The FIRST DOPED Cyclist with EPO || A Story of CRAZY OVERDOSE 

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"He was so doped, he tested positive in the 80s." 😅

more drugs than a Cypress Hill concert. Best line ever

Dude Tour de Pharmacy is so funny. Hilarious you threw the clip in.😂

Teammate of Andy Bishop here. He was the only non-doped on PDM for the Tour. Raced against all these guys in the early nineties and holy cow they were unreal. Came back from racing pre-Worlds races in Italy and I was flying. Years later an ex-Soviet doctor told me that was "passive doping", where you're not on anything but everyone else is. You get crushed, but once recovered and in a non-doped competition, you are the crusher.

“More drugs in the PDM training camp than at a Cypress Hill concert” “Our trotting protagonist worked like a Roman charioteer’s horse for the pigeon pie-eating doped man” “That scene was absolutely grotesque” “Today’s kids would say…cringe” “The climbers almost 2 meters tall”

Well done story. Really great watching and seeing all the riders I loved in my teens.

Love the stories. Please keep them coming

"more drugs then in a Cypress Hill Concert..." GOLD!

This guy doped EPO so much, even his jersey was growing red blood cells in the thumbnail.

Well it’s the last day of this years Tour De France and here I am, trawling. Good video, subscribed ;)

These stories remind me of the tabloid papers in the check-out line at the grocery store. I don't want to look, but I can't help myself.

This vid is amazing great footage from the 80s and good work in the story. You deserve millions of suscribers

Great episode, great script & delivery, plus bonus for points for John Cena - did he think we couldn't see him ? I remember Rooks riding well in the Kellogg's Tour of Britain ( 87-ish) and his transformation from classics rider to crack stage racer was truly remarkable - how little we knew back then.

PDM ... Perfect Doping Machine

Love these - the scripting and voiceover is bang on and very funny. "I'm sorry for those of you who don't believe in miracles..."

Zombie apocalypse!😂 You guys should write an encyclopedia on doping in cycling! Great video, thanks for posting!💪🏻🚴‍♂️

Just a note, alpe d'huez is known as the Dutch mountain. Quite a few Dutch winners there. Also, I only recently found out that blood bags were against the rules only until 1986. This means previous winners would use blood bags including Hinault and, Merckx. I think Rooks won Leige which shows he could climb. Off their trolleys of course but that's cycling 😊👍

How about Francesco Moser finally winning Giro d'Italia at age 33, after having been a disappointment in the Giro in the four seasons running up to his win. Notably under the guidance of his doctor Francesco Conconi. That one in hindsight makes me think of Bjarne Riis winning the tour at age 32.

Your story of tragedy and comedy is appreciated. The earliest admitted use of EPO, and the PDM Team's cynicism. All played out with a nice orchestral waltz. Heavy sprinters and rouleurs were dancing up the mountains, and us poor souls were looking at these fine folk, entranced.

Just found this channel. Unreal should be at a milli subs

I felt bad for Parra. He should have won the 1988 Tour.

At 5:04 i hear prestigious « turd »….dunno if on purpose or my lacking of english skills..-.but for sure made me laugh…thx so much….your videos are so entertaining and informative

Great vid 👏

I remember watching that Tour. It was a good one. The following off season didn't Rooks and Theunisse demolish the time for climbing Alpe d'huez but then fail on the stage in Le Tour? It was a long time ago so I may be misremembering some of the details.

Great video. My only objection is that way too many people seem to think "doping" sorta "took off" with EPO in the 80's-90's. EPO was just a technological leap forward.....but the use of banned substances and other performance enhancers (whether real or imagined) have been in widespread, almost ubiquitous, in pro cycling since the 60's.....and before that is was preceded by chicanery and outright cheating.

I have a friend who was a very competitive amateur racer in the 80's, he told me most of the top amateurs were doping in one way or another.

As Dutchman I have always been curious about the Dutch PDM-team. Thanks for aswering many questions. To this day Gert Jan Theunisse denies being doped and claims he has a special medical condition.

Love the 88 tour!

My uncle beated Rooks in the amateurs in the 80's before Rooks went pro. My father spoke to him a few years ago he stlll remembered that race, Rooks is a nice guy.

Vinokourov would be an interesting one to cover; some of his performances were so obviously aided that it only took a pair of eyes to see what was going on. I don't remember which Tour it was but he went from struggling at the edge of collapse in one stage to fresh as a daisy with afterburner power in the following day's TT--maybe 2007? I had no clue what was going on during the LA years, but by 2007 a lot of the story was out and lots of the people watching were just "oh come on" during that whole tour.

Love that style of long vids, learn a lot

Way to go buddy!

Delgado was on EPO too a few years before

Interesting times in the world of professional cycling.

Could you make a video about Stefan Schumacher and Bernhard Kohl pls

Strange video. Some nice racing footage, but otherwise a disjointed collection of assertions and suggestions. No actual presentation of evidence.

This was interesting and informative watch, until 6 seconds from the end.

Pronunciation tips: it's Rooks with the oo sounding like the o in coke. Easy to remember. And the eu in Theunisse sounds like the eu in the French word jeu.

"More drugs than a Cyprus Hill concert". I'm howling. 😂

More drugs than a Cypress Hill concert

Rooks and Gert weren't 80Kg. Miguel Induráin was.

My own experience with TRT is it makes you about 25% stronger after 6 mnths to one year. At a much older age, too.

I very much doubt EPO was used pre 89. It wasn’t approved for use until 89 and was very hard to manufacture. Testosterone, cortisone and transfusions can easily mimic EPO behavior though.

80s bicycles, 80s hair. What a trip.

Doping is the soul of cycling. Like the scream of a v10 engine in Formula 1. Both need to be brought back.

I had posters of these guys (PDM team et al) in my bedroom when I was a did in the early 90s. Jeeez.

Rooks looked great in the polka dot jersey

Its just nice to hear someone using their real voice to narrate instead of that AI crap.

I would love to believe lemond was clean since he suffered so bad during the epo era and since he was a hero when I was a young man. USA cycling had that blood doping scandal back in 1984, though... So if that method was already out there and was used by the Olympic team, it's not hard to imagine it was pervasive.

Gert-Jan still the last Dutch KOM winner in Tdf but now hardly able to climb an escalator at age 59.

Delgado even was caught being doped in the Tour of '88, but wasn't punished for it. Unbelievable.

Great thumbnail

These are all performances of Floyd Landis quality.

What monsters they were at the time! Today, only a drop of fish oil under the tongue.

It's good that Cycling Stories acknowledges that Serie A was awash with dope in the 80's and 90's We all should know what Dr Ferrari said about the Spain National football team in the early to mid 2000's. Cyclists are an easy target when talking about doping but loads of other sports must do it. I know a famous former SPL (Scotland) footballer who said in his 15 year SPL carear he was tested no more than 2-3 times a year. I'm not accusing him of taking PED's but a couple of tests a year is a joke

You sound very Irish Love the vid 💯

So, it will never happen again, that a tall rider riding in the wind will win a sprint and a mountain stage and a time trial?

Roche the godfather of doping. Collapsing and almost died only to recover and win. Its a miracle as Lance would say

Theunisse @80 kg’s? 😂. Where did you get that weight from as it’s way inaccurate

@Cyclingstories: What makes you think Kneteman was clean that year?

Haha I love Tour de Pharmacy...I quote it quite often about motocross. "There are hundreds dollars to play for....stakes are minimal." Lol

Now I know what I try to emulate Delgado or rooks performance on 89tdf I never come near lol…..I was Inspired that year Tdf as a naive teenager then

I watched only a couple of minutes and there I already noticed a hugh mistake. Adri van der Poel is called Matthieu! (as I hear it, English isn't my mother language). Imo this puts the whole video on another quality level...... I reason: if such a simple thing isn't accurate than what about the more complicated aspects?

Love your videos. Quite entertaining. Do riders use Cbd to aide recovery now? Elec. Muscle Stimulators?. LeMond was a cut Above

Great video and recap. I would suggest that Andy Bishop was not doping and that his performance over the rest of his career confirms that.

In Denmark we have a song called EPO sangen. Made by red warszawa by rewriting a christmas song

Love these doped riders much more than today's "radio racers" ..at least they were thinking about how to win and not waiting for instructions..

Please do one on Roberto Heras. I think he was the most doped climber ever

Why did they get rid of the heamoglobin shirt?

In the reference to Rooks confessing in 2009, was this to undertaking blood transfusions during the '88 TDF, as was reported on Cyclingnews when the team soigneur at the time Bertus Folk discussed what they were doing? No mention from Folk or anyone else at PDM states EPO as being used this early, to my understanding. Perhaps you know something we don't, or it fits the narrative to pin point EPO's beginning here, rather than say spring 1990 and the Italian renaissance? A couple of other relatively minor points. Theunisse weighing 80kgs? I don't think so! When Parra won into Morzine in '88, he went away on the descent of the Corbier, linking up with a team mate who launched him onto the Pas de Morgins. Rooks, Simon and Claveroylat were behind and not overtaken as said, however they did clip off the front in the final km once the group reformed to contest 2nd. Fignon had a tapeworm during this TDF and knew he'd not be in contention, Bernard I recall developed a urine infection whilst Herrera over raced in the lead up (Vuelta, Dauphine, Vuelta a Colombia) and peaked too early to do anything against Delago and the PDM's. Finally, there were 3 who spoke out at the time against what was happening, being Bauer, Boyer and Hampsten.

1:29 ~ check out that front end shimmy

I was teammates on team monex with Roberto gagioli the long-haired Italian guy in the beginning of the video

Oh, and the oe in Van der Poel should sound like the oo in fool. Also easy to remember.

You’ve got your facts wrong on this video. While Rooks and team were doping and he has admitted to it, they weren’t using epo in 88. Read the admissions of the soigneur who administered the drugs they were using. Also you can read Rooks admission about when he took epo, and it’s after 88.

Could you do a video on today's magnificent ride by Mr. van Aert? Breakaway from km 0 and yet full of energy on the final climb to leave Pogachar behind....! And all this after having spent day after day in the race attacking. Oh yes, history will remember this fantastic rider and his incredible Tour-performances 😆

4:25 The clip of the roided-out bodybuilder on a bike was epic.

Hij die zonder zonde is werpe de eerste steen ! Laen we wel wezen, vanaf 60 gebruikten alle (?) toprenners middelen.

Lance Armstrong shared the TDF podium with 14 other cyclists. 13 of them forfeited their podium finishes due to doping. I was the last person alive to believe Lance was clean, but this second fact is what really turned me off the sport. I love cycling, but it is not about competition.

"...being more fired up than Kanye West when he saw Kim Kardashian with Pete Davidson."

Good thing today's massive gains in average speed are all thanks to aerodynamics. Enjoyed the vid, thanks mate.

Even the lions was doped back then...

Love it.. "More drugs at PCM than at a Cypress Hill concert"

gartian toonissay maddeleen vanderpole , that accent lol

My niehbour is mechanically doped he passes me everymorning on his giant ebike at 60 ks hour and cheeky says have a good workout

10:40 Grotesque the same of today, when you see a 55-60 kgs climber do time trial Better than a 80 kgs specialist. What an "electrical" show.

ROLF SØRENSEN IS CLEAN!

Even then mullets not compatible with such an honorable sport.

Phillipa York didn't exist then it was Robert Millar.

You should do a video on Vingegaard this tour. How is he this good? Which jet fuel is he on?

PDM stood for "perfectly doped men"

Hmmm, looked up Wout van Aert, 1.90 m. 78 kg.

It's been commented here before ...you deserve millions of subscribers

wasnt sean king kelly rumored to enhance his form too? whats concerning is that in last few years no major scandals in cycling, they either finally got clean or new drugs are undetectable

Can you make a video of volta Portugal Raul alarcon

I'm not sure I like your comment about Sean Kelly, 'always failing in the mountains'. Clearly you have a fantastic knowledge of cycling therefore as you well know, Sean was a sprint and classics specialist, incredibly successful in both. WVA is a modern day Sean and pound for pound, the best cyclist in the world but he's not good in the mountains. WVA and Sean, imho are/were never considered as Grand tour potential winners because of their specialisms. Horses for courses. Of course, I stand corrected. Keep up the fantastic work you do, well done.

An old one today... he're we go again like whitesnake

Good vid, read like an Irish fairytale, but good.

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4:17 What is this??? :D Doped to explosion?