Lance Armstrong - 2002 TdF - Stage 12

Route: Lannemezan - Plateau de Beille
Distance: 199.5 km
Results: 1. Lance Armstrong (U.S. Postal Service)
2. Roberto Heras (U.S. Postal Service)
3. Joseba Beloki (ONCE - Eroski)
4. Santiago Botero (Kelme - Costa - Blanca)
5. Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano (ONCE - Eroski)

[@mjchrisHD]

armstrong the legend. best ever. 7 times winner of tour de france. all the other big drivers also have doped.

[@alexs5977]

mate this has not aged well at all

[@TheCasiemir]

the good old time, with Lance and Ulrich. I miss those century driver It's a shame!

[@darlulittledeer3738]

There is nobody else that rides a bike like Armstrong. He still is thrilling to watch, and such a great inspiration. I know...he is a fallen hero, but not in my book. Watching him ride helped me through some very tough times and I will never forget that. Thanks for the memories!

[@alonsoc5562]

Cheat

[@alonsoc5562]

Its obvious he even used a motor

[@francofranzese2124]

sorry you have such miths...

[@HarryMollyNut]

Well said

[@wengelder9256]

Doping is one thing , but Armstrong on many occasions made threats to anyone who would spill the beans . Awful person.

[@jasrod2012]

Look at the cadence. What an amazing cyclist. Absolute monster.

[@alessandrodorsi9800]

A drug monster

[@karl8805]

On a 39/25 aswell

[@livingbeing1113]

@@alessandrodorsi9800 Like everyone else. Lance's technique, mentality and overall preparation was still superior.

[@capthook1]

@@alessandrodorsi9800the *best of *all* the drug monsters. 🏆

[@elhior23]

Yea best cheater in the world, amazing. He cheated better then the rest.

[@trust5977]

Greatest Tour champion ever.

[@richardnascaw1237]

💯 why ulrich and pantani didn't have theyr tours stripped because they where all doped anyway , it's unfair to lance that his rivals got to keep theirs but he got stripped

[@davd1986]

@kinered LOL. Heras, Rubiera, Mayo, Vinokurov, Ullrich, all dope artists.

[@thegamersgalaxy2855]

Like the other 95% of the Peloton!

[@johnathan5291]

It’s cycling baby. Tell me cycling wasn’t better when these guys had blood the consistency of molasses

[@kqba]

He was the best. Dr. Fuentes

[@karl8805]

I miss this era so much...im so glad pogacarmstrongs here now....

[@jimkoral3824]

LOL "Beloki" That's how the substitute teacher in Keye & Peele pronounced "Blake"

[@PiotrRakowski]

Hahahahah thought the same!!!!

[@turfturbo]

When you consider that everyone is doping its a level playing field.

[@michaelmora]

No way anyone else was doping . Just him. Ha

[@fhowland]

Wrong. Doping affects everyone differently

[@why3011]

@@fhowland "Our roided up guy beat your roided up guy!"

[@fhowland]

@@why3011 they don’t use steroids they used epo

[@why3011]

@@fhowland it's a bill Burr quote, but you get the idea right?

[@RuleeeZZ]

Mistrz jest tylko jeden Armstrong! Popatrzcie jak sie kiedys jezdzilo a nie jak dzisiaj on jak atakował to nieogladał sie za siebie a te barany jak contador 1m odjedzie i głowa tylko do tyłu zamiast jechac do przodu to sie tylko ogladają i wszyscy boja sie atakować

[@chrisbatson3402]

To look that comfortable climbing alps and peryenes when making attacks. One must be on some heavy milligram drugs and perfectly timed when taking.

[@drvonnostrum2671]

Chris Batson as was everyone else in the race

[@chrisbatson3402]

@@drvonnostrum2671 yes everyone of course

[@drvonnostrum2671]

Rump Wrangler dude just stop. Of course they did roids. That’s the very thing Landis got busted for, testosterone. Go away and learn a few things

[@jeffsmith9351]

People keep saying its level. But its not lol. Teams did doping at different levels and not all bodies respond to doping equally. You people are simple minds

[@jwcurry83]

Lance was always head and shoulders above the rest... doping or not. Everyone that rode with him would agree.

[@Randomname_1337]

1:50 "Roberto Heras is just shitting there"

[@fandewow1]

très belle performance des us postal, en particulier d'Armstrong.

[@ivaeiintch]

Viv La Lance !!! Beast

[@boag46]

He definitely had his porridge that morning.

[@LesterBrunt]

yeah and what about all those legends who doped themselves up when it wasn't illegal?

[@7amoonra3]

the television station i versus.american channel.and commentary is for celebrat phil liggit

[@claudiocerruti4036]

Doped..

[@noncenter]

aupa joseba

[@blackwolves8607]

Doping

[@yairzurita9433]

Esa fue la generación del dopaje esos títulos de. Perdieron

[@jamisdelsol5761]

I prefer to see them 10kmh less with the suffering on the face today it is the 3rd generation EPO in small undetectable doses

[@mossy199]

Not even out of breath 🤣🤣🤣🤫

[@AdamBrussGoGo]

Armstrong always has the fastest cadence.

[@JUANGARCIA-se4dm]

The cadence is thanks to mechanical doping. Is using a Bluetooth controlled device... Armstrong has not told the whole truth.

[@rumpwrangler1102]

Lower gears higher cadence, look at team sky- ineos this is how they ride

[@priyankza]

Sky is basically the US Postal of the 2010s, dripping with gravy lol

[@danyplante8934]

Vvv

[@struanBrown84]

He never got to wear his team jersey because he was in yellow so much 😂

[@lashlarou9600]

Never understood why the post office got to spend tax payer dollars on a sponsorship. It's the federal gov't ffs.

[@drvonnostrum2671]

lash larou the postal service is a business that advertises like any other business

[@matthewconnelly1185]

I'm a doper and I don't care

[@feastonmyload]

Junky fan.

[@IanEdwards]

I keep saying this. I'd much rarther watch these EPO fueld races. Enrertainment.

[@DurianriderCyclingTips]

You still do in 2021 mate. All sports.

[@441milachik]

@@DurianriderCyclingTips But not to this extend when one man dominating

[@danyplante8934]

Vvv

[@AdamBrussGoGo]

Why is it that every time I look at Armstrong in these old tours I get chills. He just looks weird and different than everyone else. It's like he's more honed in than anyone else. It's like the others want to finish and he's willing to die.

[@richardmarino2732]

Adam Bruss it's called P.E.D's....performance enhancing drugs. he for what ever reason , responded really well to the benefits

[@4gegtyreeyuyeddffvyt]

Richard Marino everyone was on dope I think the fact that he almost dead is why he wasn't afraid to push himself close to death.

[@code3xiv]

Steve Allen ..he got a better dope much more then everyone.

[@raulbarragan439]

Un hp ..tramposo.quw acabo con los sueños de otros ciclistas.

[@trackie1957]

Sure he doped, but he was superbly talented, had a great team supporting him and trained better than he raced. If all it took to win the Tour was taking drugs, then there’d be a crowd on the podium. Not saying what he did was good or fair, but he was the greatest of his time.

[@alexsington]

Lance could have won this stage by 3+ minutes if he wanted to

[@joseperezpaz9986]

All Pro athletes juice

[@129pieter]

haha beloki also doped,

[@grommit700]

lance!!! great video of the tdf 2002. this climb look very tough even for a semi pro rider in the USA.

[@mtbkrdon]

For just about every positive comment about Lance’s domination in this event, there are replies of cheat…..Well you Woke Snowflakes, they all doped, have since the beginning of this, so it was a level field, and Lance, as has been documented, spent his entire year training for this event.

[@DreamClean]

He looked so comfortable​ on the bike compared to his peers. Even when pulling out a gap on them. Fantastic cadence and posture on the bike.

[@chrisbatson3402]

Because lance was on more drugs.

[@karl8805]

@@chrisbatson3402 in 02 he wasnt on any drugs.. get the facts right

[@chrisbatson3402]

@@karl8805 dude Lance Armstrong said himself to the world that " he used epo for all seven victories" where have you been?

[@KekusMagnus]

@@chrisbatson3402 he wasn't on "more" drugs, his hematocrit was constantly tested and wasn't anything unusual. "Doped more than the others" would be Jan Ulrich who abused the shit out of EPO use in the mid 90s and went from zero to her in literally one race

[@oscarlindvall1053]

@@KekusMagnus Do all your friends get similiary intoxicated on same amount of alcohol? Face it Lance was a good(not great) cyclist who happened to team up with the best doping doctor ever and then had a generational response to the dope, superresponder.

[@Avanz91]

they look as though they re pedalling on a flat road ... impressive ! they are phenomenal but nobody can keep that cadence when climbing without doping let s face it !

[@calebgonsalves2970]

*unless you shift down

[@desertrainfrog1691]

Lower gear ratio didn't cross your mind? You don't have to grind up hills.

[@Curcuma50]

hum...a High cadence IS normal for a moutain biker....you don't practice cycling...

[@kinered]

Really I miss to much the 2001- 2002 and 2003 climb stages (complete) , like this specially the incredible powers of Rubierta- Heras- Armstrong, destroying Ullrich, Vinokourov, Mayo, Beloki. Were amazing, if someboy have please uploa COMPLETE

[@armedandready9181]

Those were the great days when you didn't have to wear a helmet.

[@Avanz91]

I know ! truth hurts ! but if you knew what cycling really is you d understand that i m right !

[@boufihamid9223]

Je souhaitterai un jour de rencontrer lance amstrongue pour prendre avec lui une photo pour des meilheures souvenire du tour france

[@GardenHouseHostel1]

Amstrong the Legend

[@onefourfivefilms]

Great days. Armstrong-superb. Put these wins back in the books.

[@holdencaulfied7492]

No. He cheated and got caught. It's that simple.

[@andew024]

As did every winner after him, do you still acknowledge those victories? 🤡

[@holdencaulfied7492]

@@andew024 Everyone who got caught for cheating got busted and had their titles taken away. Why is it so difficult for people like you to deal in facts and understand this simple concept? I'll name all the cheaters who got busted after Lance: Landis and Contador. I think that's it unless I'm missing someone.

[@jackh8157]

Dang I totally forgot the tour used to be on versus

[@Ian-te2gn]

lance the G.O.A.T #7

[@AdamBrussGoGo]

Are there DVDs of the tours? Might be worth dropping the coin for high quality complete.

[@tylerfrench7197]

Adam Bruss I'd want full race DVDs to!

[@elhior23]

Lance and his doctors were just so much better at doping then the rest of the field. Must be so proud as to be the better cheater. Has to feel so good. " I was the best CHEATER IN THE WORLD." Has to feel so good.

[@TurkiyeCumhurbaskani]

Armstrong the LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!

[@wtookey]

Cornelius Maximilianus Armstrong the CHEATER!!!!!!!!!!

[@vineoliveira4260]

The juicy boy

[@DurianriderCyclingTips]

@@wtookey But you support 'cheaters' who haven't been exposed and watch the Olympics etc.

[@stevebennett6727]

It’s a spectator sport.... who really cares about the doping.? Only the french because they couldn’t get near him with their riders at the time

[@KekusMagnus]

@@stevebennett6727 their riders who also doped, just like literally 90% of the peleton. Lance was better than them AND doped. He recently claimed he would sustain 500W for these hillclimb stages, these are superhuman numbers doped or not

[@guilhemdevaux4102]

So funny to read such posts now

[@lupo7345]

:I must say that even though all are fully doped, for some reason Armstrong got the benefits of such substances were much higher than those obtained by other .... why? What kind of physiological beast is Armstrong doping him into invatible, invincible, so superior?

[@dingane]

+lupo7345 he had better and more drugs!

[@123huskieman]

lupo7345 it's not what, it's who. Dr. Ferrari.

[@karl8805]

He trained harder...he traines longer...he wanted to win more... Simple facts

[@fromopac]

💉💊💉

[@dv4662]

Only 21 years ago....no helmets, no carbon fibre. Looks a different sport.

[@speedoflite1]

cruel joke

[@valexpianist]

Lance Armstrong, simply the best cyclist of last therty years

[@holdencaulfied7492]

You can see the cheating with every pedal stroke.

[@hugohahn2791]

Allow me to correct. Lance Armstrong, simply the best doper of all time

[@alejandro94zav]

Hugo Hahn still the best of cyclist of our time. He wasn’t the only top clyclist doping back than

[@lrfixit]

You see all the weak minded that commented already. They fail to believe that everyone was doping and that the absolute better cyclist won and was the scapegoat for all those that doped because of that. Many got zero shame because they doped and were not good enough to win. Greatest of all time and one of the biggest scapegoats of all time. He won all 7 of them no matter what the rewritten books say!

[@franciscomarasigan5077]

They should put lance in one of the legend of cycling let us not be unfair to him.. Because doping ossue is until now a days is a big issue it never stop even if he confessed about doping... Let us be fair..

[@franciscolopezgarcia6964]

Imagínate lance dopado y beloki natural.....pudo cambiar el tour

[@kevincinnamontoast3669]

Lance is my spirit animal.

[@jpete3027666]

I agree, they all dope, they have to in order to bike what 2,000 miles or so in 21 days. Nobody has an advantage if they all dope. Lance is still king.

[@milesprice5471]

it would of been such a different decade for the tour de france if no one was drugging there is no reality in any of this

[@remimonsel9944]

helmet not mandatory. It was another cycling period than now.

[@malikyssead5308]

D une façon l homme critique toujours un pro cette homme avait une puissance inoui

[@johndecoite8966]

Cheat cheat cheat cheat cheat cheat cheat,. Finally caught. Should have gone to jail.

[@49inmybloodthelakeshow]

John DeCoite Really??? Jail??? For what? Do you have a car John? If you do, have you ever gone over the speed limit, ran a yellow light that you should have stopped for, didn’t come to a complete stop at a stop sign? If the answer is yes, then you have cheated the laws that a licensed driver and registered car owner are supposed to adhere to. Imagine if after 10 years you were pulled over and ticketed for every single driving infraction that you had committed in that 10 year time period. Which ultimately cost you your drivers license, which then caused you to lose your job, which then led to you being homeless, which led to your wife leaving you and getting custody of your kids. To top it all off, now imagine that all of those infraction left you with an insurmountable debt of tickets.....totaling $100,000. Now imagine that this all played out on national tv in front of everyone. You say “everyone else is speeding, running red lights, making illegal turns, and texting while driving, why am I being punished so harshly?” Imagine what the backlash of the general public would be......... No one would have sympathy for you. More importantly you would get crucified in the public eye. People would be calling for your head. People would be calling for you to go to jail for a long long time. But haven’t you suffered enough? You lost EVERYTHING. Including yourself to some degree. Isn’t that enough????? Exactly my point brother. Hasn’t lance armstrong suffered enough. He LOST EVERYTHING. They literally pretend like he was never even in the TDF. Isn’t that enough? Or does he need to hear ignorant people calling for him to be locked up. Get down off of your pedestal brother.

[@drvonnostrum2671]

You’d have to put everyone in the race in jail. You didn’t get onto a tour roster if you weren’t on the sauce

[@oh9969]

shut up

[@k-poplover6537]

GRANDE GRANDE GRANDE OTTIMO LANCE QUE DU BONHEUR

[@slowandlow6829]

Hammer climbers ... Lance and Jan

[@sabino947]

The DOPER

[@4gegtyreeyuyeddffvyt]

Sabino Mario Di Giacomo they were all dope. He was the best period!

[@code3xiv]

Steve Allen ..a better doctor, better drugs, higher amount then evryone else. A true champion lol.

[@davenatalie4221]

Armstrong is the best

[@enomikebu3503]

Wear your helmets.

[@dingdong6259]

die ersten werden die allerletzten sein

[@danyplante8934]

Vvv

[@danyplante8934]

Vvv

[@arifbaloch7660]

I Love cycles i Love Lanc armistrong

[@stonedage5087]

Ippin

[@danyplante8934]

Tousweek

[@danyplante8934]

Tousweek

[@bebopbol]

💊💉🚮

[@FTMJarra]

Even if he did (no positive test) so what....they all did, drug or no drug, he was the best of the best....always will be in my eyes, the greatest sportsman in history....I couldn't care less about doping...people need to wise up..ALL great athletes take PED's

[@SaltyTank07]

@WillhelmLerHoyt Yeah me too. I would always take off my helmet and put it in the front brake cables while I climbed. They would hold it there perfectly. Now with internal cable routing there is nothing to hold it! Not that I would anyway now days. Too many crazy drivers talking on cell phones.

[@donrackley8551]

Lance was probably the best, strongest bicycle rider ever. But every contest has rules and in order to win, you must compete by the rules. Armstrong did not play by the rules, so therefore he did not win. Maybe others would not have won either, but every contestant agrees to compete by the rules and knows the risk of getting caught is DQ.What if someone rode 10 miles, got in a car and then rode the last 10 miles, would they be allowed? What, they would not? Why not, because it in the rules that riders must ride the entire distance. That's why we have rules and rules in sporting contests should be followed and when they are not followed the rules should be enforced.

[@KekusMagnus]

And what about Miguel Indurain? did he win 5 tours de France? According to the UCI he did, but there is literally a 0% chance that he did so without doping, his performance was quite literally superhuman, and everyone he competed with later admitted to doping. He quietly retired once doping scandals started becoming more common. Lance's only mistake is one-upping him with 7 victories instead of 5. In fact, in Lance's time, drug testing was a lot more rigorous, so he doped a lot less than the madmen in Indurain's era. The rules are just a piece of paper, what actually happens is a different story

[@brignonestephane3209]

Armstrong = BIG PHARMA Armstrong = BIG PHARMA

[@munsterfloyd]

They weren't all doping! There were clean riders but they finished down the GC. The drug cheaters ruin the sport. There are young kids out there who want to emulate their "heroes" but their heroes are cheats. Shame on them.

[@filmonmeselegebre3736]

Roberto Heras a solid GC

[@yaniktydetmer4153]

Respect lance the goat

[@rooh5825]

So unfortunate how Armstrong got framed.

[@Malcom2345]

Such a dark time for cycling & then theres Lance - a special kinda beast drugs or no drugs, just too fucking good! At a time when they were all doing it in some way shape or form. Rampant in so many sports, particularly the Olympics. Lance but a scape goat. He deserved better IMHO.

[@perryroobay]

Lance is and was a narcissistic bully. I'll never ever understand you Lance and Trump apologists and your willing ignorance

[@ViElskerFCK]

The Tourminator

[@vitoditroia3444]

💉 win easy!

[@amnesia4629]

😆y avait salé la soupe 😆😉

[@danyplante8934]

Meteo

[@ugetsy]

Dope king of the mountain

[@martyd1036]

BEAST MODE

[@dvoob]

interesting to see the giant guys running friction for the FD and STI for the RD. If modern bikes allowed it I might consider the same setup today.

[@bowser_infamously]

Can you translate to English for us please? Thanks :-)

[@dvoob]

@@bowser_infamously mixed shifter for front & rear derailleur. downtube shifter for front and STI shifter for the rear.

[@mrbake6933]

What if any benefits are there to the stated setup? Appreciate your knowledge!

[@dvoob]

@@mrbake6933 at the time my assumption is that the down tube shifter was both lighter & more effective at trim vs STI front shifter options. Today it would just be for more fine tuning of trim & maybe to allow for a wider gap than the usual 14t between big & little chainrings. I don't think I'd use it for a racing setup though .

[@welshdai]

I just can’t watch this anymore knowing that Armstrong is a cheat. I love the Tour de France, and for 21 days in July I’m fixed to the TV. Armstrong robbed me of the joy I had in watching him dominate the tour for 7 years. He should have no connection with the sport. He is a scoundrel, liar and cheat!!

[@PInk77W1]

I have as many Tour de France wins as Lance

[@oldfrend]

drugs - they're a helluva drug

[@kurtmcmahon8641]

Cannot beat this guy

[@illseeyourpain]

TdF with Lance, Heras, Beloki (he had very bad luck) was much more special than now.