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The fact that when Greg Lemond, a legend in his own right, tried to expose doping in cycling. Was completely ostracized in the cycling community because of Lance. Truly shows how much influence he had in his prime.

I think a lot of people could have forgive him for the cheating but the way he tried to ruin peoples lives is what really makes him a monster.

I have won the Tour de France as many times as Lance Armstrong did.

Had Armstrong quit after the seventh tour win, no one would have found out his cheating ways.....But his hubris, arrogance and sense of invincibility brought him back one more time, and because of that, he paid the price...And rightly so.

The biggest problem wasn’t the doping. It’s what he did to silence the people who had the truth. He did all that knowing he was lying to the world the entire time, and destroyed peoples lives to protect his lies. That’s what separates guys like Lance and Alex Rodriguez from other athletes that used PEDs. I don’t feel sorry for what happened to him at all.

In the 'Lance' documentary Armstrong explains how he forged his birth certificate to compete as a 16 year old when he started out in triathlon. His rationale was - quote "Forge the certificate, compete illegally and beat everybody." Interesting how that seems to have set the tone for his future.

What he did to silence the people who threatened to reveal his doping was brutal. He destroyed lives.

He admitted in 2020 that it was his extensive use of human growth, hormone and testosterone among many other drugs that actually caused his cancer

Lance Armstrong didn't bring drugs into cycling they were there when he got there all the top cyclist used them and probably they all did. One of the riders who won 2nd place refused the trophy and said he was proud of getting second place. In other words Lance won them all fair and square

"You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants". "You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water". "For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants". All quotes by Jacques Anquetil Tour de France winner 1957, 61, 62, 63, 64

He probably would have been great without the doping, but we'll never know. IF he would have been a nicer guy and a better team leader his team might have closed ranks around him (as other teams did) and the story might be different. I think his behavior with his teammates really did him in.

I remember the peak of Lance mania in the early 2000s. It was wild. At least it got a bunch of people interested in cycling.

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I was definitely a Lance Armstrong fan. He always stated that he was the most tested man on the planet, which proves he was clean. I was heartbroken when he admitted everything about his doping.

This crap is rampant. When Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal for the '88 Olympics, the gold went to American Carl Lewis who later admitted to be doped, but nothing ever happened. Lewis has become a poster child for great sprinters and has said many times that they were all 'helped with chemistry'.

Man on drugs beat other men on drugs, and showed he's the best in the world over and over again.

He tested positive in 1998 or 1999, but the UCI decided to leave it at that.

Great videos amazing editing!

The moral of the story, or the tragedy was Armstrong turned a humbling and devastating experience of cancer at 25 into a weapon of revenge and malice (this was always in him) that winning at any cost was the devil's bargain. Sure he won 7 tours, but if he'd not turned to drugs and became that 1 day rider he would have (today) the admiration and respect of both the public and his peers, today he has nothing. A salutary lesson if their ever was one.

I was a competetive cyclist in my youth. I admired Armstrong for his achievements after fighting back from cancer. I bought his book. I celebrated every of his wins of the Tour de France. Then his doping scandal was revealed and that killed my interest in cycling for good. Sad, but true.

That ride through the field could get someone disqualified as he didn’t complete the entire course.

Greg LeMond rode CLEAN. My inspiration.

Dope content as usual

I hated him back in the Ullrich-Era and pity him today. His narcissism and arrogance ruined a lot.

ALL the best athletes dope. They just haven’t been caught yet.

Had he’d not made that unnecessary comeback in 2009-10 than I don’t think the forces that be that brought him down would have happened. But Lance’s own arrogance sadly sealed his stripping of the 7 wins. We all know other past winners took substances to enhance performance but Lance went one too many to let him get away with it. Greg Le Mond was unfairly cast as a resentful villain against Lance’s success but he now stands vindicated as he certainly never went down that route.

For those wondering what he's upto today, he's making shows about awful it is that trans athletes are effectively 'cheating' in womens sports and how awful it is to be cancelled for saying 'cheating' is happening.

You will never know if after being caught cheating, that there is contrition. The only way to subvert, and protect those not yet competing, is to punish the cheaters. They had their glory days by displacing other hard working individuals, let that be a lesson to the next person who is considering cheating. I have very little respect for Lance and can also see his great potential. Unfortunately for his fans and others, we were denied to know his true abilities because HE chose to cheat. He should be accountable if he was always wanting the accolades. Why this is confusing is beyond me except that I'm surrounded by people who want to cheat but can't. I have no other explanation for defenders of this man.

I competed in the same era as Armstrong & I NEVER EVER even thought about doping. There were many like me in those days & yet we knew we were competing against cheats. Imagine how it felt for us clean riders? It was sickening & sole destroying. Lance & other dopers had a choice, they chose wrong & so they'll always be cheats in the eyes of their competitors. It was them who made it an uneven playing field & made cycling the drug reputation it got. Us clean riders were cheated & so was the sport. For anyone thinking for a second everyone was doping back then or even now, you've no idea how wrong you are...& it hurts to the very core the respectful & principled clean riders, that you think so. Please consider such riders in your thoughts & blasting comments.

And he bought into Uber when it was starting up, I think he stuck in 200,000 bucks, that's a tidy little earner.... I knew pro riders back in the early 90's mostly MTB guys, who rode for a major US team, They used to openly laugh when they'd hear about Armstrong's latest victories and thundering denials, 91-92 they all told me he was full of prep, everyone knew. When I contradicted anyone is some of the new formed online chat groups, I had so many threats of violence against me, several said they could track where I lived and come and beat me, it was ridiculous... The other side of the coin is he did train hard, my French mate used to see him going up and down this one climb near his house near Argeles Gazost, part of his 7 hour training rides, even full of prep you have to train hard. Millar said you can't just have a injection and instant power, it still hurts like hell, but in your hell, there is no one left chasing you.... The man is a charlatan and he doesn't care, he made it, lost it and still made it... best if he's forgotten forever

So many people defending an absolutely horrible person and the worst cheater ever. First of all, not everyone was doping in that period. Secondly, winning because you have the best dope is still cheating.

I remember being annoyed that people were trying to bring him down with rumors of PED use - I wish I’d paid more attention and kept an open mind then and I wish more people would pay attention and keep open mind in 2023 to any public figure who is repeatedly accused of cheating/crimes

At about his 5th Tour de France win, I had an argument with my office mate -- a distance rider. "If Armstrong is not taking dope, I said, he is the greatest athlete in any sport of all time." After he won a couple more times, I knew he had to be cheating. Everyone knew by then. It was just a matter of time before it would be proven. He still has his defenders, even today. "Everyone was cheating back then." Uh, no. Armstrong destroyed the lives of so many riders and non-riders because they spoke the truth. LeMond for one.

He didn't lose everything. He made millions doing this that stays.

Quelle formidable tricheur. Fascinant de détermination. Acteur de la histoire du vélo. AMERICAIN, HUMAIN, INCROYABLE........

How many times do we have to rewind this? Would be nice if a narrator was used that could pronounce the last names.

Still a hero in my books to go from seriously ill with cancer to winning grueling cycle races in a short time is an amazing achievement.

People saying “Everyone else was doing it too” completely miss the point. If it wasn’t a big deal Lance was cheating, why did he ruin the reputations or threaten the livelihoods of anyone who tried to expose his cheating?

Tyler Hamilton’s book the secret race is very interesting and explains the whole system

Armstrong was doping all along even as far back as the early Triathlon days. He would never win at the TDF, he was poor at the Time Trials and he could not climb to save his life. He chose EPO for a reason and it was for the climbing stages. He was probably on EPO most of his cycling life and steroid supplements. His reaction to EPO was his downfall since some people react to EPO more than others. He would not be able to win 1 TDF without the EPO, even if had been blood doping ( which was confirmed) without the EPO he could not dominate the climbing. This is identical to 2022 and 2023 they are all doping, but this time in Hyperbaric chambers to increase their Hematocrit levels, this is why see all the dominance from the top riders not only on the TT, Flats but also on the climbings.

Lance Armstrong almost by himself made the entire cycling world oust cycling legend Greg LeMond with the amount of distancing and covering up he led to cover up his tracks. I get Lance was trying to salvage his career but man he completely ruined the credibility and likeliness of his idol.

Lance Armstrong is a hero…and nike cutting ties with lance was like hitler condemning doctor mengele for crimes against the humanity.

Those Yellow livestrong bands sold like hot cakes when he advertised them.

Im curious, what is the accent you chose for your auto-narrator? (i assume its auto-narration bc of the mispronounciation of HUGE brands like Nike and names of pepole like Hincapie)

Great vid!

I think that in his book he says he was told a the time it was 50/50, though later his doctor said in reality it was 3%?

Synonymous (I would've never have gotten even close to spelling that correctly. High praise for autospell today yo!

Did he cheat more than others did, at the time, or was he just better at it?

It was Lance's bitter attacks on those that accused him of doping that saw him despised by many in the the cycling fraternity, not that he doped per say. He viciously threatened to drag these people (who were telling the truth) off to court, when everyone knew he was a doper. He is no hero to me.

I felt betrayed when he admitted using EPO.... But when I overlook that, I remembered how inspiring was his Cinderella story, well... I still miss the late 90's to early 2000's, it was an exceptional time to be a cyclist. Now with the new era of Tadej Pogačar, I'm here thinking, please, don't be another Lance to us.

You glossed over a lot of information in this "expose". He strong armed innocent people into being quiet.

Lance Armstrong is the engineer in team fortress 2

do big retrospectives on famous races with doped riders like cycling highlights used to do but for some reason ceased

They banned Lance Armstrong for life but Lance and his team at The Move still have the best coverage and play by play of bike racing to date.

He helped Jan Ullrich in his worst days of addiction and they became best friends! From hero to zero back to hero again!

I was racing even before Lance. I didn’t care for LeMond and Armstrong because it seemed to me they ruined the traditional European racing. By spending millions and millions to win one race and almost forgetting about the rest of them. Almost like Dale Earnhardt race in the Daytona winning and then taking the rest of the season off.

He won the Tour 7 times against 2nd and 3rd place winners who were all, also, busted for doping at one time or other. He didn't cheat without the support of the UCI. Unbelievable athlete who took advantage of every training technique used by all of the teams.

can you do a video on every rider that cheated between 1999 and 2012? and not just the winners ;p

I remember the cameraman making the eraser gesture. Took a long time to happen…

Song at 3:34?

USPS, Trek, Nike and Oakley made so much money and still benefit to this day from Lance.

i read his book watched him racing then he screwed me and heaps of others ...Cadel won without cheating and was beaten by cheats as well.

There's no controversy. He's an acknowledged doper, a cheat. As long as there is 1 single clean rider in a race, and there are ALWAYS clean riders, all of the dopers are cheats. They might just as well have had motors on their bikes. No race they ever won means a thing. Simple as that. That's the trouble with cheating. It turns the cheater forever into a joke.

I know its messed up he doped but honestly 99% of people couldnt do what he did on dope or not on dope what he did was insane.

Let’s face it. He was the best EPO taker evar. We should celebrate that 🎉

Lance attacked Greg Lemond and had Trek drop Lemond bikes. At the time I started believing that Greg was actually jealous. Until the VO2 max was pointed out, Lance was nothing close to Hinault's and Lemond's VO2 max. Until now I refuse to buy Trek bikes because of how they treated Lemond. I do agree with Lance though, that as a doper he did beat other dopers, Riis, Ulrich, Pantani, and so on.... So in a way, the playing field was even. Unlike Indurain, who was never a GC rider, suddenly started beating Fignon and Lemond. I hate Indurain more than Lance. And as big of an ass Lance is, I do have his autographed next to Lemond's and Hinault's on my wall.

Try winning a grand tour clean. Even finishing one is brutal for the body. Doping gives you a ticket to possibly win but it's not a guarantee. Lance still worked hard for those wins and deserves his titles. The sport will never be clean. It's just the reality of it.

I look back at the older previews and I still today love the the episode The look with Ian and Lance and then when Lance fell off and it lands Ian fell off the bike and Lentz waited for him he was a super person but it the doping is just I was so disappointed and we every time he wanted tour we donated to the foundation I can't believe all this it's just well I try not to think about it what's done is in the past and look what we have today I'm good writers they're young and I was hoping Peter might win the Tour but he had a kind of a rough time in the the Alps this past week but let's just forget the past have our heroes and go on with the future that's what it's all about

¨He never won the tour... he was doped and wouldve been disqualified if they knew...

The sad truth is everyone in the background trying to take those who are successful down have more skeletons in their closet than anyone else. Sadly just the way society is. I wish the best for Lance and he still has the balls to be successful despite the witch hunt.

My wonderful Father-in-law had Cancer, Lances comeback was a beacon of hope to him and he wasn’t even a rider. When Lance confessed it cut my Father-in -laws hopes down as he was a man of honour and integrity, he assumed Lance was too. For many, Lances actions cost them the will to live, to hope for a miracle or to simply hang on for another day. Lance had some pedigree for sure, but his ‘second is the first loser’ mantra is hollow, self centred, and Narcisistic, his teams doping and lies for 7 tours showed just how deep this Narcissism ran. May he enjoy his 50 million, yet I wonder if he realises that money will never buy him a peaceful heart.

Great lens

People forget the mechanical dominance of his team. Very few flats, chain issues over the years.

Allegations? It's fact. Not only was it proven, he's admitted doing so.

He almost killed this sport and a generation of riders

When Lance was there the tour was sooooo exciting... he was simply the best... 7 years straight,.. everyone else doping...and 7 years straight.. he could talk and walk.. he could do everything...absolutely amazing....

Guy is still famous all over the world and sits back enjoying a 50 million + fortune. Zero..don't know bout dat !

It reminds me about Novak Djokovic and Raphael Nadal. But they got away with it.

As sad and shameful as his story is, the reality is that he made Trek Bicycles what it is today. The other sponsorships like Nike and Oakley were already big players but Trek was a different story....

He should have never admitted to it. Everyone else was doing it too. No one will be able to come near what he did with or without steroids.

The funny part is that in the years Lance competed, the majority of the riders were doping as well. Lance was the better doper. Still, he had to train like a mad man to achieve the level he achieved.

With men competing as women today, Lance should be honored back as the best cyclist ever.

gee, after only he was stripped of his wins, why did the UCI not award them to other riders, what was in other lab tests? Your criticism lacks perspective.

That not a single rider has ever come forward and asked for one of his jerseys tells you all you need to know about the era. Armstrong was/is the greatest Tour rider ever, fact.

So sad about the loss of beloki's carreer 6:30

Should have been titled "Rise, fall and resurrection" Lance has come a long way since his admission on Oprah. Lance is human, as we all are, and thus deserving of grace. Go Lance, go ♥️🙏🏽

Btw, the big shoemaker who supported Lance is pronounced Nikey 🙂

sports "achievements" aside, lance's character was plainly and simply rotten to the core; a thug and a bully to the max.

Lance even dumped his girlfriend (Sheryl Crow) after she got breast cancer. Among all his other despicable traits, he is even heartless towards the women in his life!

I knew that Lance, like most pro athletes used PEDs. They help with stamina, recovery, body building, hemoglobin production. I appreciate what Lance has done in inspiring cancer patients, in their recovery. Speaking from,experience, Lance inspired me to thrive through the adversity pain, sorrow and loss with my own cancer, and losing others to cancer.

The fact that he bullied teammates and retired cyclists. Filed lawsuits and cheats at the same time. Shows his character. Lance is the definition of a cheater and doper. What a legend....one of a kind. Definitely a top caliber douchebag.

Should have various versions of sports categories as no otherside play drugs ok etc

Everyone was wearing his "Livestrong" shirts lol

You can't cheat against brain, lung, and testicular cancer. He gave hope and inspiration to many cancer victims. People are so fickle, most cyclists were doping during that time.

The worst of Lance is that he ruined the lives of innocents that spoke against him. Not a hero.

I was young and heard about us postal team, 😂 the mail was always on time

I am going to repeat one of his own words: I wasn't running against the sisters of charity

ランスはオプラ・ウィンフリーの番組に出られたし後悔はしていないと思う。

What he did to Greg LeMond alone…he is a selfish sick individual