This Will NEVER Happen Again! || The DOPED DONKEY who DESTROYED Indurain

The 1996 Grand Boucle was the 83rd edition of the Grand Boucle, starting on 29 June and ending on 21 July, featuring 19 regular stages, 2 individual time trials, a prologue and a rest day (10 July). It was won by Danish rider Bjarne Riis.
This competition was noted by the "fall" of favorite Miguel Indurain, ending his record run of five consecutive victories. The course included a stage through his home town Villava, however he suffered a bronchitis because of the poor weather in the first week, and was fined and penalised for accepting drinks illegally. Indurain started to lose time in stage 7, and finally ended 11th failing to win a single stage or spend one day in the yellow jersey.
Stage 9 was scheduled to be a 176 kilometer ride from Val-d'Isère to Sestriere. However, due to appalling weather conditions, including snow, the organizers cut the stage to just 46 km. Bjarne Riis won the stage and opened a crucial 44 second gap over Telekom teammate Jan Ullrich. Ullrich, only 22, really broke through in this Tour, and won the individual time trial of stage 20.
Over a decade after the race, several riders with Team Telekom confessed to doping offences around the period of the 1996 tour, including support riders Rolf Aldag, Udo Bölts, Christian Henn and Brian Holm and team masseur Jef d'Hont has admitted in his autobiography that there was organised use of EPO in the team. On 24 May 2007, Erik Zabel admitted to using EPO during the first week of the race. The winner of the Yellow Jersey, Bjarne Riis, admitted on 25 May 2007 that he also used EPO during the race, as a result was asked by the International Cyling Union (UCI) to return the yellow jersey he received. So far, runner-up Jan Ullrich, who has been under suspicion of doping as a part of the Operación Puerto doping case, has not commented on allegations that he also used EPO. Third place Richard Virenque and fourth place Laurent Dufaux were implicated in the 1998 Festina scandal.
UCI lawyer Philippe Verbiest stated in 2007 that the statute of limitations for removing Riis as winner of the Grand Bouclé had expired, "you cannot strip him of the title but it possible not to mention it anymore ... Because of what he admitted, he is not the winner of the Grand Bouclé. Riis did not win." At the same time tour spokesman Philippe Sudres stated that: "We consider philosophically that he can no longer claim to have won." In 2007, Riis' victory was removed from the Grand Bouclé, yet in 2008 they listed Riis as winner of Grand Bouclé 1996, albeit with a remark about his confession.
Intro 0:00-1:05
Main Favourites 1:05-3:24
Banesto’s Doping Issues 3:24-4:50
Prologue Zulle (ITT) 4:50-8:00
Stage 1 Moncassin 8:00-9:20
Stage 2 Cipollini 9:20-10:12
Stage 3 Zabel 10:12-11:21
Stage 4 Saugrain 11:21-13:14
Stage 5 Lance Armstrong Punchs Rival 13:14-14:46
Stage 6 Lance Armstrong Dropped 14:46-16:46
Stage 7 Miguel Indurain Breakdown 16:46-28:37
Stage 8 Berzin (ITT) 28:37-34:40
Stage 9 Riis Sestrieres 34:40-40:36
Stage 10 Ullrich Attack (Zabel) 40:36-43:33
Stage 11 Chepe Gonzalez 43:33-45:17
Stage 12 Pascal Richard 45:17-46:33
Stage 13 Virenque Attack (Sorensen) 46:33-51:03
Stage 14 Doped Adboujaparov 51:03-52:27
Stage 15 Old Doped Pondenzana 52:27-53:47
Stage 16 Doped Riis Hautacam 53:47-01:01:17
Stage 17 Queen Stage Dufaux vs Riis 01:01:17-01:11:03
Stage 18 Bart Voskamp 01:11:03-01:12:16
Stage 19 Moncassin 01:12:16-01:13:02
Stage 20 Ullrich Destroys Riis 01:13:02-01:17:04
Stage 21 Baldato and Outro 01:17:04-01:18:40

[@cyclinghighlights]

We're back! Hope you'll enjoy this documentary! Thanks for supporting!

[@wraith8323]

Welcome back! Ive been quietly checking for new videos, esp with a possibly DOPED Tour underway 🤗🤗🤗

[@polarbear2335]

Nice work. Looking forward to a 97 tour summary.

[@JuanDiegoPinillos]

And right on time you're back, we're having a very doped Tour right now!!

[@freenational]

​@@JuanDiegoPinillos, really?

[@TheMrbc74]

Amazing how indurain has quietly been allowed to escape the stench of doping when it’s obvious to anyone who follows cycling that he wasn’t winning clean when all those around him have either confessed or been caught

[@No_mans_flies]

Of course he was doping. I think it wasn’t as obvious with him because he didn’t ride off from people in the mountains, he did it in the time trials. Made him look more human. But he would have been doping with the best of them.

[@JG-xk7ve]

@@No_mans_fliesthe only one who really got punished, I.e. Armstrong, gut punished not for doping, but for his arrogance

[@No_mans_flies]

@@JG-xk7ve yeah for sure, all of the top riders from that era were juiced to the gills

[@mattyctill]

​@JG-xk7ve and to be perfectly honest, I don't weep for him that he seemingly took the brunt for doping. He earned by far and away the most from it. Plus, as you say it was the arrogance, complete narcissist was Lance Armstrong. He made gas lighting and artform. Probable sociopath.

[@gonzogeorgism2712]

@@No_mans_flies It‘s not the time trialing that‘s the tell tale with Indurain. With his size, you could argue that it makes sense that he would have a big gap on competitors in the time trial. The tell tale with Indurain was the fact he was able to do as well in the mountains as he did given his size. He had the same BMI as Cancellara (~23) and yet he was somehow able to do so well in the mountains that he was basically a shoe-in for the GC given his time trialing. This is also the major red flag for Lance. For all the talk about his „transformed body“ after cancer, he had a BMI (~24) that was a full point higher than Indurain‘s and Cancellara‘s- and yet he was able not only to be competitive in the mountains, but able to drop much thinner riders on a consistent basis. (Just to drive this point further, Roche also won with a BMI of ~24 that was actually a tick higher than Lance‘s.) To be good enough in the mountains to credibly win the Tour clean, your BMI should be no higher than 21. (Rounded down.) Of course someone winning with a BMI of 21 or less isn‘t a guarantee that they‘re clean; Mr. 60 won with a BMI of 21. But if someone wins with a BMI that‘s 22 or higher, that‘s a serious red flag that you‘re doping.

[@mountaintruth1deeds533]

Can y'all imagine this guy and Phil Liggett both on commentary....that would have been epic and hilarious...

[@tannerslomko]

I love how you come off as filled with contempt for cycling as well as a true super fan who loves the sport more than almost anything. That’s the sweet spot.

[@giovannimontanari9683]

The sheer amount of disdain, snarkiness, and cynical disgust in your video makes me cry laughing. You've earned yourself a sub.

[@abdul-kabiralegbe5660]

This is what I love about the channel!😂

[@davess61]

doped like pigs pmsl

[@JGZ.]

He's trying to sell th chanell for $15k

[@tdichow]

He'll be bold himself soon 😂😅

[@roadcyclist1]

Really? I don't think I laughed even once. What was so funny?

[@davess61]

Great blend of tongue-in-cheek hilarity, and complete summary of the earliest Grand Tours to appear on UK TV. Brilliant content!!

[@savagepro9060]

Where the hell have you been, taking DOPE? Welcome back!

[@monotonebooster3229]

As a Dane I find this..... extremely..... funny! Great video! Surely hope the recent Danish winner is cleaner than those Danes in the 96 tour.

[@alyjam]

Yeah you wish :D

[@DanishVikings]

@@alyjam guess how you define clean, by some standard no top 100 cyclist is clean. By legal standards most of them is.

[@user-wr5rl1oi9d]

Are you serious? Have you seen the mountain TT in TdF23? Still have doubts?🥹

[@BaldricksTurnip1]

Berzin loved a Big Mac even before Mcdelivery

[@fstenum]

Love IT! Bjarne is my all time favorite doper! And Thanks for Coming back - best docu series ever💪🤌

[@davidtreichelpppj5304]

Absolutely Amazing Commentary !!! . Your knowledge of the PRO RANKS is thoroughly scorching to all "The Professionals" back then . Thanks for the relief from being duped finally.....

[@cyclinghighlights]

Thank you very much!

[@thadkissick]

This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I've been laughing at it all week. Watched it again last night for like the 3rd time, and I still spit my drink out laughing. Now, I need you to do one of these for every Tour from '97 to '09. Brilliant!

[@cyclinghighlights]

Thank you very much, for us is amazing reading this type of comments!!

[@freenational]

Why stop at 09?

[@freenational]

​@@cyclinghighlights, us? This is a team effort?

[@colincolenso]

The amount of work that went into making this is unbelievable. I watched most of it live at the time.

[@fuglbird]

If he had spent an hour more he could have got the names right.

[@matttilley8620]

These videos are enjoyable to watch. It's always nice to be served a dose of reality among those who continue to say the riders are clean. Also a nice reminder of how long stages were back in the day. Multiple stages the length of one-day classics is unheard of today.

[@1greenMitsi]

doping made it possible - and exciting

[@noternunstoned]

Congrats on the voiceover narrator, great job and kudos to the sound engineer and producer, you can hear everything very clearly.

[@finch4336]

These videos are like a pro cycling fan's fairy tales. I can listen to these one after the other, it just all flows so well.

[@jeff5721]

I'm from the States and was at this Tour, the only one I ever attended. The weather absolutely sucked, waking up to November temperatures and trying to ride some of the Alps. I was lucky enough to choose the magic 4km spot on Les Arcs and watched Indurain blow apart right in front of me. I was cheering for Rominger, but then that cheat Riis screwed everything up. But of course all the contenders were on the gas. This is one very funny video, thanks for the upload and the memories.

[@cyclinghighlights]

What a trip! Nice story

[@Handletaken4]

The days when bikes fit, were beautiful, and went in a straight line.

[@Krispolle]

Watching this as a 10 year old danish kid was so epic. Say what you want but that tour by Bjarne Riis was phenomenal and is still legendary. In a peloton where every last rider was doped to their necks and the stages were designed with mutants in mind he was the best. Both at doping and cycling up the mountains.

[@cyclinghighlights]

Probably he wasn't the Best but of course he was the most methodic dude out there. He fought as a mule for the Glory and he get it. 3 weeks later was in the bed with Anne Dorthe, Maybe because the adrenaline

[@Penfold-zr2be]

He was a mediocre domestique who was proof that EPO did turn donkeys into racehorses.

[@ForeverLumoz]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@cyclinghighlightsif it started on adrenaline, what’s keeping them together?

[@toocooldk]

@@Penfold-zr2bemoron

[@Goldeeliza]

Indurain fan? @@Penfold-zr2be

[@stalinfontana]

A real review of 1996 Tour de France!!!!!!!!!!!🎥🎥👍👍👍👍👍

[@janscanulfsson9295]

What a Tour! Fab video. I was in the Alps and the weather was unbelievably bad. Snowline at 1500m, high winds, torrential rain. Watched this race in shock on France 2.😮 Didn't know all the background stuff then.

[@slowpoke7347]

They were all doped. Indurain, Zulle, Jalabert. And they still are now. Not just cyclists. Footballers, athletes... All about who has the best medical staff.

[@Meisterjaeger77]

great work! hope for more like this one. same epoche or maybe early or mid 00s

[@uhohoverflow]

Your commentary is so full of information and absolutely hilarious. I don't get the haters. For me, you capture my feelings towards professional cycling - especially the 90s - perfectly: full of admiration but at the same time … come on, of course everybody had blood as thick as tomato juice.

[@paullee3660]

A lot of good knowledge has gone into this. Particularly on the doping and infidelity history of the riders. Poor old Chris Boardman wondering why he couldn’t keep up in the mountains. Or did he know and was just too polite to say?

[@wraith8323]

Engagement bump because i love this channel 🤗

[@05xpeter]

Forgetting doping a minute. This seemed like the most entertaining tour ever. So many competitors and some many big changes in the GC it must have been fun to watch.

[@cyclinghighlights]

The Pamplona stage is Insane. I forgot also That Virenque attacks at the start of the stage (didn't worked) at 270 km to finish

[@abp1400]

It was. I remember watching it as a kid. I was tired of Mig's 5-peat. I wanted a new winner. I thought Berzin would take it after that first proper TT, and like this video, I thought that abbreviated stage right after wouldn't amount to much, but then Riis pounced. After that it seemed like Ullrich could probably beat him, very similar to the 2012 edition with Froome and Wiggins but he was held back, until Hautacam, though. Despite the doping, Riis on Hautacam is forever epic. The way he dropped back and did several probes before launching the final blow was amazing. And despite us knowing it was a "loaded" time, people still always use the Riis scale when talking that mountain.

[@geuros]

@@abp1400 yeah, those times almost everyone doped, it almost seems like even doping you had to do properly, overdoing it would backfire etc., but winning in this era didn't necessarily mean doping the most but doing something else better than others. The performances are not purely about doping. If somebody wants to tell me that Riis was more doped than Indurain, Pantani, Virenque or Ullrich I will laugh.

[@kristianhartlevjohansen3541]

@@geuros I guess there’s a certain art in being “on the sauce” for several weeks - and not burn out! T-Mobile seemed to have it down, by the performance of Voigt, Ullrich and Riis. L

[@16vPete]

Pure brilliance in this script, massive respect🤣

[@jonjust7796]

The fact that Riis’ Hautacamp record still stands says it all. The equipment has improved so much since then, but EPO beats 25 years of tech evolution. Mr. 60 was my hero back then 😅

[@liamgaul]

This is a great argument against the current riders being doped, of course.

[@Peterskovtvermoes]

No Like Rolf S (and the other Danish riders) it was achieved with good source water and immense talent!

[@freenational]

​@@liamgaul, sure they are?

[@KilgoreOnDrugs]

@@Peterskovtvermoes Rolf er ren!

[@Demy1970]

It’s like that East Bloc female runner who still has a 800meter world record from 1984 I believe?

[@pekerchu]

As a Dane i find this highly intertaining. Thanks for this and heres a sub!

[@chancell0r_djs4]

Great stuff as always. Love your narrative as I think the same. Dopage everywhere

[@jonathanchester5916]

Thanks for this journey back to a time before aero.

[@kevingregoire1042]

No helmets times, very long stages, 1996 is not that long ago… Again a very precise resumé, Great work assembling all theese VHS memories, edge montage and the ho so vitriol comments.

[@trentvlak]

Almost an hour and a half of delicious cynicism! What a treat!

[@abdul-kabiralegbe5660]

Finger licking good.😂😂

[@lastsonofthewest2444]

Epic commentary! I do not like this video, I LOVE it! Now, give me another shot of something good!

[@clausclausie7560]

I thought "what is this mean clickbait channel?" and then discovered some brilliant, informative and humorous cycling history. Thank you - Dane with eternal soft spot for Riis.

[@mi2b824]

I’m going to make a guess and say you’re VERY proud of your ability to grow hair. Your talents are multilevel, bro. 👏 I’d ask you for the secret to your hair growing prowess, (yes, I’m unable to grow hair evenly on the top of my head) but I’m sure it would be over my head and so difficult as to just choose to bow in admiration of those skilled, energetic, & confident enough to grow a full head o’ hair. Second only to your kind nature to point out this lack in others. Now please, on with the never ending snark!

[@cyclinghighlights]

That’s because I use Alpecin, doping for my hair

[@giovannirui7470]

"Anti-spectacular garbage" made my day 😂. I totally agree 👍 Great Video!

[@EnochTheFirstProphet]

When are you guys going to do a English speaking version of the shameless doper Pedro Delgado? I saw there was a Spanish one, but I don't speak Spanish 😢 at the very least do the 1988 TdF, and yes the 1997 TdF would be awesome too.

[@cyclinghighlights]

Probably Will do one of 1988 full vid

[@EnochTheFirstProphet]

@@cyclinghighlights awesome, really appreciate it, I also remember the one year where he missed the start of the prologue, it was 89 or 90 when LeMond won.

[@RadianIndustries]

Never has listening to Brodyquest on repeat for over an hour been so enjoyable.

[@haroldsmith7044]

Just think - if these riders hadn't been such magnificent dopers, we wouldn't get to enjoy videos like this one! We should all give thanks.

[@ninapodvornik5071]

ah memories,..great work!

[@TheSeppentoni]

the snark in these videos crack me up. TdF should hire you for stage recaps.

[@heavymetal6910]

Awesome !! more like this, the doped to the eyeballs cycling of the 90s was far better than what came after it.

[@AntonioPeres80]

Great video. I saw the 1996 Tour live on television, has I had watched the previous 5 victories of Indurain. Dopping wasn't an issue back then, nobody talked about it and all those mutant performances looked something "normal" from those big guys. Because I'm Portuguese, me and all my friends were backing up Big Mig Indurain. When he lost those 4 minutes at Les Arcs, everybody thinked that Indurain had the capability of overcoming that time lapse for Riis 😂 Boy, we were all very wrong! Today I know that all of those riders were doped, all of them, from Colombia to Japan, from USA to Europe. It was impossible to be competitive without being doped. But I liked to see those super-humans racing, it's part of an era. Indurain went to win the gold medal on the Olimpic time trial in Atlanta. After that, it was always going down for him. Probably the dopping required to remain competitive with the new guys like Ulrich was too much to handle by him. He was a calm, friendly and a family guy, "un senõr" like the spanish say. 2 years later, a certain Armstrong came and the rest is history

[@cyclinghighlights]

Indurain was a family Man, and when Banesto putted pressure on him to ride the Vuelta he knowed that was the time to left pro cycling

[@AntonioPeres80]

@@cyclinghighlights yes, they were very bad for him, forcing him to go to that Vuelta. After the 1996 Tour, I'm glad Indurain decided to retire in the end of that year. Seeing him lose more competitions, or suffering to keep up with the other much doped guys was too much for an Indurain fan to bear 😐 He retired in the best moment, Rominger and Riis went to ride a little more time and the results for them were awful.

[@peterfireflylund]

I’m Danish. Everybody knew about doping in 1995. Everybody knew road racing was full of doping long before that.

[@AntonioPeres80]

@@peterfireflylund of course we all knew but it was a "normal" thing, part of a much bigger scheme called "sports medicine". Those performances from the cyclists of the time were impossible with the knowledge of the 90s, unless doping was used. But nobody want to talk about it untill the Festina affair in 1998. Before that, UCI had a blind eye on everything.

[@telmolicious]

@@AntonioPeres80U literally wrote “today I know” regarding doping.. As in, u didnt know back then. And u seriously Think Indurain wasnt doping? While beating the dopers? Aight 😂

[@trevmanu1]

A different but very honest assessment of the 96 tour. I'll watch more.

[@slayermtb_7848]

Dude! Where you been !!?? I though maybe the lil dictator mafia got you! 😂🤣😂🤣

[@danielnascimento5123]

very well done vid. thx guys

[@stevencahill3628]

looking at the thumbnail, i was like wait.... woody harrelson used to ride bicycles?

[@2wheelsrbest327]

Thanks really enjoyed re watching this. Its the only year I went over to watch the Tour for a few days. I remember watching Boardman climb a mountain and he struggled to turn his pedals. There was no shame in that because Indurain was also struggling. I later had the opportunity to shake his hand as he went into his hotel after the Val D Isere time trial and it was like holding a piece of cold steel. Muscle or juice I wonder. As we left there we struggled to get out as it had begun to snow. As for Riis I remember watching him speed away on the Hautacam thinking that don't look right and I am amazed that it was some time later before he admitted doping. Which given Indurain beat Boardman in the time trial makes me wonder was Boardman that good to come second. Finally you said "in an era of clean racers" , do you know something I don't then. Look forward to the next one.

[@nt78stonewobble]

"Doping like guinea pigs..." ... ... ... That explains the needles I keep finding in my guinea pigs cage and all the yellow jerseys they wear.

[@MichaelMohrshipofools]

Nostalgia is one hell of a drug...

[@tommanseau6277]

So let me ask the real question: who wasn't doping?

[@elcascomenda96]

Noce storytelling, good video bro ❤

[@JeremyWilliams-tz4xt]

I have little interest in cycling, but this was brilliant!

[@klaushoff461]

TDF was way more open back then....now we got 2 riders that can do what ever they want.

[@cyclinghighlights]

1996-1998 editions were insane Also 1990, 1992 and 1995 in the 90s were cool

[@user-nf5pj4wx8d]

Loved it! Go Bjarne go!!!

[@didisenft]

excellent job, better than Netflix movie :)

[@TwoWheelWarrior]

Way to go buddy!

[@abp1400]

Drug use aside, that had have been the worst weather I'd ever seen for a tour. So much rain and fog on almost every stage.

[@sambiker4478]

Haha - thanks for the commentary. Hilarious.

[@cowyow4300]

Mainstream sports media would never report 'misdemeanours'. Keep up the great videos

[@cyclinghighlights]

Probably Will have to make a patreon or something like That because of that sports media

[@CCLitterer]

Thank you for your service

[@OlayerB]

PLEASE do the ‘96 olympic mountain bike race. Dope city.

[@Nyelands]

You sound like J. Peterman - Elaine’s boss on Seinfeld :-)

[@eddy9027]

great video; how about another video of the dopers of 2023 - 2024 ?

[@MatthewBluefox]

When the cops caught him doping, they said: "Freeze, Mr. Riis (Reez), it's the police!"

[@stanleyrosella7042]

All was doped back then. Ullrich and Armstrong even more than Bjarne. You wanted to win back then you got to get doped. So the playing field was level I say.

[@cyclinghighlights]

How do you Know Ullrich and Armstrong were even more doped than Riis?

[@Penfold-zr2be]

It wasn't a level field even if they all took EPO. Read Tyler Hamilton's book to find out why this was the case. EPO conferred different levels of benefit depending on riders natural haematocrit levels.

[@JBubbs]

All of them were crazy huge, considering today's standards not only for gc riders but for sprinters as well. That tasty sweet epo...

[@Jonziebal]

Too funny! Keep going!!

[@timewitness3490]

I remember this tour as one of the greatest i've ever witnessed, though (almost) everyone was doped up as fuck.

[@user-bs1lr8nx1h]

pretty much most sports

[@TheLemon333]

Bjare looks like a real monster in the tab. So sensational. Tabloid vitriol.

[@paullee3660]

Lose four minutes one day, then attacking everyone else the next. What could possibly have happened overnight? Maybe just a good night’s sleep😂

[@jonnielsen4564]

Ahh bjarne riis what a charachter. He really feel from grace. He is sometimes a commentator on a podcast about tour de france called "Touren på bagsædet" from BT

[@DavidB-zi3lg]

Anne Dorthe Tanderup - the ‘strapping Olympian handball player’ - was ‘also doped up’? Is there any basis for that novel claim or is it guilt by association?

[@cyclinghighlights]

Do you know any olympic champion 100%clean? Even in golf or badminton people are on the juice

[@DavidB-zi3lg]

Come on, that is laughably weak. Do you really claim that the Olympic champion in skeet shooting,, 49’er (sailing) or arrow shooting by definition must have doped? You don’t see a difference between an endurance sport and a team sport? By your Logic the UK football team MUST have doped en bloc to even reach the final of Euro20. How would it even be financially viable to dope in women’s handball in 1996?

[@cyclinghighlights]

Of course, men football is the sport with more drugs in Europe. Look how changed the body of Gareth Bale with Pintus or how Messi was flying with full HGC in his body (and spiting everywhere) In the arrow and shotgun sports, there are another type of drugs, focusing in the concentration

[@cyclinghighlights]

Ah. The financy was the State. Since the 60s countries pay for this. Even a guy from denmark died in cycling in the 60s. Also Denmark financed recently studies for detecting EPO (and how to unmask it) It could be worse, in Spain in Barcelona 92, Spain paid Ufe Fuentes for doping all type of sports, incluying women's hockey and men football

[@user-id9ol7ev5k]

Yeah, climbing the Hautacam in the big ring, dropping back, and then riding back up the front again. As if that wasn't enough, he toyed with them until finally taking off in the final 7 kms. That was in my opinion, the most arrogant move of all the dopers in that era.

[@deepat]

The only channel that tells the truth. Everyone ignores the drugs!

[@MrKokspang]

Doped or not doped it was fantastic cycling those years, yes Bjarne Riis was doped but 95 % of that times riders was

[@cyclinghighlights]

Is more complicated than that

[@kozakon2]

@@cyclinghighlights Sorry but what you mean by that ? Why are you referring to Riis as a dopod donkey but Indurain is just "indurain" ? everybody was on juice..what is more complicated in it ?

[@palmsout]

looking forward to '97

[@outdoorvertical]

R ~ I ~ I ~ S now a friend of the channel.... amazing!

[@nubfisher5686]

Yea,I thought Contratroll had you deported

[@spybaz]

love these

[@abdul-kabiralegbe5660]

Who else thinks Olano is a less handsome Indurain?😂

[@janscanulfsson9295]

It was really strange in 97 when he'd signed for Banesto. At first glance you saw the big, solid rider wearing the right jersey and you thought Big Mig was back only to be disappointed on closer examination!

[@abdul-kabiralegbe5660]

@@janscanulfsson9295 It's the thick eyebrows.😂

[@manfrommontreal]

Ullrich's home at the time was in the Black Forest, where his at the time girlfriend was from. The pictures are not in "East" Germany.

[@cyclinghighlights]

Thanks! I have to read the Ulle's book, the 2022 one for these details too

[@drphibes7666]

Gaby Weiss from Merdingen

[@manfrommontreal]

@@drphibes7666 Gaby "kein Hochdeutsch" Weiss

[@fuglbird]

More than an hour with a Brit who consistently mispronounces names. Funnier than the jokes.

[@ChristopheSauseng]

You are a genius!

[@alyjam]

I love this narration! Hilarious!

[@herum_lungerer73]

You are a funny man and i like your Chanel. Wish i knew who you are. 😂 Bjarne is a funny guy. I would like to know the highest ever measured hamatocrite. I could imagine it was even like 70 or something 😅😅

[@cyclinghighlights]

64% Ugrumov I guess (about the recording ones)

[@gasgazman9698]

best tour ever!!

[@Tympan]

That bald head is worth a sub! Brilliantly done!

[@davidzof]

I'm sure all the syringes are for lactate testing so he can stay in Zone 2.

[@CrashExhibition]

Giving me Alan Partridge vibes 😂

[@Phrankster163]

These are a good watch ... but only if you turn the sound off.

[@simonthomsen8578]

Cycling highlights, I have a question for you: is it really fair to make the bike riders take the majority of the blame for doping, when the entire system was corrupt to the core at that time? And I'm not just talking about Riis here, but every professional rider back then. Imagine being a professional bike rider at that time, having trained extremely hard to achieve your dream of riding at the highest level, and then be confronted with the reality of a cynical unregulated money business giving you this ultimatum of quitting or doping. Also, weren't we as viewers responsible to inquire further into the matter and demanding a thorough investigation instead of just sitting at home blissfully content with what was presented to us on the screen? If we keep demonizing athletes instead of the system, nothing will come out of it but harassment and bullying of the wrong people. (Note: of course riders are responsible for their choices, but that was not the point)

[@deltalima6703]

Of course its fair.... are you high?

[@simonthomsen8578]

@@deltalima6703 thank you for your thorough and respectful comment; you sure have carefully thought through each of my points, your superior analytical skills really gives me something to revise and reconsider.

[@deltalima6703]

Happy to help. 😀🤙

[@rasmuswellejus]

Gode gamle Bjarne Riis! 🇩🇰

[@brianwheeldon4643]

The commentary is sheer magic! 'the perfection of epo in cycling coupled with the lack of ear-pieces and power meters and other anti-spectacular garbage' What lyricism it's peoetic! And who else uses words like 'anodyne' in their description when commenting on the tour?

[@bendover730]

Epo-etic?

[@tannerslomko]

Thanks!

[@egelund1976]

He deserved the win. He had been working up to it for many years. Indurain could only be overthrown with doping and Riis did it. I salute him, Indurain years was amazingly boring.

[@24jh42]

My thoughts is that the Indurain epoke was boring like fuck. Doped up riders controlling the peloton and not much happening. Riis introduced something new. A yellow jersey that attacked and did crazy stuff. A lot more exiting to watch the 1996 Tour de France, than the highlights of the previus 4. Rolf Sørensen the Danes friend???? As a Dane that remark is hilarious. They were not friends at all, but very competetive rivals.

[@drunkensailor112]

You say escartin was helped by doctor ferrari? Any source for that? Escartin was actually one of the cleanest real talents of that era as he showed in 98 and 99

[@cyclinghighlights]

Was in Mapei in 95

[@cyclinghighlights]

Also in 99-2000 Was With Ufe

[@Paul-px9bf]

Ah the good old days