Cycling Tour de france 1999 part 1

[@FB1BB1BB1]

The good old days...No helmet, doping...Great racing!

[@elialexander-tanner5784]

Ha ha I have to agree!

[@jesselee4405]

@@elialexander-tanner5784 Me too!

[@markhighbaugh4076]

Hell yeah

[@MrWeedWacky]

the era of the great mutato's

[@Abundant_Lax]

FB1BB1BB1 Ha ha, right!

[@derphael_4337]

Are we just going to ignore this marvellous piece of street art at 59:29 ?

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

Dude that's awesome. They've even lined it up exactly with the white lines to give added dynamic effect lol That's so unashamedly French to leave it in the footage that goes around the world ha ha Helicopter camera man to producer on the ground: "Coq sur la route qui arrive, que dois-je faire!?" French producer: "Viva La Coq continuez à filmer continuez à filmer!" 59:27 Love how Phil Liggett doesn't say anything about it despite how everyone would of seen it lol.

[@rockhopper01]

Outstanding upload!

[@DavidErdody]

What was the result of Lance Armstrong's return to racing? Many thousands getting checked out for cancer and catching it early and glad to be alive this day.

[@racingfuel28]

Yeah, whether you agree or not with him using performance enhancers and doping, there is no doubt that he raised more money than most could ever hope to for cancer research. It kills me that people will basically crucify the guy for “cheating” also known as doing the exact same thing as every other person in the race, but just act like Livestrong never existed. Focus on the good a person does, not what their failures are.

[@alahmi100]

i would pay 500 dollars to see all the tours armstrong won in 4k

[@matthewlemke5310]

Get over it pussy

[@armyretired28]

@xellossaxon Eddie Merckx doped and all the riders of the past and present...they just weren't caught!

[@kalo_reefer]

600

[@alahmi100]

@@armyretired28 they still use doping. Lots of riders with heart problems. Doping can cause cancer or heart problems.

[@ecarter202]

the real tragedy with lance is that no tour will ever be as entertaining without him.

[@treygray2817]

ecarter202 Lance's victories were almost always boring. Aside from 2003 the outcome was a foregone conclusion.

[@AlonsoRules]

still more exciting than Froome

[@trickinicki1456]

Both guys boring, bought the best riders to form a team which escorted them to the last climb. But Froome at least rode one riskful and exciting attack at the Giro this year, Lance none in his whole career. None of them is comparable to Contador, who was the most entertaining and charismatic character. No doubt all three dominators were on drugs, but Contador was the coolest.

[@trinerd]

There was nothing exciting about him.

[@jpguthrie6669]

I guess you never saw the 1989 Tour, when Greg Lemond took the lead and won the race on the last day at the finish in Paris. Never in his life did Lance have as an exciting finish.

[@adrianj78]

55:16 start of coverage of stage 9 to Sestrieres

[@ChrizzzyEGolf]

Lol, I own these dvds from 1999 to 2005

[@kevinmoore9084]

Silver Lucario 97' video

[@telmolicious]

U can here the fakeness 😂 Im so surprised.. Its not like ive been taking doping or anything like that...... 😂😂🙈🙈🙈

[@joesmithiii6287]

also, always liked Mapei's kits

[@leeshackelford7517]

This 1999 Year...Saeco Cannandale team...the bike I have

[@StFidjnr]

I saw one of cickasmith's videos Mike (from SBS in aus) did the undignified ceremony of handing an aussie at one point the red lantern which is the cyclist in last place of the tour de france

[@joesmithiii6287]

if I almost died, then given another chance to compete I would have cheated my a$$ off! I mean since it was rampant through the peleton, I mean. but I would have been nice to others, not a complete and utter tool.

[@suminshizzles6951]

Which is why, in part, why he was able to get away with it for so long. Apart from being a bully and a dickhead. He had us all believing that he was clean. It was his recovery from cancer that made it credible. As much as i dont like him i will say this. Everybody was doping at that time. Nearly everybody. Everybody in the top ten was doping. Those that were not were insignificant or domestique's. As much as i dont like lance i will say that he was just leveling the playing field.

[@uweclaunitzer7170]

I assume I would NOT dope for the same reasons. Even more so since testicular cancer is by some experts believed to be triggered by - doping substances...

[@matthewlemke5310]

@Smattless You're a fucking idiot.

[@tranjose]

Doping was and is still the preserve of European sport. The overwhelming majority of the methods were developed in Europe.

[@keirfarnum6811]

xellossaxon Not the case. All of the American pro cyclists have stated they never used PEDs until they went to Europe. But it depends on the sport: certainly professional sports such as baseball and football and anaerobic track and field sports were rife with doping. But Russia is the country in which doping was most prevalent since it was state sponsored during the Soviet era and recently before Sochi. Most people associate PEDs with strength oriented sports (especially in the US) and not aerobic sports and it really was the European cycling that pioneered the use of PEDs for aerobic sports. And cycling especially has a long history of using these drugs; it was thought by many that the sport was so difficult that it was necessary. They really didn’t think of it as cheating; they thought of it as medically necessary just to be able to do it. Back when I was racing mountain bike in Alaska (during the 90s) I didn’t even know that steroids could help in a sport like cycling; I thought of it as something that only helped with developing strength and muscle mass so I never even considered that it might be helpful for an aerobic sport. One of the reasons I like alpine skiing is that PEDs don’t help and most athletes don’t bother using them; and even if someone did, it wouldn’t make a difference. Alpine skiing is all about technique and psychology. Of course conditioning is important and helpful, but it’s not what determines who wins.

[@wareverwarever9200]

WOW Mario SNIFFollini!

[@Mo_Ketchups]

20:25 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤘

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

1:11:50 1:31:15 1:44:09

[@jiji1946]

fantastic how these commentators can read the riders' minds.

[@FredRoberts-w7c]

If only Lance had won two or three, then said, ‘I want to help cancer patients like myself’ and done that. But he couldn’t do that.

[@damiencallaghan9389]

1999 - Twenty years ago... The Memories David Walsh - The Journalist who wrote Seven Deadly Sins said "Our cancer has returned" - Meaning Lance Armstrong AND HE WAS RIGHT Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen MUST have known what was going on - They sound so innocent

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

1:11:50 1:31:15 1:44:09

[@cojobi]

Glad that they solved the doping issues! HaHa.

[@Silligk]

Does anyone else think that no helmets gave a little more "character" to the riders? I fully understand a helmet being required for safety regulations and all that but I wish it wasn't so

[@johandust6926]

Yes, by far. In my opinion, they should allow not using helmets during climbs again.

[@UnivegaSuperSport]

Yes. The impact of seeing a full face and head and the variety of faces and heads can't be underestimated.

[@StFidjnr]

25:45 abandoned the race

[@mikes3109]

Were Beltran and Contreras Armstrong's teammates later on?

[@ChrizzzyEGolf]

Yes, Beltran was.

[@suminshizzles6951]

@@ChrizzzyEGolf Postal had a habit of buying the competition.

[@MSJ860]

The days of dope.. The good old days

[@wamba7717]

Hey, you gotta be brave and you gotta be strong "puke"

[@alex9046]

1:15:04 it was interesting, alright

[@jemma_19988]

looked way cooler without helmets

[@anthonyx3576]

37:36

[@villy27]

Armstrong was testet positive after day one. If the UCI had not obscured the facts, he never would have won any tour.

[@rishabprasad7633]

is this when Lance used the cream excuse?

[@uweclaunitzer7170]

@@rishabprasad7633 Yes. Similarly, he would not have been allowed to start at the Tour in 2001, since he was tested positive on EPO prior that year. "Thankfully", UCI covered it up...

[@trumpinator9295]

Armstrong was Perfektion in Doping. Even Ullrich had not any Chance.

[@leeshackelford7517]

Ulrich was doping, too. The bottom line, Armstrong training was the difference

[@alfpacino2630]

the greatest cycling swindle!

[@richardjohnson4696]

Raise your arms at the finish line if you have one testicle and are a cheater. Yep.

[@nonvaxetfier]

ARMSTRONG LE DROGUE

[@paulsingh9043]

Lier and a cheat, he knew exactly what he was doing, moreover the team were supplying the drugs and administering them, glad this dope fiend got caught out, he was a real nasty piece of work. I wouldn't spit on him if he was on fire!

[@dw-kf5fd]

Haha mostly everyone in every sport is on stuff. You're ignorant.

[@paulsingh9043]

@@dw-kf5fd fair enough, but he shit on slot of people in the way, just my opinion.

[@leeshackelford7517]

They ALL lied about doping...