The Tour that RUINED and ENDED Miguel INDURAIN'S Career

Miguel Indurain as he is known to his fans Big Mig is one of the most controversial cyclists in history. He used epic methods to win in 1991 to 1995 Tour de France and been the crush of the people with a legendary performance in 1995 Cycling World Championships Road. This is the story of the super climber Miguel Indurain Early Days. Want to know what happened? We'll know more cycling tops, from road cycling news, cycling stories, British cycling, road cycling and More road cycling transfer news today on Cycling StorieS #Cycling, #Sports, #Doping

[@cyclingstories]

What a Story... Not only Doping is the enemy of professional sport

[@anatoliyveselinov7833]

Please make more videos about big Mig. There is not enough english content about this great champion.

[@andrewmurray5542]

My Big Miig story. I was on a cycling trip in 2010 in the Pyrenees and on the Wednesday of the week we were there, we decided to ride the Tourmalet from the Luz St Saveur side. It may have been a rest day for the Tour, I can't remember. It was misty all the way up until we got above the clouds and it was blue sky. At the top were TV cameras, the media and a host of tour legends including Big Mig as it was the centenaty of the first time the Tourmalet was used in the Tour and i assume there was a news report being filmed. Whilst we were taking it all in, Sean Kelly arrived clad in vintage clothing - goggles and a tyre around his shoulders - riding a 100 year old bike, having ridden up the other side. He joked it would have been much easier on the sort of bikes we were on. We had a chat with him, he was very friendly and posed with us for a photo. Then i spotted Big Mig getting onto a team Sky spare bike and he started to descend the other side, the side that leads to Saint Marie de Campan. I thought to myself that I'm going that way too, i might as well try to follow and i did. Amazing seeing him ride a bike in person. Luckily for me there was a bit of traffic that slowed him down so i was able to watch him from about 15-20 metres back. I kept a respectful distance (i couldn't keep up if i wanted to!) just so i could watch how he descended and handled a bike. Funny to watch people's faces as they realised who it was riding down - him not me, ha ha. It really was an amazing experience. When we reached the bottom, as he slowed down iI was alongside for a few hundred metres and I said thank you. He just looked and smiled before we stopped and he was surrounded by the media. I just got off my bike and thought 'i just descended the Tourmalet with Big Mig! Was that a dream?' No, it really happened. I will never forget that day.

[@ianfurqueron5850]

I remember watching Big Mig when I first started following road cycling. He was so dominate, yet so quiet about it. Hopefully he has managed to find peace in retirement. He sure as hell earned it.

[@S2Sturges]

I met Miguel, and many other pros before the start of the Tour at Futuroscope in 1990, moat of the riders were out just doing laps around the place and having a chat with each other. There was a hole in the fence where riders were going in and out offend I staked a claim there, camera in hand. I got photos of so many riders but Miguel took the moment to stop and give me a genuine smile for me as I exchanged greetings with him in extremely rusty Spanish .. what struck me was how tranquil, genuine and open he seemed, so much more so than any other of the dozens I met there

[@jerrychicken967]

I was cycling near Benidorm when that Vuelta was on and saw Miguel out on his bike a couple of times. He was in his team kit but cut a lonely figure. My Mate came out with me the second time and we both saw Miguel. Think Mig was out having a good think and then I heard he retired when I got home. He did give a whistle to me when I passed him going the other way. So...never think you're too good to acknowledge other bike riders, on the road, as even a five times winner says Hi. ;)

[@sneakyfox4651]

I've had a copule of similar experiences. In 2020, a few days before the national road championship was held not so far from my home, I was out on my single-speed, grey hair and owerweight, and all, when one of the pro riders came buzzing the other way, chasing cars at 60+ Km/h, but anyway he greeted me, the old amateur at 25 Km/h. Another time, when I was a bike messenger, standing and talking to an off-duty collegue in central Copenhagen, the former Pro rider Brian Holm, who happened to know my collegue, stopped to have a little chat. Instinctively he checked out my bike, and when he saw that it was a fixi without brakes, he first just looked at me and then gave me a professional approval nod. I felt very proud right then.

[@justjase1576]

I started watching Indurain in the 90s, regardless of what we all think about that era, he got me into bike racing and I'll never forget that 1992 TDF 65km Time Trial in Luxembourg. Absolute demolition of everybody.

[@blindauditionguy6532]

I love this channel thanks for giving us best cycling classic stories

[@Valentijnvs]

I attended Indurain's farewell tour in Tenerife as a very small kid. Not sure what it was, an exhibition or something setup just for his retirement, but many big riders were there. I was there with my dad, and as Indurain passed at the front of the peloton, everybody along the barriers held out their hand to touch his as he passed. My dad held me up so I could stick our my hand too. After the race my dad told me and everyone around that I had touched Indurain's hand. He was so exited, I did not dare to tell him that my arm was actually too short, and he touched all hands around me as he passed, except mine.

[@aceventuraaceventura2003]

Miguel Indurain was a classic champion of TDF. So many great riders in the 90's like Zulle, Rominger, Pantani, Jalabert, and even Greg Lemond!

[@coreplay5251]

Another great video showing us different problems of cycling

[@sealcycle2020]

This guy was such a BEAST!!!!! He was beyond incredible.

[@oscarlindvall1053]

Beyond doped, Armstrong before Armstrong but not as vile of a person(seemingly atleast) so he got away free.

[@buddhaboy-]

Indurain came across as humble and steady…a real war horse! I really enjoyed watching him ride and his presence in the peloton. Another force if nature…🔥

[@damienduff1219]

I know this voice... Didn't you have af Harry Potter-channel once? Always enjoyed those vids! :D

[@jackhargreaves1911]

My favourite cycling channel. Politics and the abuse of athletes by team directors and doctors remain a major problem in the sport. Athletes are disposable commodities as far as many teams are concerned. Doping is just one example (EPO abuse staggers cardiologists with its dangers, yet team doctors seem to have no problem administering it). Another example is sex abuse in the Women’s sport. But the modern trend of enforced starvation is now the great under-reported scandal. It is as dangerous to the heart as EPO. One leading British rider in the peloton (thinner than a garden rake) is limited to eating red meat twice a year by his team. WTF? I love the sport but I am disgusted by what it is doing to riders. Yes, riders must take responsibility for agreeing to dope and (now) starve, but they are young and ambitious. Young ambitious men (emotionally still boys, really) don’t think straight (in my experience, young women think straighter about such matters but can still end up going along with the self-abuse - and the abuse by men in power - to keep doing what they love doing). I too was in the position of many young riders in my own sport, and being young I thought nothing bad would happen to my health if I did what my fellow competitors were doing. I was wrong and now I suffer the consequences. I take full responsibility for my actions but I won’t forget that the person who gave me the drugs initially (for free…) was a leading official. Please keep highlighting the abuses in this beautiful sport. I wish someone was doing the same in boxing. Perhaps give some riders the benefit of the doubt when it comes to how much of the drug abuse was down to them and how much to their team. Eg one rider you have highlighted more than once elsewhere isn’t very bright mentally, and was easily persuaded to go bad ways. It wrecked his life but the sport turned its back on him. Let’s show the DS’s for what they are (clue: it’s all about money).

[@CandyGirl44]

Limiting red meat is not abuse, it's the only sane thing to do. Besides the fact that its production is barbaric and merciless, it's driving climate change, environmental damage, the destruction and pollution of seas, rivers, lakes and oceans, the wiping out of wildlife, contributing to world humger, all should revert to a plant based diet. If the top tennis player and Formula 1 driver in the world can do it, plus numerous other top athletes, anyone can.

[@MitchVanVit]

giving up red meat is not that awfull or cruel, is it? I'd like to see a crazy chanel like this wonderfull one, on Triathlon dopers... Could be golden, maybe some doctors in common with cycling?

[@l.rongardner2150]

It would be interesting to see a study that informs us whether professional bodybuilders or professional cyclists have more PEDs in their bodies.

[@ascensoycaida3792]

I missed you these days Irish legend

[@ccjelley2390]

Ultimately they're paid to advertise products. I think the pharmaceutical industry is missing a trick here.

[@ruimartins1676]

Indurain was the most elegant rider I ever seen on a bike

[@y-sdahms212]

Are you blunt?

[@andrewmurray5542]

Man and machine in harmony. I rode down the Tourmalet behind him (see my comment about the experience) and he still looks perfect on a bike. Incredible, completely natural.

[@blackpaint9093]

Ullrich >

[@TwoWheelWarrior]

Way to go buddy!

[@jerrychicken967]

One more thing, I know he was at the start of the EPO era but prior to EPO, blood doping was commonplace. Blood doping wasn't even against the rules until after 1985

[@eudardopadilla7093]

He did nof fail to install his sixth tour, he was sabotaged against it, did you not know of all the extravagant offers his best gregarios had to leave him alone?

[@Mau4ever2]

What about making some videos with some of riders who doped in the in the later years (To name a few:Mustafa Sayar,Thomas Frei,Óscar Sevilla,Victoria Baranova) There's also a few classical stories from the 1970s&1980s (Hint: Bad Fish & Tour de Columbia (Sponsored by the Columbian Cartels) that could be told. /Both L.Fignon&G.Lemond has writen about what happend in the 80s&90s regarding the "unhuman" behaviour in the Peletons

[@eprohoda]

brroth~incredible !talk you later.💪

[@alexanderishere1857]

The narrator is such a hypocrite. Indurain was pumped full of doping during all his wins. For other riders he makes a big deal out of the unnatural of a large guy being good in the mountains, but no mention of the big Indurain and his miraculous merits in the mountains.

[@hpvspeedmachine4183]

4:47

[@andrewmurray5542]

😳😁😁😁

[@gheorghefalcaru]

LOVE YOU BIG MIG!!!!!!!! A TRUE MASTER!

[@connorduke4619]

Moral of the story: never allow anyone to force you to do something against your will. Better to quit, pay out any contract damages and live with a clean conscience.

[@fibonaccisrazor]

That's definitely the way to do it!

[@gregoryrowlerson8457]

Did that incident at 4:48 also end that podium girls career?

[@timdowney6721]

She certainly didn’t look happy. Sure can’t blame her. I’ll bet every one of them checked the trophies before getting up there.

[@walayanzaloloco3670]

This was the moment he decided to quit doping.

[@jpmtlhead39]

The man you won more Tours with less stage victories. But a Great Champion.

[@deathkampdrone]

4:47 watch your head! :D

[@alves81]

Legend

[@nickboyden3997]

First time I've ever heard him described as controversial.

[@alainbellemare2168]

Apparently this guy could not change a flat. Tire

[@sparx550]

A friend of Dr Conconi, I smelt a rat after 1991 when lemond was a the height of his powers and indurain and all the others were suddenly taking minutes out of riders in TT’s and in the mountains. A good friend of Armstrong, that says it all.

[@holmbjerg]

Lemond wasn't at the height of his powers though. He was in 1986, not in 1991 suffering from the effects of the gunshot wound. Both in 1989 and 1990 he won very close races, only taking the yellow jersey towards the very end of the race.

[@beccy1010]

If my memory is correct from Winning Cycling magazine I think, Indurain had a resting heart rate of 28 bpm, a heart big enough to pump 55 liters of blood per minute ( at max heart rate ), lungs that hold 8.5 liters of air and he could climb a hill at maximum heart rate and once at the top could be down to 60 bpm in 60 seconds. The man doesn't need drugs.

[@JulioLeonFandinho]

you just had it all wrong pal, I hope you feel comfortable with yourself being such an asshole

[@bimfred]

@@beccy1010 ha!!

[@tomchernota8051]

Wow..

[@liamhotspur9182]

Well, you bet he got payed very well at Banesto all the years before. Thats life, thats sports...

[@mrloop1530]

Man the tour was boring during his reign. Trash everybody in the TT's and just defend with a superior team in the mountains. It was such a refreshment, when Pantani won in '98. Or even Riis in '96. Armstrong and Froome were almost as boring as Indurain. It's so much more exciting with Pogacar and today's riders. Btw; I doubt there has ever been a clean winner of the TdF. And the sport would be so much more exciting without doping. Without doping, I think the results would be much more varied. Oh and radio-communication is also an unfortunate addition to make the races much more controlled and boring, and relying to little on instinct and intuition. Just as with the wattmeters.

[@HkFinn83]

Ok boomer

[@deanokelly29]

Greg lemomd was clean

[@wendklenff133]

@@deanokelly29 lol never.

[@xosece]

@@wendklenff133 yes he was. He was born gifted with a crazy VO2 max, and this comes from an Indurain fan. Gotta admit that while not caught Indaruin maybe used EPO or whatever, although he still was a force of nature without it

[@TheKZOShow]

Cycling in the 90's is the most hypocritic sports era ever. Incredible how riders were later crucified for admitting doping when a guy like Indurain was so clearly doping himself to even have the slimmest chance at winning anything that wasn't a TT. The clearest sing to someone doping, especially with EPO, is when the either appear out of nowhere or disappear. Pantani was away for months at a time if not years and then destroyed everybody, only to not be seen due to "injury", Indurain was a big man and suddenly became a top 5 climber while not loosing any of his power, only to get completely destroyed in 1996 and him looking like a completely different rider. Chris Froome went over night from being the absolute worst bike-handler and rider in cycling history to the best climber and GC-rider when it came down to time trails and now at Israel (I know he's had injuries) he can't even get on the bike. But oh no Bjarne Riis cheated so much, and so did Ulrich and Armstrong, while Pantani, who literally killed himself with doping and drugs is a saint. Virenque NEVER cheated when the entire team around him did so he didn't do anything wrong, only the Telekom guys cheated. Retarded how it can be so one-sided and idiotic this sport.

[@drunkensailor112]

Indurain was already a beast rider and climber in the 80s at young age and Pantani at age 17 in 87 was already dropping pros on climbs like flies. You can even find videos on that in KZbin. Both were natural talents of the most extreme kind.

[@TheLemon333]

And they're still mismanaging their team. No?

[@fumanpoo4725]

El Dopero!

[@Gary-le7dz]

Anything cycling pre 2010 Lemond fignon hinault Armstrong eras are hard to believe anyone drugs were so rife

[@EMC2Scotia]

Forced or not, the TDF that year had shown Big Mig had lost it in the mountains. Prepared to his peak for the Tour, not so interested at the Vuelta, the output was pretty much the same. Was he forced, was he invited? They both sound like excuses and misdirection from the fact the decline had begun without anyone expecting it.

[@hisdadjames4876]

Isn’t this Big Mig sob story out of keeping with the channel’s normal piercing tone? Had he run out of ‘motivation’ or just run out of ‘motivational aids’ and other such marginal gains from a bag or bottle? Just asking. 🤔

[@Ettibridget]

The years with Induration were also rather boring ... Did he ever admit doping?

[@petem5050]

No he hasn't while everyone around him admitted to EPO use in that era just like armstrong's era.

[@pichihimunoz2891]

The Miguel Carcaño of cycling

[@mytyhekiller4]

Outdoped

[@timw4369]

he ran out of EPO probably he didnt have anything left to give. Im sure he knows his wins were not clean. He probably has to live with this the rest of his life.

[@MarcraM82]

correct!

[@Bkh0498]

The whole peloton was juiced I bet he doesn’t give a crap neither would i

[@franz009franz]

these motorcycles pulling rofl

[@MS-un9zq]

IF YOU are Spanish...you ride the Vuelta....period....what really killed many careers and cycling....is EPO...

[@cyclingstories]

Indurain only rode Vuelta in 96 since 1991

[@codino97]

vuelta used to be in april and indurain did giro tour instead of the vuelta

[@twowheelstouring482]

So big mig who once famously claimed eating 1kg of natural yoghurt daily was behind his success, not his association with the worst doctor in cycling history! Im not surprised he 'quietly' retired.

[@drunkensailor112]

Indurain was already a beast in the 80s at a young age without epo.

[@nishiki7047]

@@drunkensailor112 But add a bit of juice and he was unbeatable

[@nishiki7047]

Who was his doctor ?

[@JulioLeonFandinho]

what association? Because all of what you're thinking about happened after Indurain reign, did you know that? No, you didn't Indurain was never proved to be involved in the affairs with that doctor, others were, like Festina riders, guys like Rijs and so on... and those were proved. A group of about 50 people were proved to be dirty, none of them was Indurain 🤡🤡🤡💩💩💩

[@peterwest5525]

Looks more like bronchitis was the problem. As has happened to many riders,

[@nishiki7047]

Mr 60 💉

[@CarloFromaggio]

“Even now I believe in his (Armstrong) innocence. He has always respected all the rules," Indurain told Radio Marca in Spain.🤣 Likely, just like Armstrong, Indurain’s doping team stayed ahead of what was being tested for. Bad day, maybe. Great rider, definitely. Doped to the gills in previous victories, most probably. LeMond was the last great clean rider free of doubts.

[@andyclarke3627]

Lemond has plenty doubts. Not only that he is a monumental whinger.

[@andyclarke3627]

Lemond has plenty doubts. Not only that he is a monumental whinger.

[@satanklaux]

I have not doubt that lemond was doped as hell

[@alimac1968ify]

A man marginally less interesting than his bike (forget whose quote this was). Was only finally beaten by Rjis because Rjis took even more EPO.

[@kasperrieberg3495]

Most boring tour winner of all time