The RABID DOPED who DESTROYED his Own Bike because he lost the Tour de France

[@cyclingstories]

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[@maxmaremmazzi4994]

Today in 2022 Riis is 58 years old and has the same look he had in 1996. No, it’s not that he currently seems to be 32 years old. It's that at 32, he seemed to be 58.

[@Aegisth]

He weighs twice as much and is completely bald.

[@bimbobaggypants4820]

His premature baldness made him look old, he would have been better shaving his head like pantani did.

[@Lizakilledlisa]

@@bimbobaggypants4820 Does anyone here know where Riis works today? I'm making a podcast about doping in Belgium and want to interview him.

[@prebenbertelsen1731]

…..and he is still popular in DK. We dont kill our stars.

[@maxmaremmazzi4994]

@@prebenbertelsen1731 You may not kill your stars, but you’re also used to commenting with completely unrelated things, as I see.

[@puckloki873]

Lunchtime in the park on a busy Friday in NYC. I sit down for an unusually decadent lunch to soothe my nerves and I find a new cycling stories video. How did I survive decades without KZbin and channels like these to comfort this weary soul ?

[@likeaboss6287]

The quality of the footage in this channel is insane

[@91Metalhead]

According to Riis, his anger regarding his time trial bike wasn't due to Ullrich getting to ride one, but that his bike ended up having issues and suddenly he couldn't ride it in the prologue, but Ullrich could. And in the other time trial he had insisted on riding it, even though he crashed on the way to the race and damaged the bike. After riding a bike that wasn't working properly and having a puncture he got off and threw it out in the field.

[@didisenft]

Ullrich also did not use the future look bike until the final time trial in EuroDisney. Even Banesto riders could not use them until the final time trial, because it was not validated from UCI.

[@meibing4912]

Exactly. The team made him ride a bike that did not work and which he was against. They also had a mechanical problem before the start - and still sent him off on the bike which failed him and cost him so much in the race.

[@donaldduck4888]

Roid rage.

[@TheRongy]

Had to stop and shit in the ditch, comedy gold!😂🚴‍♂️

[@poly_hexamethyl]

I love your whimsically amused-sounding, slightly cynical narration. Very entertaining!

[@leonardofabbri7930]

His narrative style is amazing. Like a betrayed lover who wants to take his disenchanted revenge.

[@needfoolthings]

Maaaany many marks and defensive apologists for the doped around here who simply don't get the satirical notes and expose their audiende hypocrisy.

[@paulseddon7493]

Not to forget the comedic music which perfectly accompanies it. Love it.

[@schaffelaer1902]

I sense clearly more sympathy for Miguel and der Jan, than for our bald Danish friend in this video 😂

[@astrupeagle]

this video stinks. Clearly he doesnt like Riis. Never anything bad to say about the other dopers of that era as if Riis was the one and only to hold responsible. They gave his bike developement to Jan, No help on the team he won with the year before, getting divorce, press getting on his nerves, paparazies everywhere. I would have ripped that damned bike to peaces myself :)

[@janscanulfsson9295]

What a story and so nicely told guys. I was at EuroDisney for the final TT and saw Riis set off in fly-catching mode, only to hear about yet more "problems" on the radio.... legendary bike-throwing !

[@nighttrain1236]

I watched all these 90s TDFs back in the day as an innocent totally unaware of the surreptitious pharmaceutical project it had degenerated into. It's a bit like the old WWE/WCW wrestling that was all booked. As kids, we thought it was all 'real'. Just like pro-cycling of the same era, the historic 'back of stage' drama is much more interesting that the 'front of stage' fakery.

[@gilean6179]

@rollinrat4850 yeah, you are right. I had posters of these guys in my bedroom growing up in faR away Philippines.

[@sneakyfox4651]

Riis did the classical Hybris error after his first TdF win: Firstly, he tinkered with his new 100.000,- Euro TT toy than he trained on it, maybe thinking that an optimal setup on this mechanic marvel would automatically speed him to another triumph. Secondly, because he hadn't trained that much on it, he had totally forgotten that his bottlecage was attached Triathlon-style to the rear of his saddle, and so he tipped over at the TT start ramp when his right leg hit the bottles when he dismounted, most probably disalligning the derailleur just enough to send the chain past the outer cog and jam it in the space between the cogs and the frame. But what do you do when you fail misarably and only have yourself to blame? You whip your servant, and thus his favourite toy was ditched into a random French ditch despite it was solely its master's fault it did not perform as commanded. And yes, Bjarne Riis was celebrated as a true hero when he returned home in yellow. But soon after the facade cracked. It started whith a female journalist (I don't remember her name) asked Riis if he had ever taken doping. His first answer was "I have never tested positive". When she than asked again, he replied witn an angry "No!". But at that moment everybody knew Riis had just revealed himself; the journalist, the spectaters, and Riis himself and thus it could only go one way from there. Soon after came the career end and the famous press conference where he admitted to using Epo. On a crazy note, in those years there was a Danish comedy group called "Drengene fra Angora" (The boys from Angora) that had made a parody cycling team called "Team Easy on" (the sponsor being the non-existent "Easy On" condom company), consisting of two riders, the Danish climber Bobby Olsen and the Dutch sprinter Pim de Keysergracht, and their cigarette-smoking Directeur Sportif, Henning Primdal. On the 2010 DVD we follow them for 11 episodes as they try to qualify for the TdF, not least by having their own song and through Primdahl's Modern Mangement coaching. It's hilarious. Team Easy On have their own YT-channel now. It's gold! Then, when Riis admitted to doping, Team Easy On naturally had to do the same, and so they held a press conference with Primdahl admitting to slipping banned substannces into Olsen's coffee and Olsen bursting into tears and excuse to everybody, including his best friend Morten. Then de Keysergracht rattles off a long list of everything banned that the team had used since 1984, including sniffing scooter gasoline as late as the night before. But here is the funniest thing: Some clever guy took the video from Riis admitting to Epo and paired it with the audio from de Keysergracht admitting to taking every existent drug in the world. That video still has me laughing when I watch it. Bjarne Riis' original Epo press conference: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eam8kJ6sjsZ5a7s Team Easy On Doping press conference (partly in Danish, partly in English): kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnKsaGdpjpKep9k The hilarious mix (subtitled): kzbin.info/www/bejne/rajMlpqOl7uDbaM P.S. I nicked my YT-name from that Team Easy On's press conference. ;0)

[@ibet72]

Brilliant :)

[@sneakyfox4651]

@@ibet72 If you mean Team Easy On's press conference and the cloned one: Yes, they are brilliant. If you mean my rambling on about Bjarne Riis' merits: Thanks a lot! Anyway: I think that the female journalist that exposed him with her questions to him about doping might have been the Danish TV2 reporter Line Baun Danielsen, herself a former top athlete from the Danish national ice hockey team.

[@hansemannluchter643]

The female reporter was Line "Er det en abe" Baun Danielsen.

[@sneakyfox4651]

@@hansemannluchter643 Yes, I know that now. I recently read Riis' autobiography where he mentions Danielsen and her doping question. That autobiography was OK, but it wasn't as good as Ole Ritter's ditto. I can recommend that one. P.S. Danielsen later explained the "Er det en abe?" sentence was caused by difficulties to see what was really going on at the quite small monitor in her desk.

[@zonderbaar]

😅

[@tacheovale]

Ah the 90's....those halcyon days when one wore a short sleeve shirt and tie. Those were simpler times.

[@needfoolthings]

Well, now a flimsy collared polo shirt and your wife's high waisted jeans are considered sunday attire...

[@XBKLYN]

Love when he ignores the kid's plea for an autograph. This is so wonderfully dark.

[@veterinarius7646]

Kid didnt lose anything, cause his signature is worthless, ok maybe he could use it to wipe his ass off with it

[@joecool2678]

Riis in that short sleeve shirt, tie & balding head looks like the guy I.T. sends to fix the photo copy machine 🤣

[@golternator333]

Nope. He looks like a tourist bus driver

[@luther1546]

It's hilarious to watch grown men have temper tantrums and destroy their toys.

[@rweissfeld]

I’m danish and I love these videos!

[@thefrost490]

“Of Ulrich telling him how many women in the street he was going to invite….” 😂💀🤣 Your channel deserves way more subs for those sort of comments alone!

[@andrecharles1360]

This had me dying.

[@batard2001]

Yes, he is bald… we got it !

[@markstender6198]

Do one on Michael Rasmussen 👌

[@oreocarlton3343]

Yes

[@skylineXpert]

12.000 dkk for a steel tube bike and he was doped as hell. Throwing It into the field. I was only a child when I saw him on tv doing It. I didnt know what doping was.

[@klaasdeboer8106]

Quite curious what they are taking right now, haven't heard a lot about doping this year, and there is something else I do not understand: most effective doping is boosting red blood cells which you can do completely legally by staying at altitude for a while, what are the advantages of EPO compared to staying in the mountains for a while?

[@julianmorris9951]

You can bet they’re on something!!!! I don’t care about drugs in sports because at elite level they’re all at it!!! as long as the racing is exiting who cares, only fantasists believe it’s clean 🤣

[@drunkensailor112]

They aren't using doping anymore. Only some fancy expensive supplements like ketonen that few teams can afford, or even wish to use. But jumbo visma and Bahrain use them

[@klaasdeboer8106]

@@drunkensailor112 I am very curious, but iph I were a teamdoctor, I would search a place where you can book a hotel on threethousand meters altitude where you can train at lower altitude.

[@carlbruhn1772]

Training at altitude certainly works however after multiple days of a grand tour the hematocrit begins falling. EPO will stop the slide giving an incredible edge. Before science caught up in the testing all the elite's we're rolling on high octane. Many young cyclist's died in their sleep due the thicker blood stopping the heart.

[@drunkensailor112]

@@carlbruhn1772 which young riders died?

[@Smokey66s]

Lance took doping to another level coupled with disgraceful treatment of many good people.

[@sneakyfox4651]

Exactly. Perhaps the doped Armstrong was a great athlete among his doped peers. But he was never a sportsman. Not in a million years.

[@edwardojg]

Bjarne riis a man paul sherwen once called barney rice 🤣

[@blackbird2469]

I remember Rijs very supportive with Ullrich afterwards and in 98. I think he was quite smart and conscious of his capabilities. Clearly he lost lot of weight and overdid with doping to be among the top riders, something unsustainable, but he found himself a relevant role in the cycling world. Fignon, one of the smartest in the geoup, wanted him in his team when Rins was a young average rider: probably he saw some skills … that tour was unbelievable: played a role to me in Indurain decision of retiring earlier than expected

[@drunkensailor112]

Fignon didn't want him in his team. His team just got him. Fignon even writes in his book that after he saw riis take yellow in 1996 in the mountains. He stood up in front of his TV and started laughing for 5 minutes straight.

[@BobbyDick22785]

@@drunkensailor112 So ? What major battle Fignon had even won himself? Lost the most battles to Hinault, LeMond, Roche, Delgado ? Except of 1989, he was crashed in any tour from 1985-retirement. Even in heaven, he can't say shit.

[@drunkensailor112]

@@BobbyDick22785 wow. The point we were just discussing flew completely by over your head.

[@BobbyDick22785]

@@drunkensailor112 Okay, so what again was Fignon's justification to laugh at Riis when he won at Sestriere in your very own opinion?

[@drunkensailor112]

@@BobbyDick22785 the fact that riis couldn't climb for shit. Say what you want, but fignon is definitely a person who can make that judgment.

[@basquat76]

There was a parade through Copenhagen for him. I remember cause i was there. Some famous singer even wrote a song for him. To his credit he did just go out and admit he was juiced up to the max ten years later. But then continued to deny he had ever doped any of his riders on his team. I think he still denies it. He wasn't invited to the opening of this years tour de France here in Denmark which became kind of a story. He took cycling in Denmark to new heights but cheated. Do we invite him or not? Those big issues.

[@NightShooter87]

Of course you invite him, the guy is a legend.

[@basquat76]

@@NightShooter87 Well they didn't

[@wagenneunundvierzig]

The Riis drinking water footage is so satisfying 😂👍

[@WegrennerX]

Timestamp?

[@wagenneunundvierzig]

@@WegrennerX 2:03

[@playdory3179]

Those pinerello prince bikes were so awesome.

[@jimihendrix731]

32 going on 55 🤣

[@holmbjerg]

A lot of the information in this video isn't true.

[@EMC2Scotia]

One correction, Jalabert won Fleche Wallone in '97, not Armstrong (victor in '96)

[@needfoolthings]

WHICH Jalabert? A-haha... I make me laugh.

[@geert574]

Riis is why UCI decided to crack down more on dope because believability was at stake when a mid water carrier suddenly wins Tour because his system takes better to the dope than the more established riders. With Hinault and Fignon it was more ignored but after 6ft3 Indurain started blazing up mountains they realised more regulations were needed. Today they still dope but to lesser extent to avoid Riis and Basso incidents and UCI turns blind eye if the rider is insanely talented in the youth ranks like Pogacar.

[@Christian_Bagger]

I mean.. Bjarne did get his tour win back, as they came to the conclusion that almost the entirety of the field were doped.. probably still is. Always a race about the advancement of tech in hiding the trace of doping and catching up to detect it.

[@bobbwc7011]

He got his tour win back because his confession was after the 8 year period in which a title can be revoked. That's why Armstrong has won 0 tours and Bjarne has won 1 tour.

[@henriksrensen3220]

All riders was doped back then.

[@kasperjepsen2917]

Yeah, but somehow, according to this channel, Bjarne Riis doping was worse than anyone else.

[@clacclackerson3678]

0:59 Says it all.

[@josephkramer932]

Please do a show on Greg Lemond.

[@tannerslomko]

There may be no truth to this, but I feel like people just looked older in general back then. Bill Murray was only 33 in Ghostbusters and I always thought he was in his 40s when I was a kid.

[@T59-j7k]

Wow so what’s the problem with you calling him the bald man? It’s not a curse to be bald dude

[@captainclavicle]

I'm not bald, ok? I shaved my head. Understand?

[@playlist9980]

@@captainclavicle Ironically I misread "clavicle" as "calvicie", which is Spanish for baldness.

[@TwoWheelWarrior]

Way to go buddy!

[@tman5634]

Name & shame all those who have been found guilty of doping. Each & every one of them cheats of the most beautiful sport there is. They have tainted the sport & make people with little knowledge about it, think all riders dope. WHICH IS NOT TRUE AT ALL. As a former rider & team mechanic, they disgust me.

[@sergiobarros2697]

Man, you are too funny….loool….thx so much for these videos…i started cycling only a decade ago, even tho im 47 already, and i didnt follow those previous decades even tho i know all the names…cheersss

[@TheChiefEng]

They were all doped in the 1990s so what's the news? There are virtually no cyclists from the 1990s who were not doped up to their hairline. The problem was that nobody cared doing anything about it. That first started to happen far later.

[@cyclingstories]

Not all and not in the same way. For example, Telekom doping levels in tdf are much higher than other teams like ONCE (warning in France), Rabobank (started in 96 to experimenting, so late) or Casino (they haven't the money for doping preparations until 98) Your simple analysis is not correct and that's why i make this vids, to know all the stories.

[@Mosely2007]

@@cyclingstories very interesting videos. How many riders had health issues caused by doping? I use CBD for recovery. It works for my senior body. 7 decades on a bike so far . Still ride daily gravel 40 miles or more. I like the workout

[@meibing4912]

@@cyclingstories if facts are important to you its not confidence inspiring that you actually don't know the real story behind the bike throw. As others also have commented: The team made him ride a bike that did not work and which he was against. They even had a mechanical problem just before the start - and still sent him off on the bike which failed him and cost him so much in the race. Think he also had a puncture on top (but memory may fail me on that point). Anyway the bike he did not want and had refused at first failed - and that would make any athlete upset.

[@johnh5259]

"The RABID DOPED" Did you mean "the rabid doper" ? Please fix your title.

[@needfoolthings]

Doped is noun when used this way. It has slightly different connotations than doper which would also ve correct.

[@Ettibridget]

You mispronounced ALL the names.

[@bobbwc7011]

Ullrich turned Germany into a hardcore biking nation over night. His climb to Andorra-Arcalis is still the highest continuous power output in the Tour ever, outperforming anything Indurain ever generated, but at 10 kg less than Indurain. This is why he was called the prodigy and Kaiser. VO2max, pulse, leg length, lactate tolerance - a perfect bike riding machine. Even a few days later, up to Alpe d'Huez, he was not 100% as he said himself, because he came down with a mild cold which over the next days after Courchevel ended up becoming that disgusting infection in the Vogesen which made him have fever and diarrhea.

[@moegigo]

I think in 1997 they started with the 50% rule

[@BleakVision]

People do tend to get food proisoning when staying at hotels, you know...😉

[@seanadamson280]

There's always a Dane 🎉🎉

[@JacobafJelling]

3:11 wtf?! Is that shit real

[@playlist9980]

Could you clear this point for me? Could you confirm whether he was bald or not? You seem to sit on the fence on this.

[@RogueCylon]

All doped up, all of them.

[@blackpaint9093]

We know its you, lanterne rouge

[@Kvs-vf9nt]

This was my first tour I watched from begin to end. And I supported Ullrich offcourse. Later years I also supported Beloki and I.Gonzalez de Galdeano. I knew Armstrong was doped asf. Ulrich when he won the TDF wasn't doped. But in 97 it was the only time he was very skinny at the start of the TDF.

[@bobbwc7011]

He was doped too, but all the investigations and testimonials of his peers have described his doping to be peer pressured by external sources, and in terms of intensity as "standard programme". It was fairly amature-like based on mouth propaganda and reviews by his colleagues "Try this! It helped me for suc hand such.", "Try that, it will help you with such and such." Ullrich would have loved not to do it but his entire environment convinced him it was necessary to win. And that's not a wrong assessment in the 1990s. The Freiburg doctors were described as conservative and cautious, so the Freiburg doping programme for Telekom was not on par with US Postal. Armstrong is a completely different beast. He never fought with the same weapons and he established a doping mafia. You could say ironically, he trained harder than Jan and doped harder than Jan, knowing very well from Jan's performances in 1996, 1997 and 1998, that Armstrong COULD NEVER beat THAT Ullrich on an even playing field with amature-like doping.

[@Kvs-vf9nt]

@@bobbwc7011 I fully agree with you. And Ullrich with more training would still have beaten Lance. I really saw Ullrich never that skinny anymore as in 1997😔 In winter there was 20kg-25kg extra on him. That's alot.

[@tearitloosetearitloose4670]

Up wexford...or maybe wicklow...

[@adammillsindustries.]

This guy was a right ghoul. Horrible angry doper.

[@ssskjold]

Why do you hate Bjarne Riis so much? He wasn’t more doped than other riders in 1990s.

[@kendiesel8]

His wife was a cutie.

[@Mosely2007]

He always seemed a bit off to me. Juiced to the max. Respect your bike or WALK!

[@TimS-i4v]

Why you got to bust on bald guys?

[@pm71241]

salty

[@Chricore]

tired of hearing in his head the voice of his ex-wife hahahaha :D

[@jonaswox]

It seems you have more sympathy with all the other doped riders???? It comes off as very biased

[@commonsense31]

At least Vingegaard made redemption for his cheating behavior.

[@jdi801]

Hahaha, very funny

[@SportProgramming]

Why even talk about this, just because Jonas vingegaard is won, you have to mention this.