armstrong's best friends is the legend him self in cycling. Yes, Eddy Merckx. His carreer is a lot more impressive then the one from Armstrong.

GO LANCE

"And why would anyone hate Lance Armstrong?" I'm saying there is some reason to. What I meant by "golden boy" was that he isn't some perfect, flawless god whom the Europeans just chose to despise out of spite. He's (less so these days, but that's a maturity that's fairly recent) always been a bit of an arrogant prick, and a lot of people don't like him not for of all the tours he won, but the way he won... like some people hate the Patriots because they didn't like the style they won by.

No, he wasn't as good in 1993 as he was in 1999-2005. In 1993-1995 he was a good one-day races rider, while he became a Tour de France contender after the cancer. If you think he was that good at 22, what do you think of Indurain surpassing him at the Bergerac time trial after only 16 kms during the 1994 TDF? He was a totally different type of rider before and after the cancer. Sorry for my bad english. I'm from Spain.

Lance is not a cheater. It's a cheap strategy of the French to blame Lance to make themselves feel better for losing year after year.

One of my favourite Lance Armstrong race. 1º Lance Armstrong....2º Miguel Indurain. Lance before cancer was a really great rider.

the announcer is so awesome. who is it?

and i ask my self why they put presure on this guy i mean even on 93 he was a great cyclist why cant he have won the seven Tours that he did without been called a cheater well this is 93 long way back....

16 years later he can win Tour. Amazing

No helmet? Crazy.

More like Lance Legstrong what an amazing athlete he is truly an inspiration and a champion

he weighs the same now.

riise is danish and never won the tdf since he doped it

Not true. I don't have a personal problem with Lance Armstrong, but I certainly think that it is not reasonable not to like the man. He has a great "PR Face", but there are moments where some rather... unfreindly... elements of his personality show up. That and he almost certainly doped in '99. I'm cool with that, since so did everyone else. But to say he's some kind of golden boy who the Europeans hate for no reason is rather naïve.

Yes, it would have been great if he also concentrated on those races too, but now we know why. It has come to light that almost all the top Tour de France pros were on drugs and Lance was clean and still had to compete against cheaters. He probably figured that without cheating he needs to specialize. Ulrich, Pantani, Veranque and the other top contenders were banned from the Tour to prove it. I don't hold that against Armstrong for specializing to avoid cheating.

If Armstrong was clean why the hell did he bother chasing down Simeoni in 2004? Clean or not, that was stupid move. He opened up a whole can of worms.

You are incorrect. The man was doped. Lance to Landis - read it, then try again. Thanks for playing though.

you are the one that is naive if you followed the ferrari trail you would find that ferrari was not involved with lance during any of the tour victories. besides armstrong is clean its been proven in over a hundred random tests.

His career is over, its never proved, so basically he never used.. its just nobody believe's in good cyclist nowadays.. always when a good or even an unknown rider does an incredible achievement dope is the answer, just come on people believe in cycling! its not all about dope, and still if you use you have to cycle it

Strip this doping boy of his title !

And take drugs.

The crew who resurfaced the course, days before the worlds didnt care about pro cyclists, or elite cycling! Big stupid mistake, they fell like they were turning on oil spills!

I think this is Lances greatest performance ever he beat Indurain who was called superman and is considered the best time trialist in history of cycling and Indurain couldn't time trial that gap down........

Lance's body is a very very good responder to drug therapy (particularily red cell jacking) and therefore dominated the 2nd EPO world Championships. Plus it was pouring rain and most of the favorites had crashed hard at some point during the race. Lance was certainly jacked on HGH, Insulin, Testosterone, Cortizone, anabolic steroids, amphetamines at that point too.

Lance beat the best riders of the era here . . as the second group includes Indurain, Chiapucci, Tchmil, Bjarne Riis, Olaf Ludwig, . . You can also see the larger upper body/torso he had then from his youthful triathlon days . . . . this is pre-cancer and pre-chemo . .

he cant win tour. contador rules