Looking back: Bjarne Riis - A legends journey

A look at Bjarne Riis career - including highlights from his biggest moments. Hear him comment on his victories, his childhood and his preparations.
Follow his journey from a "no name" rider in the early 90s to his breakthrough in 1993 were he got his first TDF stage win and finished 5th in the GC.
Se him place on the podium in 95, were he almost beat Miguel Indurain in a time trial and his legendary win at the Tour de France in 1996. The first, and so far only danish rider to do so.
Riis also won Amstel Gold Race later on in his career.
Hope you enjoy this episode in the "Looking back" series. You find links to the other episodes at the bottom.
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Danish commentary.
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[@mortenpoulsen1496]

Det var tider på tv. Doping eller ej. Sindssyg god underholdning .

[@stenovitz]

Tak for en fantastisk tur nedad memory lane. Fantastisk sammenklippet. Husker jeg som fattig studerende i start90erne under universitetets uendeligt lange sommerferier passede mine forældres hus mens de var 3 uger rundt i Frankrig og sørgede for at have VHS'en klar til at optage det hele. VHS'erne er der stadig men mangler at digitalisere dem, tvivler dog på, jeg får klippet så perfekt sammen som her. Godt arbejde!

[@xSawyeR88x]

Tak for alt Bjarne, du gav os nogen vanvittige minder, minder der hænger fast i hovedet!

[@tx4n]

Thanks Mr. 60% for being an example to drug addicts

[@kasperjepsen2917]

Mate, you can’t ride with a hematocrit at 60%.

[@MadsOwnedByBonzo]

@@tx4n Riis er en stjerne

[@telmolicious]

@@tx4nLike all cycling winners 😂

[@edwardwong654]

Bjarne Riis - the patron saint of Dope!

[@frankcarlsen4921]

Isn't it enough with all the name calling? Here is a man who competed in an environment where doping was the norm and not the exception. He never threatened anyone with lawyers like others. He didn't attack or hung others out in the press. Never accused anyone. No matter what kind of doping that was involved it all comes down to one thing. Who can eat the pain and keep performing! Make no mistake he was a champion and to me he will always stand out as an exceptional athlete that trained like no other. Today we live in better more doping free world but please don't judge the past with the norms of today. Ride safe!

[@ericberend2039]

Great, now stop being a hypocrite and apply that same standard to Lance Armstrong.

[@frankcarlsen4921]

@@ericberend2039 What do you mean double standard? There is no doubt that Lance Armstrong was a person that had the capability to eat pain in order to perform and he was an exceptional racer by any standard. Where I lost my respect for him was the when he went out of his way to hurt people that said he wasn't clean. He smeared anyone speaking up and took Christ and all the disciples to court in order to protect himself.

[@uberkloden]

@@frankcarlsen4921 Dumb. Do you hate Merckx. Same personality as Lance, when he raced. Exactly.

[@element4element4]

The problem with doping is that it doesn't affect everybody the same amount. Due to their different biology, some get a lot more out of doping than others. There is a misconception that if a bunch of people take doping, their relative performance will stay the same after doping as it was before. But but in reality, it can completely flip who performs best even when both are doped equally.

[@mosgrovecleancutkid681]

​@@uberklodenEM was no clinical sociopath !

[@TheFrankyboy75]

Hvilken legende. En sand mester. Elsker, at folk, der sikkert bliver forpustet af at gå ned i Rema, ved, at EPO skabte hele hans karriere. Bjarne var først blandt en masse ligemænd, der søgte lige nøjagtig de samme fordele, han selv gjorde.

[@torbensargentlarsen1874]

Tusinde tak for produktionen! Som een allerede har tidligere skrevet: Fantastisk sammenklippet! Og meget af det formentligt også fra gamle VHS videobånd som møjsommeligt er digitaliseret.... Tak igen! Har her til morgen "opdaget" din kanal, og du har nu underholdt mig de første 4 (af mange flere) timer med Jesper Skibby, Rolf Sørensen og Bjarne Riis. Glæder mig til at se mere.

[@lewisjohn2597]

I can literally taste the EPO through my screen!

[@Shantiante]

no you can´t

[@lewisjohn2597]

@@Shantiante reeeealy? 🙄😂😂😂

[@lewisjohn2597]

@Firsthgyhgyhuy Lastujhujhuj you can't taste it? 😂

[@colbymasvidal2397]

Cry more

[@lewisjohn2597]

@@colbymasvidal2397 😂 emotional bunch here

[@ZipTrunk]

Så får Danmark endelig en vinder af Tour de France. Tillykke Jonas

[@filip4dk]

Han har en dygtig læge

[@MONYN76ISLAS]

another great dope of international professional cycling... Everyone dope... no matter what they say...🚴🚴

[@durianriders]

he rocked the bald look well! Would have kept him cool on the alpine stages.

[@CyclingMemories]

Yeah he did! Riis was a childhood hero of mine🤟😁

[@erlingandersen8008]

@@CyclingMemories nevertheless he was not clean

[@ronbelleza5588]

@@erlingandersen8008 nobody is clean at that time.. probably.

[@telmolicious]

@@erlingandersen8008 Who was? Might as well stop watching cycling there buddy 😅

[@erlingandersen8008]

@@telmolicious i have

[@JoseAlvarez-dp8fz]

E.P.O ic looking back! Thanks

[@stuartdryer1352]

When Rius won his TdF everyone doped. Ok, that was part of the culture that went back to the early 20th century. But later on and for many years Riis was a team director. And he was extremely shady about doping in that capacity, this according to the Danish Anti-dopung Agency ( and others). According to the report, among other things, Riis asked Danish rider Bo Hamburger to acquire erythropoietin (EPO) for German team-mate Jorg Jaksche. He is no different from Lance Armstrong. It is remarkable he has not been banned from the sport.

[@ericberend2039]

​@Smattless Fuck off, sanctimonious hypocrite shithead. NO - REALLY. "He isn't a psychopath, he's just a cheat." - how convenient for your dictation to all here. The standard of comparison here, is exactly and only that: cheating. Your dissembling does nothing to change this fact. How were Americans like Jack Heid treated, when they came to compete honestly in Europe in a discipline of the sport that WE AMERICANS made for everyone (Track racing, of course)? Aren't you Euro-bigots supposed to adore tradition, above all? What's that matter, where's your respect where credit is due? Real convenient of you to overlook infamous stories like just how Roger Riviere got paralyzed. As for who's the real cheats and backstabbers, Euro cycling establishment apparatchiks have no peer in the world of sports. How about, back in 1998 and the Festina affair? Operacion Puerto, ring a bell? Looks like a whole bunch of Euro-first, American-hating bigots have a massive amount of raging hypocrisy, to explain! As for Lance - stuff it, Euro-bigot. "Degenerates"? Typical elitist phony-superiority crap. Save your overweening superiority complex for where it belongs - sessions with your psychiatrist; and not for a narcissist ego-stroke polluting a comment section of racing fans.

[@4lc4p0rn]

@@ericberend2039 officially he lost his titles because he admitted to doping use, but its a public secret that he really lost them because almost everyone hated him, and wanted him gone from the sport for good. half the fans over here doesnt even believe the sport is clean now, and dont give a shit about it. personally i think its bullshit that he got his titles taken away, but i dont want to see him anywhere near the sport anyway, he's more than willing to hurt others for his own benefit, and people like that should piss off.

[@colbymasvidal2397]

Cry more🤣🤣👌

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Lance Armstrong was a full blown doped asshole and Bjarne Riis was just doped. That’s the main difference.

[@Imtygaming]

@@4lc4p0rn cry more

[@ibthecat6279]

Vores allesammens Bjarne! Doping eller ej.. Han var den store!

[@ChristianE_E]

Ja. Alle var på doping, men han var den bedste til det haha

[@ibthecat6279]

@@ChristianE_E Nej. Han var den bedste til at træne, spise, sove og optimere sin krop til perfektion. Dopingen var en del af det og han var hverken bedre eller værre til at dope sig. ALLE kørte på lige vilkår og der findes intet belæg for, at han var mere dopet end de andre. Kun anklager om højere hæmotrikit værdi end de andre. Det er aldrig blevet bevist.

[@telmolicious]

Doping eller ej! Vi elsker vores Bjarne 😂🎶

[@ZipTrunk]

Ja, den store klovn

[@clausclausie7560]

Længe leve Bjarne!

[@followcasper9552]

Hvad hedder musikken der kører fra Bensound ?

[@gasgazman9698]

i liked it

[@Schandri]

han var en af de første og han inspirerede mange danskere. tror vel godt man kan sige at han er del i den udvikling dansk cykelsport har haft.

[@gnubbolo]

ha rischiato la morte per vincere e restare nella Storia. mi tolgo il cappello.

[@SuperAzeone]

He is a legend

[@ZipTrunk]

Nope

[@Mr.Bear.]

@@ZipTrunk Of course he is! The best among peers that year! ALL who truly competed in the GC back then used illegal substances! That was WELL KNOWN by all riders of the peloton! You can’t take away from him that he just bested them all that year, on equal terms. Just as people celebrated. Indurain the previous year, the celebration of Riis that year was equally justified. Why people would think otherwise is baffling to me.

[@ZipTrunk]

@@Mr.Bear. tsk tsk tsk

[@HolgerDanske874]

@@ZipTrunk Bish

[@Boeddel]

Bjærne Riis...

[@747driver3]

His records include most EPO over a career.

[@bernardo2151]

EPO legend

[@valeriogiongo3773]

Every champions since '90s Is a Epo legend

[@henrikandersen918]

Han var den beste i sin generation alle var sku på dope den gang Bare se på cycling idag super kedeligt

[@darkpain1069]

Andava come un motore a quel tour...lui che e' sempre stato un mediocre

[@valeriogiongo3773]

@@darkpain1069 1993 Quinto, 1995 terzo, 1996 primo

[@darkpain1069]

Secondo me non e' mai stato un fuoriclasse. poi al tour 96 si trasformo' in una macchina sembrava robocop. Rischio' la vita per vincere un tour come ha poi ammesso anche lui.

[@andymurday4538]

Deserving winner of the 1996 Tour de France!!!

[@2011hwalker]

EPO for the win lmao. Dude was drugged up to the eyeballs.

[@talbech]

Dejligt tilbageblik på en af de mest medrivende TDF nogensinde. Tak Bjarne.

[@ZipTrunk]

Nope

[@danielebasile3957]

Legend at 60%

[@valeriogiongo3773]

Like everyone

[@ericberend2039]

​@@valeriogiongo3773 Except for Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis, who are shit on and derogated as '"Evil Dopers". How about, back in 1998 and the Festina affair? Operacion Puerto, ring a bell? Looks like a whole bunch of Euro-first, American-hating bigots have a massive amount of raging hypocrisy, to explain!

[@hephephep75]

Som at hive et køleskab op fra langebro...

[@bwebster1211]

EPO

[@mikeinnusa8786]

pure talent, gifted rider its a shame that armstrong lost all of his tdf wins and everyone else kept there wins

[@ericberend2039]

Scapegoated for the Euro doping 'Omerta' club. Brash, arrogant, rude, over-the-top menacing at times...but Lance beat the doping Euros at their own corrupt game - and their precious bicycle racing establishment couldn't stand him - or Americans in racing - for that. Riis has offered to give his Jersey back. There's Marco "Mr. Naturally-High-Hematocrit' Pantani (at the epicenter of Euro EPO in Italy), Jan Ullrich has confessed his cheating, Contador was claiming "tainted meat" for a masking agent for doping. Operacion Puerto? Squashed by partisan Euro National ADA's and futbol-obsessed Judges destroying the evidence, while the USADA serves up U.S. bicucyle racers on a silver platter! Then, no notice of EPO smuggled in refrigerated panniers on fake press motorcycles? (Floyd Landis used to take photos of these, and get all worked up about it) - how about it, the truth of the matter? Yet. ONLY Americans have had their Tour de France Wins "cancelled" - why is that?? I think we all of us bicycling road racing fans, know why. And now that ASO has assh*t American-hating bigot Prudhomme in there, expect the same chauvinist bullsh*t for the next oh, about 30+ years. So, he and the ASO jerks have fended off the 'terrible' Americans. Don't look now, Christian (Prudhomme the turd), but there's a new wave of Africans coming. Wonder how you'll cheat them and manage to run them off?

[@andreadg5429]

@@ericberend2039 As an european, I agree with you

[@telmolicious]

@@ericberend2039 He was taking down by an American, Floyd Landis who admitted everything. After that it was Jeff Nowitzky from USADA, another American who lead the investigation that took Lance down. I agree that he has become the scapegoat for doping in cycling though. That's all over the world however, non the least in America.

[@deathkampdrone]

Agreed. It was just the name of the game at that time, sadly. I don't know, but it seems like maybe Lance got an extra hard punishment, because it was a little too obvious when he doped. He was basically glow in the dark. I mean doping is doping, to some degree, but it is weird how differently riders were punished. And let's just get one thing straight: plenty of fantastic riders during the nineties. They may not have competed on completely equal terms, but they were all fantastic riders. Let's just appreciate how much better things are now. And still remember all the epic memories. Why not have our cake and eat it too ;D

[@thesoultwins72]

@@ericberend2039[or more accurately - 'ericbellend'] ......Jeez mate - are you really so ignorant to the real reasons why Armstrong was 'singled out'?!? None of the other cyclists that you mention [and by the way Pantani NEVER EVER tested positive for PED's] bullied, intimidated, threatened and manipulated others as Armstrong did. Armstrong was/is a complete psychopath that would stop at nothing to achieve his objectives to be a 'winner'. He deliberately set out to destroy the lives of anyone or anything that stood in his way. Nobody else in the history of cycling has ever come close to that kind of maniacal behaviour. Good riddance to a thoroughly disgusting human being.

[@matthewhaverkamp8657]

Mr. 60's greatest achievement was not getting a stroke from abusing EPO.

[@telmolicious]

That's just s nickname from the Festina riders that couldn't stomach that he beat them. They were only allowed 55 % so they speculated that he must have had a level of 60 since he beat them.

[@HistoricalRabbithole]

Yes.. A legend in performance drugs abuse :D

[@kasperjepsen2917]

Everyone used doping. He was simply the best, most dedicated and most well prepared that year.

[@tobiaslevring2058]

Hvad med et tilbage blik på Brian Holm

[@CyclingMemories]

Kunne være lækkert.....Jeg ligger desværre bare ikke inde med så meget materiale omkring den gode Brian Holm 😉

[@tobiaslevring2058]

Cycling Memories nå ok

[@egelund1976]

Jeg væddede med min kæreste det sidste år om Bjarne vandt og jeg sejrede. Bjarne var blevet nummer 7-5-3 hvert år så det måtte være tid.

[@telmolicious]

Men haver du forudset Indurains downfall? Han var ristet 😅

[@xandersdinokingdom9443]

MR 60 %

[@cufusmaximus]

Mr 60

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

Bjarne Riis : Mr 60 Me : 0.60

[@LonghairMusic]

Snyderen fra Herning

[@kasperrieberg3495]

Glem ikke han kørte imod 200-300 andre snydere 🤷‍♂️

[@onkelmarvin8360]

" A Legends Journey "............My ass.............." A Doped Legends Journey "............is a more accurate title !!!!!!

[@mikejensen7133]

Doping….

[@kasperrieberg3495]

Yes, but that goes for all of them 🤷‍♂️

[@uberkloden]

This guy…..Why the hell is Armstrong vilified?

[@kasperjepsen2917]

Bjarne Riis didn’t sue people for millions because they accused him of doping. However i still think that Armstrong should keep his seven titles.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Armstrong was an asshole - Riis wasn’t.

[@poffyhd3521]

kan han ikke cykle med cykelhjem

[@nielskjr5432]

Var der slet ikke nogen der undrede sig? Pludselig i '93 sad han med de allerbedste. Han angreb på vej op mod Alpe d' Huez. Joeh han var på en speciel diæt. Var blevet mere seriøs med træning. Bla bla bla...

[@Ettibridget]

Ak ja, det var dengang. Jeg har ikke gidet se Tour de France siden de fyrede Jørn Mader. Nu er Jørgen Leth også væk...

[@telmolicious]

Rolf er ren 😂

[@KTK44]

Vingegaard!

[@ZipTrunk]

@@KTK44 Yes….nu får Danmark endelig en ægte vinder af Tour de France. Tillykke Jonas

[@lassejensen5220]

Nålen fra Herning

[@timmurphy1215]

….A doper’s journey…..

[@andredeketeleastutecomplex]

I hate all dopers, and since I do love sports I'm really embarrassed by all the cheating.

[@simonthomsen8578]

If you don't dope, you don't cope

[@simonthomsen8578]

I don't think it's fair to hate the dopers, I think you ought to hate the system that normalizes doping. The cyclists risked their life in order to compete and earn a living back then.

[@Ostergaard1987]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJS7kqhnq7d3p8k - En sang til Bjarne Riis ;)

[@boiwutdahellboi512]

Hvor sjovt, jeg kan slet ikke få vejret fordi jeg griner så meget😐😐😐😐

[@LosPonitex]

Han kunne virkelig trampe igennem på den højeste klinge.

[@djhowa]

stamkunden hos borgen

[@telmolicious]

Borgen?

[@hbs1782]

Jonas er ren

[@kennethmortensen8159]

Jeg ved godt hvad der gav den store succes💉💊

[@petergriffin6999]

Er det virkelig snyd ar vinde med doping når anden pladsen også er doppet

[@kennethmortensen8159]

@@petergriffin6999 øh ja

[@wareverwarever9200]

Riis was awsome even if he doped as he made one of the most obvious disgusting dirty dopers still considered clean, to rage quit the sport: Miguel DRUGdurain!

[@ericberend2039]

Riis is awesome, but Lance is 'the Devil"...?! Looks like a whole bunch of Euro-first, American-hating bigots have a massive amount of raging hypocrisy, to explain!

[@jakobtoftfrandsen3416]

SKIDERIK!!!

[@tobe4722]

Jan Ullrich would easily have won the Tour 96' if he could have go on his real speed without helping the old man Riis

[@TellusJD]

That is something you really dont get, Jan was not at all as strong in the mountains compared to Riis. In fact noone in the history has done as strong a climb as Riis did in 1996 on Heutacam. It is by watts the best climb ever done on a HC climb. Jan at no time in his career came close, nor did anyone else not even Pantani and his records on Alp Dhuez. Bjarnes climb on Heutacam is calculated to 6,97 watts pr kg almost 7 for a whopping 35-36 minutes and stands as the unbeatable record above all others. Just forget it with Jan his career all time best was alp dhuez 97 around 6,5 - 6,6 watts pr kg. That is 5 % slower than Bjarne, 5% in the top is a huge margin. Bjarne 1997 was a shadow of himself, from his former 3 years. And for several Years Riis could have placed better in the Tour he was the one that had to help a clearly worse captain in 93 94 and 95. As visible in this Jan was free to do whatever he liked, he wasnt really pulling much for Bjarne, only thing that would have been a nono was to counter attack his own captain to pull the others back to him. Yet still he could not follow Virenque or leblanc on Heutacam he could have just followed nothing stopped him. One thing is for sure Jan did a hell of a TT in the end of the tour, however Bjarne I believe didnt give it all - he knew he had won.

[@kasperrieberg3495]

Let’s play the if game all day