Lance Armstrong - Road to Paris

[@MerlinMan1579]

He shouldn't, but still watching him inspires me more than any other rider. I don't condone what he did for one minute, but I find he makes me want to get out there and ride.

[@McLuo69]

I don't give a damn what ppl think bout Armstrong, no one is perfect not even ppl leaving nasty comments bout our American hero, thanks for all those wonderful memories Armstrong!

[@H3llofromearth]

Nothing has changes for me. He is still a hero in my eyes.

[@andybeazy]

Lance you are still and always will be my hero

[@ItsdHoff]

Thanks so much for putting this up...it was on here before but disappeared. Cheers dude.

[@graylobo133]

I used to watch religiously when it first came on dvd to hype me up to go riding. Now I see it and just think what kind of bs they were brewing. Hincapie too.

[@daveyork0]

Best of the Dopers. An absolute legend.

[@kiely4561]

this might be a controversial thing to say, but i don't give a shit that he doped, he still inspires me to get on my bike

[@santiagobenites]

kiely 456 That's sad.

[@kiely4561]

no..its my opinion, if you don't like it quite frankly i don't give a shit son

[@moneroelt]

kiely 456 it does matter that he doped, but i agree he can be an inspiration despite the fact he doped... but the lies and the bullying, doesn't make it better..

[@Tuggers1986]

+kiely 456 At the time all of the top riders were doping. Meaning that it was an even field. He didnt gain an unfair advantage. They all had that advantage and he was the best of the lot

[@santiagobenites]

Tuggers1986 What he WAS the 'best of the lot' at was fraud, lying, deceiving, bullying, and perjury. Oh, and getting busted.

[@GlennLHumphrey]

He changed the sport, the way teams trained and the tactics used, the recon done pre-race all through the year. Nobody had ever approached the sport like Armstrong. They created a blue-print that every team and athlete now follow. Armstrong was one of the first athletes to use a wind tunnel to get the most aerodynamic position and equipment possible. Now everyone uses a wind tunnel! He elevated the sport to new levels.

[@jojocastano4526]

He is a legend in tour de france nobody ever can match him as 7 times world cycling champ....Idolize by many....your the man.....

[@andybrook-dobson726]

eh? He DIDN'T win the world championship 7 times! The records show he didn't even win 7 TdFs!!!

[@vernefits1953]

Great video 👍

[@VenancioPineda]

It is always the same: a lot acusate and no one proofs. This was a nice video about sport and I'm happy to have seen it. Gives me power.

[@yannick245]

you are absolute right!

[@guntherleonhardt9425]

I love Lance Armstrong too. I became a pharmacist because of him.

[@T3vAJT5N]

"Training in this weather, nobody sees that." Pretty much says it all about the top of the elite in anything.

[@jpb10]

regardless of the current situation, very insightful documentary

[@Adriaanleroux]

Still a legend and you know it...

[@neuslach]

Great cyclist and person. A fan from the Netherlands.

[@ThArchon]

Truly legend

[@livibam]

They all dope! so it's fair game...

[@wjmoreira]

SHOWWWW VERY GOOD!!!!!

[@martinwilson2660]

My hero. Now an ex hero.

[@soobeng]

WOW....mind boggling. What a great video. and a great man.

[@AltF4Moments]

Thank YOU Dude

[@andreshapkido]

lance armstrong the best ever

[@Sunshine45045]

LANCE ARMSTRONG IS THE BEST CYCLIST AND IS THE BEST EXAMPLE FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAS LOST THEIR DREAMS. HE IS A LEGEND. HE TAUGHT AND FOLLOW TEACHING TO GET UP AND DO WHAT YOU WANT IN SPITE OF AN ILLNESS. THE ATTITUDE IS GOING TO TAKE YOU TO CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN.

[@arunvaradhachary6321]

No matter what, bike racing is a beautiful sport.

[@MultiMetaldemon]

Legend

[@AfroPoli]

1996 - Riis = EPO 1997 - Ullrich = EPO² 1998 - Pantani = EPO³ 1999 - Armstrong = EPO⁴ Still, I love this guy. He is a hero. Don't think any of the other EPO aces trained as hard as he did.

[@graylobo133]

lance eats his epo enfuse banana at the end. i dont care, i watchd this video a hundred times and made me fall in love with cycling!

[@nightowl8936]

A fair and honest and balanced view. Lance is still a giant. Always will be.

[@oitotheworld23]

thank youuuu!!!!

[@greggg34]

Great video thanks for post ;-)

[@sabbat34]

600+ tests and never tested for ANYTHING. Nor Hincapie -Lance is a success and inspiration.

[@arnovandenhende424]

HERO !

[@Croupier23]

Great Soundtrack during the Amstel Gold Race scenes

[@nirajsharma8921]

great soundtrack actually.

[@foampositemax]

Anybody knows the titles of the soundtracks used in this documentary?

[@StaceySchroederCanada]

I find it funny when all the haters keep watching the videos of a true legend. Go watch IFBB or WWE videos when nobody does anything wrong.

[@GardEngebretsen]

Yep, he was the best of the riders at that time - they all were doped.

[@WithBACON]

Blood doping refers specifically to transfusing blood (in these days, your own stored blood, to avoid detection) to boost hematocrit. Other forms of doping are simply called "doping".

[@mambac7]

lance never actually tested positive for anything during the 7 years he won the tour, he is the greatest, and will forever be the greatest cyclist of all time.

[@bazbee]

To reparaphrase the intro 'If you wish to be behind, act as though you were out front'. Not only is he behind, since yesterday he was written off UCI's history books.

[@FreeMTrider]

I don't give a shit what anyone thinks, he still won and worked hard to do it. He has been a winner since age 15. If he cheated, he didn't start it. Ask Indurain about that. LeMond even says it himself. Everything changed at that point.

[@c-record]

@46:14 by 'bootcamps' he means 'special preparation' (more intense training and critically timed EPO injections for the final build up to the TdF)

[@TurkiyeCumhurbaskani]

I love Lance Armstrong, I became a cyclist because of him, guy is a legend my hero. I don't care how other people think or feel.

[@rgorjon9]

not everyone dopes stop commenting if thats all you have to say. just cause one person wins doesnt mean he doped he could have easily been set up and no one deserves this much criticism when they devote their whole lives to become good at what they love.

[@jokerhong123]

lance time trial bike is head 3 and mavic disc wheel set thats nice

[@lozwebb555]

Haha I like the bit at 9mins 30sec when the guy talks about the home made apple pies. "It's all the little things that make the difference". Yeah, sure...the little things ;)

[@TurkiyeCumhurbaskani]

LEGEND!!!! Lance is a true hard core cyclist, the best ever

[@jccastillo1682]

YEAH

[@philg1440]

Doping is wrong, but I can honestly say that even though he doped like everyone else, he still kicked their butts. He trained for those wins. He trained like a boss and dominated all the other dopers. I'm not on the Lance bandwagon, but give credit where credit is due. Like Jim Mac said, when in Rome.

[@ryanboer5769]

lance dopestrong!!!

[@GardEngebretsen]

Cool story bro :) Hushovd, Boasson Hagen og mange andre syklister har kommet opp uten å bruke prestasjonsfremmende midler.

[@leipner]

If you wish to be out front, then dope Armstrong, louis. 21st Century A.C.

[@GoldeneSpeichen]

@GlennLHumphrey Mind that throughout the year he only focused on the Tour de France, everything else was just training for him. Le Mond and Indurain did the same.

[@steveo7220phx]

i don't know what to think any more

[@altern8ive]

doping or not who cares about the past, if the majority were doing it at the time then they were all competing on a more or less even level. it's uploads like this that still draw your attention to the unbelievable human effort and sacrifice involved to partake in the big tours and classics.

[@wjmoreira]

VIVA O LANCE!!!!!!

[@SrSlicky]

I think all of you guy's who are talking shit about Lance should THINK before writing anything. First of all he was never caught with hard evidence, his opponents did. Second of all, in most years (except 2003) he won by almost TEN minutes... in front of those who actually tested positive. Lance never tested positive. Even if he dopped, the only thing people can say is that he was the best dopper. Assuming he did it, they were all in the same circumstances. And he won... by miles away.

[@jps8889]

great book..everyone must read 'The Secret Race"

[@kirinlager49]

51:47 "When the soup is good, all is good" Ingredients: EPO Coritcosteroids Testosterone Andriol Half a litre of blood Human growth hormones

[@kolombi88]

No matter what any body says lance is a hell of a cyclist he probably did dope but who didnt is just like baseball everybody takes them but no body says nothing and on top of that the amount of work and hard training this guy has done over the years try taking drugs and sit on your ass and see if you can even finish the tour is no easy work no matter what you do..go lance!!

[@GlennLHumphrey]

Whatever your opinion of his career, during the era in which he raced, there is no disputing that he changed the way cyclists prepared for racing...forever.

[@mhorva90]

Merckx has condemned doping but he tested positive three times.[4] The first time was in the 1969 Giro d'Italia[6] where he tested positive for the stimulant Reactivan at Savona, after leading the race through 16 stages

[@MenchovLance]

Is history more great

[@leafs173]

he still worked his ass off and overcame cancer, I agree he doesn't deserve the victories though but not many riders of that time do

[@jinjaacqhofheim5648]

No,the dop was in one of the bus driver shoe

[@grilled15]

"Nobody sees that" - you're right Johan, nobody saw that...for a long time.

[@theFithWheel]

whose says I cant ride, now i want to even more!

[@4schutter]

Lance, we still believe... no drugs...

[@KelpStalker]

Not a Lance Fan but he was superhuman, I was reading about him when he 16 beating up pro triathletes.

[@realx09]

LANCE, SUPPORT TO THE END !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MarekoTuli]

Reading these comments, I'm really starting to get angry. Lance Armstrong still put in the work and most athletes are doing some form of doping. All sports have this problem, but these are just tools they use. Drugs don't make champions. Cut the man some slack, and do not call him a psychopath.

[@MrDanielFarr]

EPO or no EPO.... you go up Alp D'Huez twice in the same day - you are hard!

[@rdb203]

I think it's incredibly naive of those who say that because he never failed a test he wasn't doping. Firstly, there are several reason to believe he DID fail tests (for instance the 1999 test). Secondly, Marion Jones was tested 160 times over her career and never failed. She went to jail after she fully admitted she had doped her entire career.

[@SaKuLification]

good doped

[@henriqueOvermelho]

9'52'', forgot to show the EPO vials he kept in the top shelf of the freezer :-)

[@johnnydallas9212]

15:25 TREK TT BIKE IS THE COOLEST EVER 😎

[@brilleaben]

I assume footage of the blood transfusions will be a part of DVD extras. Maybe an easter egg.

[@georgebrown3128]

"What if i keep going?"/ "There is no way you can"/ "Who says that?"

[@gostraighthrough]

If USADA says Lance was using illegal drugs, then I have to believe them. But if you think that Lance is just yourself plus drugs then you have a very big idea about yourselves, without proving it to anyone. So instead of been hateful respect the man for the things he achieved and the things he has offered to cancer victims. He has made some choices and he will live with the consequences but trust me, Lance knows about choices in his life. May you make better choices.

[@EzioASMR]

I am in favour of a healthy diet, I am in favour of nutritional supplements... for everything else I have no words to add...

[@tritonsmasher]

Lots of the finishers also doped, so it's still in a way a level playing field. What lance did was just to dope better than them. Doesn't change the fact that he did cheat, but a lot of people seem to think that just because he did, all his accomplishments mean nothing. Livestrong's still done great things for cancer, and he still out-classed all the other (doping) riders.

[@MrMightymitch1]

if you wish to be out front.... dope ha

[@amk68sco]

i personally think he retired to early,he won 7 could so easily have been 9.legend.

[@sabbat34]

I agree -people are very harsh on winners. Also -people are generally racist when it comes to white american texans. Lance Armstrong is my hero and got me into cycling.

[@PaulVarella]

Too bad he was dirty. A fantastic athlete who could have inspired all of us.

[@PaulVarella]

***** I respect your opinion and there is probably some truth to it. I disagree that all do/did cheated. I would never, though, tell my kids, go ahead cheat, everyone does it, - in sports, school, in life, your spouses. I cannot tell my boy, just go on lying, it is OK. The part of the video that the fiercely defends being clean turns my stomach upside down; and then explain how this is a very family oriented sports!!! Well society has shown him the disapproval (regardless of the immense amount of hypocrisy in all).

[@3rdeddie]

Nah bro, he doped.

[@sergioreprezente]

those guys make a lot of sacrifices to succeed. i think people have to respect them. i'm french and i know the "tour de france" a cheater can win it one time but not seven times.

[@9929125]

@waynerooney960 LIKE A BOSS!!!

[@1972dsrai]

The doping Armstrong did would not have had the impact and 7 tdf wins if he wasn’t the hardest working and most dedicated cyclist of all. It was just one of many elements, all equally important that gave him the edge over all other riders who were doping to the same degree or even more.

[@hzuhairy]

Even if he did dope, it's still a pretty inspiring story...

[@leipner]

Lance for god sake!

[@SLDjkid]

"This is my body, and I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it. Study it. Tweak it. Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I’m on. What am I on? I’m on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?"

[@GardEngebretsen]

Both.

[@MyMetroPolice]

EPOstrong

[@RosT182]

47:13 Was the dog trained for the specific goals to detect?

[@jps8889]

Apparently the blood transfusions didn't make the final cut.

[@lashlashlashlashlash]

Det er nå de fleste diskusjoner på internett går over i drittslengning og absurde argumenter. Fint at det finnes skikkelige folk her også:) Gleder meg bare til April jeg, da skal Hushovd vinne Paris- Roubaix!

[@4Primi]

ANYONE! Please help me find the theme song, the one that plays in the beginning??