The Stage That Changed The Tour De France Forever 

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Hat guy was a shame. He was a drug addict. The woerst year in the tour.

Broooo😢

Get Well 👊🏻

@@user-jm7kc4bm8m Thank you, I'm trying!

Ur wife was durty bro

What did you do?

As George Bennet put it: He pulled a Landis!?

Pulled a Landis on them guys in peloton for sure😅

Sky and (not so) marginal gains.......

@@tillyvanilly7015 No, no, no. It was the fueling strategy! ---> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mccKzTdfXts.html

Thank you that means a lot!

Thank you!

He didn't win.

@@andredeketeleastutecomplex Yes he did, he won over a bunch of other dopers.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Makes sense, dodgy blood bag

Thank you!

Thank you!

Hey! You're right. My name is Jesper. I used to do Zwift content haha

Neither of those dudes can read. I'm not kidding.

Thank you! Various sources led to this video. You'll find most of them on RU-vid if you search Floyd Landis

Thank you and thank you for the correction :)

"went on to whoop Lance at the tour" ? you've got the races mixed up in your memory. This video explains the timeline

@@BurgerTime7441 yeah I knew I’d get that wrong. Sorry to mess with history, thanks for the catch.

If you watch the end of the stage as soon as Floyd dismounts his bike a team technician whisks his bike away before any questions are asked

Hmmm. Lemond just talked about this but I thought Cancelara was the first a few years later when rode away after reaching down in spring classics

EVERY PRO ATHLETE ARE ON JUICE!

LA failed lots of tests. But they were inadmissible bc they weren't scheduled per the rules. LA was my hero turned ZERO. He was a liar and ruined the lives of many to perpetuate his lies. Teammates and their wives were threatened if they told THE TRUTH! You saw it in this video...the truth that FL spoke brought out the true LA. Don't defend a liar and a cheat. Still today, people can't watch an amazing break away without thinking of batteries, EPO, LA or FL. He sucks and you should treat him that way.

@@chasman9662 What a clown opinion dude. The mere fact that doping is part of cycling history. Its embedded into the sport. And you say this. Let me make it clear. LA won fair and square. Like anybody before and after him on JUICE!!! What you can't take away from him. He worked hard, had talent. Supreme mentally to over come everything to succeed. That's an example of GOAT athlete you can get. Just like Landis he won fair and square. Let me make it clear. EVERY PRO ATHLETE ARE ON JUICE!!! Any sport code. All of your sport hero are dopers.

The lancehole was the GOAT cheater. Thats for sure. Poster boy cheater, a 'hero' all hooked up with the UCI, whom he paid off. He even admitted his cheating too. So admirable..... to a 🤡 The lancehole was only ever sorry he got caught. If it werent for his narcissism, pride and greed, not to mention, Floyd here, he would have gotten away. Free and clear. Ive often wondered how he rationalized his behavior to his children. What a freakin example to set ..... In a sport where 'everyone' is cheating, who could possibly know, for a fact, who's the 'GOAT champion'? The most worthy athlete??? Best cheater? Yeah sure, a 'goat'. 😂 What's the 'standard'? Greg L said it best back then. "Greatest miracle or greatest fraud in sport" The act of doping is in fact, physiologically, an uneven playing field. Maybe thats 'not so' common sense? The dope has different effects and benefits for various humans. Doping is also economically an unequal playing field. Not everyone can afford the best dope nor the best 'doctors'.

@rollinrat4850 listen to this dude. Quoting a cheater like GREG and yet condemn Lance of cheating. Make it make sense. PS. You can take every drug in the world. You will still fail if you don't have talent, work hard, and have the right mental application. That's alone makes you an idiot with this comment.

@@oliverleigh9854 We've heard it all before. Hard work never made up for poor ethics either. I will agree with you on one point. ALL elite sports are corrupt in one way or another. This doesnt prove every elite athlete cheats however. I have no real 'evidence' whether Greg L doped or not. But where's the evidence he actually did it? The burden of proof is upon the accuser you should know. Its simply unfair to expect anyone to prove they never did something wrong. Free speech and free thought only allow us all the 'theories' we can possibly imagine. If proof actually ever existed, Greg would probably have been sued into oblivion for some of the things he'd said or implied. Lemond still has plenty of French fans btw. SURELY, with all his power and money, the lancehole could have convinced someone, anyone to inform on Mr Lemond. A former teammate, soigneur or somebody. Just one person to produce real or at least convincing evidence. But no one ever did that for whatever reason. All Ive ever heard are hearsay, rumors, theories and assumptions, no real facts. Criminals often believe everyone think and act just like they do... Greg's name is still in ALL the record books as well. Oh, the irony. Greatest American cyclist...... I'd imagine, the lancehole still has that famous trophy room, probably never lets his family in there. But that's just my imagination. See, I can do it too. 😂 But go ahead and just assume, spread rumors. Thats nothing new. Did you know? As a teen , Greg L was beating US pros while still a junior. He went on a trip to Europe and won most of his races as a teen. The lancehole had to buy his first big win in '93 from Roberto Gaggioli. Core States I think. Not the only rider he'd paid off either apparently. I had a high school riding buddy who later rode on the Coors Light team. Gaggioli's team. Greg L wore their jersey in the states too. Very, very few elite athletes in any sport have a VO2 max like Lemond's. Thats something humans cant fake, buy or inject. Its natural aerobic giftedness. All this is probably also why the best team at that time '81 (Renault) signed him for a big contract. Bernard Hinault came to California to convince Greg to join his and Laurent Fignon's team.

Thank you! The sticky bottles was insane... we left it out but it was in the initial script. The amount of times he gets a bottle, pours it all over him and takes another...

what are sticky bottles?

@@Charizardlison I'ts a water bottle handed to rider that stays in the hands of both rider and soigneur therefore allowing the rider to be propelled at the same speed as the car.

*peloton, but no, everyone came back from that, because none of them were gc guys, which is why they let them have 30 min

@@notreally2406 Pereiro had finished 10th in the 2 previous TdF's, and it was stage 13

Doping never stopped and never will, as a whole we humans simply are not honest enough

I do too. The good old days. Marco pantini did a similar thing, loved it. Made watching the tour more exciting..for me ,take away team radios and let the riders race by instinct. These tours are getting seriously boring

Fair point, but not everyone was doping. Most of the absolute best GC guys were, but it really sucks that we'll likely never know who was clean and who wasn't. Oh well, at least it was a chaotic era. Need another video like this, but for Riccardo Riccò

@@Matfridt yes you absolutely correct and we’ll never know for sure. But what I will say ,the top riders for the grand tours would probably still be the same names. Sad to say but I think they all thought they had to do something to be at the same level. Right from the beginning of the Tour de France there were drugs. Have you seen the pictures of riders foaming at the mouth. Sad I know, but still the top riders will be the top riders whatever

@@Matfridt no telling how many were doping. The domestiques and the supers all had to be aswell to help their GC guys

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@@Btstaz thanks for watching me back in the day, hope you still enjoy these videos 😁

Hey! Yes I did 😁

@@TrueSportsLore Awesome! That froome video is one of my all time favorites on cycling youtube!

@@thanosduckplease thank you! Hopefully some of these are as goof

Different forms of testosterone can have vastly different half lifes. It can range from months to hours.

@@molochz but from cyclists ridding professionally in that era (I raced as an amateur), testosterone didn’t give you a performance boost. It doesn’t help in endurance. It didn’t make sense.

@@Spartacus713 So? What does that have to do with anything? If it's on the banned list, then it's prohibited. Simple as that. Besides, Testosterone would 100% help with recovery.

This is the thing.. He claimed he took Andriol, a oil based oral testosterone, it has a very short life 4-5 hours and most gets destroyed before it passes through the liver, and what's left absorbed by the intestine. The drug is oil based so it will pass through the liver, otherwise the test would damage it. I know this because I was on it for some years before I went to a long term intramuscular injection. Andriol is considered a bottom feeder by gym bunnies, it isn't effective for body building. You cant stay on it that long or you will get a fatty and damaged liver. For Floyd to ride as he did the day after getting crushed, took much much more than Andriol, he was jacked on something completely different

Well, I would suggest definitely a bloodbag, and perhaps he took some risks with his hematocrit, but do you think he was on smth else? Amphetamine? @@S2Sturges

A motorised bike? C'mon dude, what benefit would 3 D size batteries in the seat tube really provide? The 5min worth of juice doesn't outweigh the hours of extra weight. 20 years on an Ebike batteries are the size of an original gen 1 mobile phone still😂

As for the bottles. He overheated and was dehydrated during stage 16.It was 40°/ 100°f that day and unlike the peleton, he had a team car exclusively all to himself and on demand. Dehydration and hunger wasn't an issue and the majority of water was simply used as a tool to keep as cool as possible physically with perhaps an added mental bonus. Another factor was the benefit of maintaining a constant power output out alone, rather than sustained on and offs which are more physically and mentally draining. In training He would regularly put out 300watts over 6 hours and during this stage he maintained a 280w average. Combine that with his talent at descending and gaining time, the fact everyone was tired from the previous stage, the mistake they made in letting him breakaway, the sheer determination and mental fortitude that separates the greats from the good and the audacity to believe and back himself with such tactics it was made it all to be so incredible.

Well you can...but you never know when the wheel will collapse

Yes you can you just reach down and loosen off the caliper. The wheel isn't going to collapse

Not true. The wheel will go out of true, but it’s still rideable.

exactly, that was his biggest sin. if he doesn't come back, I doubt he gets caught.

Took a prescribed steroid once after an injury when trying to put in extra miles. Works great for day to day recovery.

Because it looks staged. The thing is: There is a big debate about motor doping, meaning you put a small electric motor in the tube of the bicycle and that motors your bike to give you a little push. Just a small notch over your opponents. There are x ray scans theses days in competition to avoid any such offenses, but these tests were implemented only after actual cases arose. There was one female rider that got caught. This topic is more often discussed in relation to Fabian Cancellara‘s win over Tom Boomen in Flanders I think (or roubaix). Just google it. It’s a really big fan theory, but it’s also a bit ridiculous. However, as there are discussions about motor doping, this one was very suspicious for sure. He changed his bike so casually like „okay, battery is empty, let’s switch to the lighter bike now and finish the stage.“

It's not, but some people are convinced motordoping is happening, partially due to Greg Lemond not having a clue. But even today, batteries are too big and heavy for it to be a good idea, especially on mountain stages. Imagine how much a batteri would weigh in 2006 then.

because possible motor on it

Not at that time. Nowadays, that bike change is very suspicious. If you Watch all the stage, he never seems to push on the pedals and he continously put water on his head and body... For the heat? Or to simulate stress and sweat? Look at his face when he arrive. It was all so strange just to think that he was only chemical doping.

There was a bike with a fresh battery for the motor

​@@alechull4300lol you seen Ebike batteries? What was he running 20 years ago, 2aa batteries in the seat tube that would be flat in 30sec. Fk me, have a think about it yeah.

I think phonak knows a thing or two about making small batteries@@yeahnah7220