The Untold Truth: How Lance Armstrong SAVED The Tour de France!

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I watch cycling because of Lance Armstrong. I don’t have any animosity towards him. Year after year, every cyclist in those pelaton’s were on an even playing field, together, at the same time. No one would have been able to keep up with Armstrong unless they were also doped. Doesn’t Armstrong have the natural physical ability to excel above the others? Yes

lesliepropheter
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Thanks for your video i think it is about time people remember the good part of the Amstrong area. Not only did he get so many people into riding bikes but during his area he was responsible to many advancements in cycling that got us to where we are now. Things like aero skinsuits higher cadence etc he started the area of scientific riding

amramweismann
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Good points. Lance's influence, in all senses, cannot be underestimated. As a young amateur & Olympic hopeful, he excelled. As a cycling pro, he also excelled. Being thrust, as it were, into the epoch of severe doping in the sport of cycling, he excelled once again. He competed in his domain, determined always to rise to the top. I don't believe Lance Armstrong is any more or any less guilty of doping than any of his colleagues. All of them, the bunch, took the plunge & bit the bullet for one reason only--to cruise thru & taste the glory of maillot jaune, rose, vert, etc.
Modern cycling is intrinsically tied up with performance enhancing substances. Call them drugs, dope or enhancers, the world of chemically induced performance enhancers is upon us.
Who is 100 % clean in the peleton? In their determination to take advantage of every chemical advantage, who is truly innocent? It's a messy world, if you look at it microscopically. Voila mon perspective...

alannohlgren
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I admired Lance when he appeared and his story was fantastic cancer recovery and yes he probably (as the video says) did save the cycling world by getting the business side of it going as we see today and I am grateful for that without Lance the cycling world might not have evolved to what is today, but why did he have to be such a nasty human being?

HsN-fiyp
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When I started racing in 1989 only the richest yuppies had $2K bikes. $1200 was more than enough. My first good bike was less than $500.

starkparker
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While he definitely helped with the spread of cycling in America and beyond, after watching his documentary on Netflix, I think he just needs to move into a different arena. His type A personality was extreme and kinda scary but helped him work harder. Very few people could reel him in, and there was very little self reflection/empathy from him in that time. He’d burn any bridge to win. What really makes the situation dark for me is his fight against cancer and subsequent advocacy for cancer treatment and knowledge was interwoven with his claims of being honest. He also was adamant he was clean even as the sport was setting no PEDs as the standard. He lied for years and even under oath with the warning of perjury.
The one honest thing that resonated from the doc was that he needed the type of response (and lawsuits) he got for him to realize his role and how people saw him. Any attempts to maintain his “brand” or name in current discussion is like tolerating a bully/jerk because they exhibit some qualities we as humans see as important to survival. For me, modeling the traits of Armstrong at that extreme would make me question my integrity. The video essay is an interesting take, and has some points, but I definitely won’t be subscribing to any of his future projects or attempt to view him at the same level as other cyclists.

talljason
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If anything, Lance helped to enhance the USE of drugs in the sport. He also helped enhance the creation, sophistication, administration, and surrounding corruption of drugs in cycling! << He proved that with enough power and organized care, you can DO IT! Others have followed. And I believe there are a handful in this 2024 TDF!

savagepro
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Richard Virenque ... what a hero!.... "You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way."

thomasdobson
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What crap. As a research methodologist doping does not equal the field. He had a very poor hematocrit so he could dope more than others. Before he doped he was consistently 16 minutes slower on maintain stages!!!! He stole 100 million dollars from others who deserved the money. He was the biggest criminal. He ruined the business of lemons and others. Disgusting

evanshaw
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Lance could cure cancer worldwide, and still some people would choose to focus on his doping in cycling. We are talking about a man that is willing to do whatever it takes to win. Thats the same mentality needed to solve some of the world's problems.

paulwhite
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NGL every sport has a similar athlete, it's up to the community and players and sponsors whether they decide to find out the best route for the sport to make amends or not and make sure future generations of athletes don't fall for the same pitfalls.

JLKelly
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I wasn't around during that era but one notorious fact is how his doping came out. It wasn't through the Oprah interview. It was through back-log testing of samples that caught him in which he was notified about and did the infamous Oprah interview to get ahead of the UCI announcement. Plus, the fact that doping was super well known through Landis' failed attempt.

Other than that, yep I can attest to the heavy amount of marketing and advertising it brought, my dad had tons of those Livestrong bands.

Xhadp
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He is still one of greatest. What ever. Even doped can’t win Tour 7 times in a row just becouse of dopping. They ALL doped in that time in peloton. They can’t cancel his wins in our heads.

oxber
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Well said and complete. I’m happy you put this out. The true fan knows this and his story but we hope someday the public at large will see it too.

AeroX-cm
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He was the greatest CHEAT ever. And we have not even got to biggest bully, or biggest A-hole yet.

driver
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I think the cleanest tdf year in modern cycling was the year Cadel Evans won. Thoughts?

daveyyc
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My love of cycling started with Lance Armstrong, he will always be the greatest for me!

Livitt
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His training was pretty full on as well . Some of the TdF Winter recon rides were legendary. If everyone had ridden clean I think he would of won just the same. I guess back then there was a lot of inside guessing what the other teams were up to and they made judgement calls based on that for better or worse.

wheeler
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Many thanks, for shedding a better light and the truth of what Lance did for cycling. PEDs or not he is still our champion.

francishill
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Thank you for this great video showing a different a different chapter to the Lance story. It is so true but so sad at the same time I think I could forgive Lance being a cheat if he had been a nice man to his staff and other people then but his building and harassing attitude is to me worse than his doping! As one said everyone is on something in all sports otherwise sports would still be on cave men stage! My

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