1999 Tour de France

1999 edition of Tour de France

[@gasolinewine801]

I’m just glad they were all racing clean. I would be heart broken to find out they were doping.

[@Tazangamoz]

😂.... I really hope you were being sarcastic.

[@Gaggerlotion]

Why do you care?

[@Trey_Johnson11]

Dope or no dope, it’s still great racing and fun to watch. I personally couldn’t care less what these guys were taking.

[@jonsinkkonen9393]

Like Nate Diaz said,they all everyone on peds. Applies to most sports,more extreme more peds you need.

[@markblanch2905]

😅👍😅

[@youarepredictable]

Man this takes me back. I was a cycling enthusiast and amateur racer(mountainbike and biathalons/triathalons) who did a ton of riding in the early/mid 90's and followed the sport quite a bit. I remember tuning in to watch every summer. I watched plenty of the tour before and after Lance was running things, but that time was truly exciting. I'd watch every weekend during the day and thankfully CBS or OLN or whoever was airing it would do sort of condensed "replays" at night that I'd tune in for for the first couple of his wins. By 2001, we had cable with DVR so I could record the entire stages. Nothing beats Phil LIgget and Paul Sherwen and Bob Roll on color commentary all those years.

[@joeblack7469]

If this isn’t an example of why we should just let them all dope I don’t know what is. Thank you for putting the edit together.

[@fanda6122]

ignorant comment it is hardly an even playing field and the teams with the biggest budgets dope the best. USPS and lance used influence to get the UCI to overlook positive testosterone results and bullied and snitched all while being dirty themselves. they could delay a car with EPO in the truck so that a rival didnt have the dose when they needed to. cyclists became more science experiment than athlete and it ruined the sport. even nowadays the nutrition is a secret and top riders take mystery recovery drinks and vitamin tablets. i am of the opinion it will never stop but the UCI needs to make sure the sport has credibility.

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

2:02:14 Rocky Balboa style

[@g_y.rtz420]

nope no thank you only simpletons think like this. It's not about who the best at cycling is or even who the best at doping is, its whos the best at getting away with it is. Armstrong was a politician, he's well connected and knew insider information not only about the best drugs and best physician but also ho tests are going to be conducted. He's also very adept and flexible, every year he changes his strategy from employing "motoman" to deliver epo to avoid busts, to blood transfusions the following year, to microdoping the next. It's not even a competition when its just information gathering and getting creative with not getting caught. And I dont even have to mention the harassment and power tripping. It may be fun for you folks to delude yourselves into thinking its a level playing field but sorry, Id rather smoke weed if i want to fool myself.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

But if we have two groups free doping group and so called tested athletes! Real Shocker is that these so call tested clean athletes would do as good results as doping Stars! If we have two groups so we will hear from Norway Sweden Australia Canada their White clean athletes will beat Lance Armstrong easily! The truth is No-one clean athletes will beat Lance Armstrong! Clean would lose 3-4 minutes 60 minutes time trial to Armstrong!

[@maddb3457]

​@@g_y.rtz420This is just professional sports. If you have the most naturally talented rider, but they don't train properly or get the nutrition, they will lose too. What is acceptable and what is not? The line is arbitrary.

[@jonathondodge9070]

Fun to rewatch all these years later. This was the first tour that I ever watched and it was magical then. Obviously overshadowed now. Classic Cycling, or whomever did the editing did a great job editing the tour down to this compilation. Thanks for the nostalgic afternoon while I turn wrenches at my own bike shop.

[@cbx750frider]

have a look at the 86 tour. lemond and hinault....excellent

[@IncorrigibleBigotry]

Well said, dude. I could watch content like this all day long.

[@personaljesus000]

58:10, give a man some chalk and some clean pavement and they all draw the same thing.

[@markblanch2905]

😅😅😅🙂

[@petef15]

'The same thought was going through my mind there, Paul'

[@dengamleidiot]

Now a day, a team is hired to re-draw the pensles into something else less offensive

[@durianriders]

epic! Not as fast as today though. If a poor sport like cycling has a juice problem imagine what tennis, NBA, NFL etc are on!

[@shane-irish]

Was way faster back then most on drugs lol its a bit cleaner today

[@lordnosebergshekelmasterde6025]

@@shane-irish It's not cleaner at all today. The cyclists are just more careful about things.

[@ynotnilknarf39]

Protected sports (because money talks) are tennis, football/soccer, golf, NFL/gridiron, rugby union, and of course track and field, particularly if there's a big name. Drugs scandals cost money so there's a lot of protection/back scratching to keep a certain amount of testing to be kept QT or even have limited testing/advanced warnings.

[@mikewalsh6168]

@@shane-irish Dream on mate. 2020 winner was on something in that time trial

[@shane-irish]

@@lordnosebergshekelmasterde6025 na its cleaner

[@davidorasanin3800]

Thx so much for this upload, it is just fenomenal. I am soo happy right now, watching this. 😁. You made my day.. 👍👍👍

[@classiccycling48592]

My pleasure 😊

[@alechull4300]

What a spectacle, the race was incredible, Phil/Paul are legends

[@peterlucey8282]

Paul passed away a couple of years ago

[@RogueCylon]

RIP Paul Sherwen.

[@edhu6p215]

Thanks for the video. I really enjoy the documentary style highlights and Phil leggets voice is wonderful. Even though controversy always surrounds TdF, the country and its people are a joy to see and learn.

[@rangersmith4652]

The way cycling fans continued to turn out in 1998 and beyond even with the highly publicized doping scandals in play demonstrates that, by and large, cycling fans DO NOT CARE about doping. Pro cycling exists because the fans want to see it, so whom do the witch hunts actually serve?

[@galenkehler]

I didn't follow road racing until about 2005, looking back at these races now that I have the context of watching and racing myself, these performances are ridiculous. Amazing history.

[@landonlusk9839]

Everyone was doping

[@dennisjames3711]

there was a lot going on in cycling then. Real celebrities. Plus EPO and very high level. Now is childish ... Today's cycling looks funny riders do it for money etc.

[@flavioposti6604]

@@dennisjames3711 sss

[@keirfarnum6811]

I used to race mountain bikes in Alaska in the early 90s and I was pretty damn strong (and was getting faster since I had only been racing for 4 years before I got sick with ME/CFS in 93; I think I would have continued to develop over the next 4 years had I not gotten sick), and the idea of averaging 32 mph for 8 minutes is just extraordinary; drugs or not.

[@keirfarnum6811]

@@dennisjames3711 Why do you say today’s cycling looks funny?

[@JoanOH]

Thanks for all your great videos. I'm an avid cycling enthusiast and love watching the races from the past.

[@classiccycling48592]

Thanks Joan, I really appreciate it.

[@jeffholder1156]

I decided to rewatch the Tours from 1986 forward. Today is 1999. It is interesting the feelings that come up knowing the truth.😢

[@cartermoth6447]

"And the speed of these riders on the climb... unbelievable". Indeed, unbelievable as in literally not believable. Fun spectacle though. But the TdF 1999 needed peak doped Pantani to take the fight to Armstrong.

[@wraith8323]

TBH with cycling, bodybuilding, baseball you name it, I would be totally OK with a clean competition, then the sideshow of folks on PEDS. Unfortunately it's a game of whose deceit is best, and competing clean at the highest level seems near impossible

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

1:32:39 woah 1:44:55 ...wtf on earth has happened !? 2:37:03 woah

[@brianmcg321]

I've watch these in VHS hundreds of times. These were so much better than any coverage we ever got in the states at the time.

[@christopher5585]

Guess you weren't around to watch CBS Tour de France coverage 1983-1988.

[@BroadsideBob]

“I can remember what my wife looks like.”🤣

[@starkparker16]

Great video. Thanks for posting

[@classiccycling48592]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@michaelvitiello9960]

I miss these days so much.

[@felroberto]

After the scandal of Festina Team in 1998 it is very disappointing that the Tour organisers did not radically upgrade doping controls in 1999. They knew most of top contenders had any reason to use drugs including Armstrong but Tour de France is principally a bussiness and money comes first 😪

[@bucknaked6674]

They did radically improve doping controls, they introduced the 50% haematocrit rule which led to the finish of pantani's career. There was no way of testing for growth hormone or epo or transfusions back then. There was one for testosterone but it could be gotten around and although they've improved it, hence Floyd Landis was caught, it still can be worked around. The same drugs and methods are still being used today, just smaller dosages more regularly so they don't trigger the passport. The unknown is what drugs have been developed since that are also being used, most likely aicar at small dosages at the very least.

[@elypeachy3296]

@@bucknaked6674 Listen to what Travis Tygart had to say about that on podcast "Travis Tygart Is Coming for Cheaters - Just Ask Lance Armstrong (People I (Mostly) Admire Ep. 33)" @28:30 mark

[@keirfarnum6811]

@@bucknaked6674 I raced mountain bike in Alaska in the early 90s and I couldn’t even imagine using such drugs. I would quit before doing that.

[@cartermoth6447]

The problem isn't the riders, it's the dope controls. Every Tour winner since year zero was on some sort of medication/performance enhancer. It's just the nature of the sport. Armstrong did what everyone else did & still does (lol @ Pogacar). Dope controls were introduced by ignorant morons who understand nothing about cycling & since then, it's gotten worse & worse. Riders now can't even take a cortisone injection for a sore knee. It's absurd. The public wants Tour champions who attack, who have panache, stages with excitement & great memories... but they sh*t themselves with anguish & self righteousness when they hear the riders are on medication. This problem was initially caused by the introduction of dope controls in 1966. Before that, no one asked questions or shat all over the athletes.

[@sukhmaidickoff]

@@cartermoth6447 So basically it doesn´t bother you the slightest that for many years the person / the team with the best doctors and the best drug-company behind them won the race?

[@alfredwilson7276]

Oh well, this is like watching the movie Titanic. Was entertaining nevertheless but we all know the outcome going in.

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

2:13:38🍔

[@shane-irish]

Remember waking up watching the mountain stadges and the epo everywhere

[@aliverbirduponmychest3055]

I have been watching the TDF since the mid 1980's, it was and still is the highlight of my year. Phil's, Paul's and Gary's commentary is sorely missed. The Lance Armstrong story was such feel good story, a miracle. Everyone knew they were all doping, it was almost priced into any cycling enthusiasts hero worship of the elite riders fans. I doubt the UCI, TDF or WADA would have made such an example of Armstrong only for his abhorrent behaviour towards towards journalists like Walsh, other riders like Hamilton and Landis, or the things he said and did towards Frankie Andreau's wife and the teams masseuse. What destroyed any respect I had for him as a human being was the shocking attack on one of the sports GOAT Greg LeMond. We all know now they were all doping with steroids and EPO, what is the biggest mystery is how he managed to provide completely clean doping tests? An even bigger mystery is how the current generation manage to crush all records when they are all riding clean, now that is a head scratcher!!!

[@carnebie]

It is wild going back and watching old tours and realizing NO ONE wore helmets. Such an obvious thing now, but was just not the norm then.

[@SampoSaarela]

Yep, it is also wild knowing that every one of them was doped up to the eye balls. At least they wear helmets nowadays.

[@xyphenius9942]

If someone could timestamp this with highlights I would forever be indebted to you 🙏

[@geoffaldwinckle1096]

The Armstrong interviews are hilarious.

[@joespumoni2316]

Dope video

[@pantanifan]

Great! Can you post please other 90' Tour de France? Thanks!

[@kickinit333]

I would wake-up at 3am to watch the stages. We all know the truth now but at the time, it was amazing to watch.

[@rafaelrazon9738]

TDF 1999-2005 - Legendary and The Best!

[@inthedarkwoods2022]

The best doper...

[@rochellestanley9532]

Absolutely 💯

[@gregcueva8631]

1:58:31 Hmmm... Yes, he's not taking drugs.

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

The Aluminium and Carbon era, among over "things".

[@lorenzogumier7646]

Lance brought to a new level a system that already existed and that was thriving. A super athlete, a bright mind and an entrepreneur, Lance did what all the rest wish they could. He got all the shame simply because he was the most successful, not the most dishonest

[@gazzawhite]

That's not the only only reason he got shamed.

[@rochellestanley9532]

Loved the bikes of USPS in this tour 🥇🇺🇸

[@johnnydallas9212]

TV Gold Phil & Paul ( 1999 great tour )

[@pranavkhanna8814]

There are two versions of commentary for this stage

[@countdown.moments]

The lies remain the same... This year edition will look a lot like this tour.

[@gasken2182]

When asked in interview if he’d do it all again, Lance always says a definite yes. LA career earnings $125m. Fine & lawsuits for doping, $16.5m. So, not surprised he’d do it all again lol

[@CaptXireland]

Funny how we had the fastest TDF this year and ppl actually believe that it's clean

[@Qwerty-fy6fx]

I actually don't know. Maybe it's because of our tech too? I've read that riders were using 9 speed in that year and TdF 2022 we're on 12 speed electronic groupsets. We've made the wheel rounder, faster tyres, better bearings, lighter bikes, better understanding of aerodynamics, nutrition, bike fit, and many more. But we can't be sure because maybe we got better at hiding doping

[@muhammadfarhan581]

@@Qwerty-fy6fx i watched the movie "the armstrong lie". 98 tdf was a pr nightmare when festina team (one of famous pro tour team) caught red handed. The organizers wanted 99 to be the slowest tdf ever. But instead, we got armstrong breaking records. The reason why most ppl believe (many fans and media did question it) but most ppl believe bcos they all too invested in the romantic story of cancer survivor doing the impossible, and uci ride him as he is a cash cow, kinda like dana white sucking up mcgregor. Armstrong claim that uci did protect him those 7 years

[@goodoleme747]

@@Qwerty-fy6fx the shelf life on some of these drugs nowadays is short.

[@TesterAnimal1]

@@Qwerty-fy6fxNaïve.

[@joshiek7839]

@Newtube_Channelhow do you know it’s not true. All teams spend more on doctors now than US Postal did.

[@ThrowINTS]

“Our roided-up guy beat YOUR roided-up guy.” - Bill Burr Ha ha ha. 😂

[@phililpb]

then all the roided up guys die before 50 and every kid trying the sport is also roided up and suffer serious side effects. not so funny

[@Milkywayboy]

@@phililpbadults can choose to do what they want! Quit trying to control everyone! Only a few died BTW Quit spreading BS

[@adrianj78]

7:58 the first Armstrong lie? He is nervous and is worried that Imlach is suggesting his performance is drug assisted, so he lies, “I don't know the times...,” - rubbish!! We know that USP were into knowing all the details about everything, he even says he knew what times his rivals had!

[@emeraldcitycs6662]

Good catch.

[@nealm6764]

How do you know Lance is lying? When you see his lips moving, he is lying.

[@IronHorsey3]

The Miracle of EPO. US Postal showed best dosing. 😅

[@willsprint4beer818]

I could care less about the scandals. Most everyone winning in that era was doping. It takes major skill(and luck) just to stay out of catastrophic crashes. Lance’s reign was probably the greatest achievement in sports.

[@laszlozoltan5021]

sports or fraud? neither.

[@topfell8277]

They all doped diff forms

[@jsquire5pa]

You couldn’t care less

[@micheledesantis443]

Che era bello vincere facile, senza parole......

[@colinstewart7123]

The more competitive an environment, the more logical a cheating strategy becomes. This principle explains all sorts of phenomena. From doping in sports to sharp practice on Wall St. 👹

[@p.l.diablo9864]

The problem is choice. It's what shows your character and ethics.

[@Theytfguhyre]

The only time in our lifetime that Americans will ever watch the "Tour". Lance was the MAN!!!!

[@niceguy1774]

None accidentally stayed tuned-in for Floyd?

[@kampango789]

The first and best pharmaceutical year in 1999

[@gregcueva8631]

1998 had a lot more EPO I promise you.

[@itsfrankmooneythedrummerwi2988]

Learn your cycling history before you make idiotic statements drugs in 99 had been on the tour at least since 89

[@danjo1967]

@@itsfrankmooneythedrummerwi2988 .... its always been there in some form depending on the era

[@IronHorsey3]

@@danjo1967 - sure, but EPO holds the gold medal

[@Milkywayboy]

The first😂😂

[@oldtwinsna8347]

"It's the Lance Armstrong style of pedaling that allows him to win races, nothing more" - Paul

[@phililpb]

Well it helped

[@rochellestanley9532]

Simply loved cycling in these days

[@christiankeim]

Future shock doesn't make sense to me. We don't absorb impact up and down, redshift I feel kinda figured it out. BMC is going to be adapting them into their builds following season

[@julesvanels6116]

That he used dope for so long and not been caught. I think how many kickbacks have been payed. To also the president of UCI Hein Verbruggen

[@jerompatterson7223]

Lance is still the GOAT

[@MeesterJ]

Really miss these long time trials. They were insanely impressive! And that way its not always the strongest climber to win the Tour

[@ivantackes8580]

They tested Armstrong and he was clean and got away with it into a year minute to it cycling was more exciting back then than it is now

[@sukhmaidickoff]

No. Just no. I know your comment is 2 years old now - but you just have to watch TdF of 2022 and you will know that your comment didn´t age well

[@riquelmeone]

So, Pavel Tonkov trained hard for that occasion and came with a cap to the prologue?

[@billrose2202]

They should make them smoke weed and drink beer. That's good dope there haha

[@abone2pick]

Back in the 60s they actually did just that

[@TheRainmanBachelor]

The words of journalist David Walsh from his convo with Armstrong rings true. “I felt at that point that everything he was telling me was a lie.”

[@TheRainmanBachelor]

@@kindregardless someone with morals

[@lpr5269]

It's kind of stupid to set up the rules to force people to lie and then complain about them lying. What was he supposed to do? Say "Everyone uses PED's including me. Anybody who is serious about winning." Then what? Career over.

[@Milkywayboy]

@@lpr5269yup he showed up Most of them were doing it So he started too! What was he supposed to do😂 Admit it😂

[@lennycottingham]

Even the Red Devil was on dope

[@SUBTUBESCENT]

wish there was a version without the dramatic sound bed

[@squeakyproductions]

I miss Phil Liggett's commentary, both him and David Duffield.

[@mazpr2025]

You mean Paul!

[@fabiotabollini5431]

I was at this TDF! 🎉

[@Ryz414]

The first one Armstrong won. Such a shame how dope just is common place in the Pro Pelton.

[@spanishlefty]

5:41 "What a comeback this could be". And it was.

[@timotune]

Best times/era in cycling 🥰🥰🥰

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

14:11🚀

[@marccarter1350]

This was awful late-night coverage we had in the UK in the late 1999's. It was awful then, it's even worse now!

[@nealm6764]

I totally agree.

[@roadracer1584]

I love EPO!

[@dakotamiller6274]

how much fun the TdF was back and what a poor event it is today. Sad; just sad, where we have come to.

[@EagleLogic]

This tour was fucking great

[@mauricioluisvega8342]

I remember when I saw the racce. aaaaaaaaah,,,,StrongFail!...

[@Kat-zj5kd]

Lance armstrong was tour de france in my mind. I think they were too harsh with hom and scapegoated him for whatever doping - that almost all of them do.. he is fabulous

[@ShimmyD-u7g]

If he was just quiet, and if he didn't make his comeback, everyone would have not cared. All of them were dopers, Indurain was riding with tons of dopers, no way he wasn't doing it either.

[@pete2448]

Lance is the biggest jackass in cycling history. I've seen him race a few times when he was about 20-years old and I knew guys in the peloton, nobody liked his arrogance. That same arrogance made him think it was okay to dope both physically and mechanically. Arrogance that thinks he can win the TDF 7X IN A ROW! That arrogance made him reveal Greg Lemond's private details of having been molested as a child. The same jackass that ruined Lemond's frame building company. To this day, he still thinks Floyd landis was wrong for outing him in doping scandal. Dude is the biggest tool in American cycling history.

[@p.l.diablo9864]

Guy is a con man. A cheater. Ge ruined cycling for true domestiques.

[@MicroageHD]

Lance Armstrong is the biggest fraudster in sports of all time

[@Aegis90]

Well, for all you apologists, it's true Armstrong was part of a bigger problem. But the worst part is how he carried it. When you watch how he came after people even close to him, it's quite disturbing.

[@onfiredesign3970]

So many adjectives...all in shock

[@rderouck]

After 1998 every cycling fan kne full well we were in the midst of the EPO era. I honestly didn't care; this was an epic Tour de France and Armstrong would've won in a clean era

[@RogueCylon]

What’s your secret Lance? “I will tell you when I retire, and you can hate me more then”.

[@Rebelass74]

In fairness, they were all juiced up.

[@icarus8471]

Those years were great races. Armstrong did not create the doping problem in cycling. By the early 90s the peloton was a rolling pharmacy with EPO emerging. Armstrong was the best rider of the EPO doping era. There is a reason why after he was officially stripped of his 7 TDF titles, no one else was declared the winner. And all the the govt setting out to destroy Armstrong did was to destroy US cycling without cleaning up the sport at all.

[@TesterAnimal1]

😂😂😂😂 “witch hunt”. “Fake nooos”

[@stockob12]

Armstrong essentially ruined Gregs life for saying he was disappointed that Lance works with Ferrari. He was a psychotic PoS. Read Hamiltons book

[@icarus8471]

@@stockob12-Why should Lemond have said anythingn though? He saw the EPO revolution in the sport first hand, suffered bc of it. Then why should Armstrong doping have upset him?

[@stockob12]

@@icarus8471 you answered your own question lol Lance ruined his name and bankrupted his 20 million dollars a year business because Greg dared speak the truth... he didnt even call lance out, he said it will be the biggest fraud if lance is doping, thats all it took for lance to ruin his life. You are obviously a delusional fanboy if you are defending lance doing that

[@icarus8471]

I know the whole story. Which does not answer my question. Lemond knew what the sport was. And he understood how his business was depending on other companies that were centered around Lance. He says nothing and it would have been fine.

[@jackhammer111]

I think Lance spent too much time denying it. Not that he didn't have to say something but that he didn't have to say that much. This is how the French "get Lance Armstrong's head on a pike" hysteria began. A simple denial was all that was needed because a strong denial wasn't going to convince anybody. He knew he was using EPO, and he also knew the damn near everybody else in the field was too. It was a completely Level Playing Field. You didn't have better EPO or do more EPO and the idea but they had a more sophisticated doping program is ridiculous because at that point Lance didn't have money in the team didn't have money. U.s. postal was not a high-budget team when Lance arrived. Lance received his last round of chemotherapy on December 13th 1996. He shocked team Cofidis by showing up at their training camp on January 11th 1997 and doing a hundred-mile ride. Nonetheless, they voided his contract. In 1998 Lance rode for US postal for no salary. The team owner agreed to pay Lance $1,000 per world ranking point he scored. He scored over a thousand points without riding in the Tour de France. Ask anyone who's ever written with Lance if they know anyone who trained harder and longer and smarter than Lance. Lance clearly saw that the EPO allowed him to train harder and longer whereas other Riders, Jan Ullrich comes to mind, used it as a substitute for training. If you have to name a natural freak of nature Talent Lance has it is his ability to recover. Teammates have said Lance could fall asleep anywhere and sleep like the Dead and wake up raring to go. Winning grand Tours starts with having crit and hemoglobin levels High Enough to deliver enough oxygen to muscle cells that have been trained to be highly efficient in sucking all of the oxygen out of the blood plus processing sugars and fats but maybe the second most important factor has to do with sleep and because that is where the billion years of evolution taught our muscle cells to recover. Maybe Lance was just a world championship sleeper. He's the greatest Grand Tour racer to ever throw a leg over a bike. I actually heard Eddy merckx say exactly that.

[@elypeachy3296]

Good interview where he details some of what you said kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXbMgqemmp2Zn80

[@jackhammer111]

@@elypeachy3296 Yes! He calls lance a champion sleeper. I wasn't surprised when he went after a sleep monitoring system as a sponsor for his show. The whole interview was great. Thanks very much for turning me on to that. It's the best interview with Lance I've ever heard.

[@elypeachy3296]

​@@jackhammer111 If you want another interesting listen google "Travis Tygart Is Coming for Cheaters" half of the podcast is about Lance by the guy who is the CEO of anti-doping agency who put the lid on Lance. There is good insight to the darker side of Lance where he pokerfaced ruthlessly to the very end knowingly he will be caught. Reality was even uglier as Armstrong went after people, but I don't remember from which documentary it was that I watched long ago.

[@elypeachy3296]

@@jackhammer111 At its "Lance Armstrong - Master Of Spin" that was thinking of

[@laszlozoltan5021]

good insight - I read that LA said he had $46000 in the bank post cancer when he went back to the US following his poor Euro race. For a HS dropout with no other career plans, I can fully sympathize with the temptation to cheat via dope. I do consider myself an honest person, but, given similar circumstances, I cannot say I would have done different than he. However, before that it has been alleged that LA engineered his triple-crown $1000000 paycheque with a payoff agreement so perhaps cheating one way or another is his modus operandi/ character flaw. It is a shame that LA cheated- because had he not- he still couldve been a champion rider- but because he did, we and he will never truly know. At least the fact of his doping has come out, ending the questions.

[@leod4315]

Cipo at 36:00 is interesting in light of his current situation

[@dogusbuke2507]

tour is cancelled but not cipolini's record. 🤔i like this kind of controversies. 😄 ITT was amazing :)

[@ManuelFlores-oe2wf]

What’s the problem?? Us Postal has clauses in their contracts that says they can’t use drugs? Case closed!

[@lordnosebergshekelmasterde6025]

All the teams were using drugs, as well as all the top riders. Still no test for EPO in 1999.

[@RogueCylon]

Lord Noseberg Shekelmaster de Rothschild some did it more than anyone else...cough cough. Biggest cheats were the US postal team.

[@needfoolthings]

Mapei should have won every single classement, trying to get out of their horrible rags.

[@shane-irish]

Dont care if they were all on drugs still best times in cycling glad seeing more off the mountain stages than flat ones

[@Medevil9908]

58:09 Someone painted a dong in the road lol

[@robertoneil9304]

Phill Liggett has the voice of an angel

[@aaxxa]

Did Phil finally admit he was wrong about Lance?

[@kevindecoteau3186]

he was not

[@arvandero]

Dopestrong 4EVER!

[@aimiessyou4770]

There are 2 types of dopers: 1. Those few who become great 2. Most of them who still suck

[@caro_santamaria]

2:44:12 "CLEAN TOUR" 😂 Bless your heart! lol

[@MONYN76ISLAS]

excellent tour for lancé armstrong .. well deserved victory .. world champion in 93 '... good riders in their time .. excellent video 🚴🚴

[@marcusmaher-triskellionfil5158]

That's irony...right 😮?

[@afinkeln]

@@marcusmaher-triskellionfil5158 they are all on something at that level

[@sidritvaqari.svpipesdesign]

Idiot like Armstrong

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

Let them web technologies work for you guys, enjoying such EPIC events, yeah, when we used to be such dreamers, such innocent kids, unforgettable indeed, looking back in time learning to improve the future of cycling competitions, more cycling for everybody plizzzzzz, l am the biggest supporter of yours guys

[@michaelhazell6878]

I'm glad they are racing clean 👍🙏💖😀I would be heart broken if I find out if they are doping.

[@CptJET-he8nc]

TY

[@needfoolthings]

1:26:00 AMAZING, this early interview with a pathological liar.

[@joeenglert]

the days of aluminum bikes and lots of drugs

[@cgarby]

RIP Paul

[@hoboroller5642]

Dope or no dope, you still up to train and have little luck to win!!

[@BIGDADDYFRESHx]

Lance raised a half a TRILLION for the cancer cause. If you have cancer in the United States today;the treatment and support you receive is improved compared to generations past partly because of Lance Armstrong.

[@ohcrapitsmrG]

Or giant money laundering

[@TesterAnimal1]

😂😂😂😂

[@TweedSuit]

Armstrong doped from 1992-1996 and was never a contender for GC in any of the grand tours he raced before 1999. The main reason for him winning the TDF from 1999 was his weight loss after the cancer recovery and his building a team focusing on him. Of course doping was still a major part of it but not the most crucial.

[@yanara8198]

Dope is strong?

[@CheviotHills]

Back when France was France

[@xEKOy]

everyone doped up to 200%, love it

[@luisgonzalezalvarez1596]

10 secondes better than indurain in this same time trial..that means at those times miguel did not have a seriuous pretendant behind him to win him in the tours

[@AlonsoRules]

Armstrong nearly went through this TdF in yellow wire to wire

[@sukhmaidickoff]

The man with the best doctors win