The DOPED WHINER who wanted to BUY HIS RIVALS to Win the Tour de France 

Is there doping involved? 😁

Second reply 😂

Fun fact: some cyclists started to dye their hair, since the artificial coloring helped hiding EPO levels when performing tests using their hair 😅 As the Spanish fans say: “it was the belle EPOque of cycling” 😊

​@@just-nalapantani dyed his beard blond once.

That would be a 10-second video.

Superman

@@CountryDick dick by name dick by nature … haven’t a clue have you …I suppose you’ve never seen the movie or read his book ya fanny

those riders alone have more backbone than all the needle pushers together

Add Nicole Cooke to that short list

I was living and working in France during multiple tours and classics and you learn quickly from the natives that if doping helped a French rider to win it was acceptable. On anyone else it was completely unacceptable and they dismissed anyone else who was ranked ahead of a French rider as a doper. I had that conversation many times. They would place their pinched thumb and index finger in front of their face to make that point as if that gesture indicated their opinion came from a higher source. The weird passion for French riders by the French was plain weird.

How good is the book? I saw the documentary and it's great with Lance comments

@@cyclingstories - just finished it. As you'd expect from Daniel, it's excellent. Brings things right up to date (March 22). Does a lot on Puerto and Freiburg (those dudes were wild) and he's done really well getting interviews with lots of the guys who were In The Room Where It Happened (literally). Highly recommended.

Great video,shows the absurdist sport in the 90's wasn't a sport just a freak show.

Pascal Herve turned this sport onto a joke

Who hates Ullrich?

He’s French and he didn’t win the TDF. Everyone loves an underdog.

@@cyril4046 Ullrich it seems

​@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 I don't think Ullrich hates himself. Besides, we are talking about popularity. Whether Ullrich likes himself or not is irrelevant.

@@cyril4046 Maybe i should have added a smiley. Jan Ullrichs recent behavoure doesn’t match a guy who’s in control. Drugs, alcohol and domestic violence is what most people remembers him for.

The name thing is because we didn't talk about other sports here, now the team created a Soccer channel too called Football Stories. Thanks for the comment, i'm very happy about the entertainment thing, that's the purpose!

Don't know. Maybe in Domo or QS. But in Polti with Hervé around him... (Remember Izoard 2000) Not at levels of Festina of course but is suspicious.

@@cyclingstories Better only suspicions than basically giving himself away in the road.

That's the problem. The admired/fanatic thing.

That's the thing though, cycling and doping have gone hand in hand for decades.

Cycling is unique, or maybe it's not, in that it's entire history has a very omnipresent caveat to virtually every great champion, victory and team. It can't just be jettisoned, so many accept it so that there is something there. Otherwise you could could the number of ''clean'' TDF winners for example, on the fingers of one hand.

@Cycling Stories I don't consider myself a "fanatic" (I know the word "fan" comes from it...) I don't have all day to watch sports, no cable TV or online subscriptions. I watch highlights of stuff. So I applaud your work and thank you. It's one thing to be competitive in the true spirit of sports, quite another to constantly seek advantage through chemical and medical experimentations, for more money and fame, although I am not against professional sports in principle. Excess of money, the lure of it and of fame corrupt young athletes and artists and the whole entertainment and sports industries. All of it has a negative effect on society. I believe UCI and other federations are to blame too, don't you think?

@@Faith_Hope_Guy All pro sports are corrupt. The teams , sponsors and governing bodies are all at least as responsible. There's way too much money for them not to be.

All 'pro sports' are corrupt in some way. There's just too much money involved. Pro sports are a spectacle, mere entertainment. Its ALL about money and profits. Even though athletes take the brunt of the punishments and derision, its not entirely their fault, nor are they the only ones corrupted. Other entities have large monetary interests in pro sports. Just have a look at the UCI. They're clearly 'interested' in money. They're also proven incompetent at their jobs. There's one way to avoid it all. Boycott it, don't support it or pay for it. Its as simple as that.

@@rollinrat4850 exactly. If there's fame or money sadly there will be dishonesty. Always has and always will be. I don't follow or admire pro cycling like I used to. I learned first hand racing in international races in Europe in early 2000's how much dishonesty and greed there is in sport.

Giro Salta de qualita

simply a french tv show where celebs did something in disguise and at the end, presentator (Patrick Sebastien) said who it was

They could do one on Stephen Roche & Sean Kelly, the only two cyclists who never doped.

@Peter west we're spanish

@@cyclingstories And ?

@@cyclingstories you might be Spanish or whatever, but you sure as hell don't seem to be real cycling fans, otherwise you'd make videos about some actual cycling history and not just only about "supposed" doping stories, with some of them looking nothing more than pure speculation. And disrespecting cyclists, like calling Chris Froome an "asmathic" using an ironic tone, like you did in another video (among many other examples) doesn't do you any favor either...

@@peterwest5525 Steven Roche was a doper apparently- David Walsh called him out on it on live tv a while ago I think

Maybe its sarcasm the big mig thing

The sport was full of individual characters back then and yeah the jerseys weren't part of the shorts and looked more colourful. The helmets and obligatory sunglasses make riders look much the same.

In 1997 (and i think 98 too) Festina was insane. Remember Laukka Man. Also, his loyal teammate Hervé was one of the most doped and dangerous riders in history. In other hand, yes, he was cool.

The biggest robot mutant rider was Armstrong 😂

Like a lot of mature industries and/or sports everything about cycling has become stultifyingly corporate.

The problem with doping is exactly that NOT everyone doped. Many, very talented athletes, walked away from cycling because they realised the only way was to dope. Pro cycling wasn't the best of the best, it was the best of the guys prepared to dope. And imo if doping never existed I don't actually think Lance would ever have won a tour, one day races yes but not in the mountains.

@@213tpg I beg to disagree it has been proven that doping does not turn you into superman. It helps yes but only a fraction and your talent and physiology is still your benchmark. All the GC main players Lance battled against were doped up and everyone admitted to it. So you mean to tell me that a rookie never had a chance? Of course! he won't because he's a rookie and must play a lieutenant role. Lance was a freak of nature whose lactic threshold was so high he felt less pain in his legs than the rest of them. Opinion about him is slowly turning around and fans are seeing the bigger picture of what cycling was about during that era. Only noobs and non-cycling people think like you do. Lance was the GOAT . His downfall was he became too greedy with winning the titles and not giving the newcomers a chance and his Texas brashness and arrogant character rubbed the whole pro cycling organization (teams and journalists) the wrong way. Lesson here is to be always nice and be humble especially when you are winning all the time.

@@gregmarcus3064 Still drinking the Koolaid, years later.

@@coldsilnc Like what Bill Burr said and no BS. "My roided guy beat your roided guy. 😂" Kool aid!? I drink what the kids drink now. Bubble tea 😂

@@gregmarcus3064 sorry but I'm no noob to cycling. Amongst the international cycling world nobody ever wondered if Lance was doping, but only ever what was he on. Doping done well doesn't make only a fraction of difference lol! And doping starts in U19's. It destroys cycling careers very early on. I get it's a very difficult decision for cyclists and athletes due to how common it is but ultimately if you break the rules you are cheating, it doesn't matter how many or few are doing it. Lance was/is a very gifted cyclist/ athlete but ultimately, like many, many others he cheated. As good as he was that can't be changed. Perhaps he would have been the greatest cyclist ever but also perhaps not, we will never know.