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  • everybody hates french people!!! right?

  • are you talking serious that lance should have waited for beloki, or that because of this he shouldn't say contador should have waited for schleck last year? you must be joking... beloki fell at more than 80 km/h with 3 kms to go, it was obvious that he had broken something + the race was wide open, even if it was a slight fall it'd be a different situation from last year's tour, where the GC battle was only on andy x contador while here there were several riders still in contention.

  • I feel so bad for Beloki

  • Nah. Armstrong rocks.

  • Armstrong ASSHOLE

  • when I heard Beloki at 1:20 and iremembered that this was the end of his cycling career, I almost started to cry because I could feel the pain of him.

  • the 11 dislikes are french haters who deny that Armstrong is the greatest cyclist ever

  • Luckily nobody fell like this going over that corner today

  • God I feel bad for Beloki.. :(

  • Poor Beloki, he was very unlucky

  • not like lance armstrong had a choice there...

  • haha when Armstrong takes the Grass, the Other are Looking like that: WTF a pair Seconds he whas behind us, now he's on the Front :-O How Armstrong did it? :D haha Very Nice :P

  • Painful screamings those from the spaniard... But I think he got more injured deep inside his heart cause he surely felt everything was over.

  • Ligget and Sherwin were gold on that call. Such a dramatic moment.

  • Lance Armstrong: smartest rider in the history of the tour. Joseba Beloki was Armstrongs main competetor that year and he broke his left femur, hip, and left shoulder in that fall and never competed seriously again.

  • the guys behind the tree were seing the race and protecting from the sun that was really strong.

  • @talibe801 depends on your definition of hot weather, I was there and thought it was quite nice weather.

  • @gurusson good for you.

  • Vinokourov, Ulrich and Beloki could all beaten Armstrong that year if they had a little bit of luck. If Ulrich didn't wait for Lance or didn't fall in the time trail. If Ulrich didn't ride after Vino. And Beloki...

  • the day Belokis career ended...

  • The dismount could have been better.

  • 1:12 listening to him screaming made me cry

    hope he's doing much better these days.

  • @doctortalk121 Shit. That was him screaming. Hopefully he was alright, his scream sounded like it hurt as hell. Any idea where he was injured?

  • @chenshiwei He broke his hip or his pelvis I can't remember which.  After that injury he never got back to the form he had in 2003.

  • what a stupid reactions here....

    Armstrong didn't cheat dudes, it was his only chance to escape... and btw, does it matter ???

    Beloki his carreer was ended, that's important !

    Poor beloki..

  • Maybe the guy behind the tree was waiting for the peloton to pass ? -.- This was probably the most important moment last decade in cycling. Beloki was going to win the Tour, or at least give a hell of a fight - for sure.

  • SaMoHi14... what else was to do in that situation?... descending @ 100 km/h in a slippery surface corner?... you wanted him to run over beloki?... or switch on his Formula 1 traction control?... i think you have never ride a bike in you life dude

  • explain to me how thats not cheating?

  • @SaMoHi14 he lost all his speed and had to regain it....

  • @SaMoHi14 Because he lost more time then he gained. Once he was back on the bike and going, people who were behind him before where now in front of him.

  • @SaMoHi14 Technically it is, but he did not gain any position, and it was the safest thing for him to do. The UCI rules as well as USA Cycling rules do state cutting the course to gain position is not allowed. In this cause he did not gain any position on the road, and was unavoidable. The officials did review this and clear him of any wrong doing.

  • INDURAIN ERA MUCHO INDURAIN

    ERA UNA MAKINA

  • Phil Liggit kicks ass!

  • Donaot lock your brakes when going down hill!!!

  • @1970Speed I think it was the hot road that ripped his tire off the rim..anything to counter that at high speeds wouldn't have worked anyway.

  • @1970Speed retard! his backwheel slipped on soft tarmac!!! learn to ride urself first!!!

  • Rauffe, 05000 La Rochette, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France Google Map

  • Was Beloki seriously hurt?

  • @Micklol Yep he fractured his femur wrist and i think shoulder too. Pretty much ended his career.

  • From what I could tell, Armstrong stayed in the race but still fell back a number of spots in the peloton after having been in front with Beloki. There are people around to help those who fall. It's not like Beloki fell off and got impaled on a flagpole.

  • @oldirtybrza yeah its not like this ended his career or anything -_-

  • Beloki was a great rider who sadly never recovered from this accident. A sad loss for cycling. Chapeau!!!

  • he's got quite a buldge

  • No es por ponerme del lado de Armstrong pero qué iba a hacer, dejar ir al resto? Lo de Beloki y Schleck son accidentes, en parte mala suerte y en parte culpa suya. La caida que sufrió Armstrong en Luz Ardiden no fue culpa suya y creo que Ullrich hizo bien. En fin, que todos han hecho bien, incluido Contador. Otra cosa son las declaraciones.

  • Contador, tienes que vengar a Beloki, despues de ver esto no solo no hay que esperar, sino que teniamos que ir pisando cabezas de corredores caidos, y es que el Armstrong no solo no le espera sino que en su afan por reincorporarse se atraviesa delante de los corredores, vaya leccion de deportividad, que se metan el fairplay por el culo!!!

  • Armstrong está acabado y sólo puede obtener protagonismo con sus declaraciones.

  • Armstrong ha dicho que Contador debió esperar a Schleck. Menudo hipócrita, después de ver este vídeo. Ya vemos cómo él se despreocupa totalmente de Beloki.

  • The most ridiculous part of this is that now he says that Contador should have waited for Schleck...shut up!

  • Armstrong said that Contador had to wait Schlech in today's stage but here is seen as clearly not to worry about Beloki

  • those cries by beloki, I almost have to cry when I watch this. he had such a big career waiting for him and then this. one of the saddest stories of the TdF

  • I saw this live on TV when it happened, and I still can´t believe Armstrong managed to do that! It looks like frickin´scifi!

  • Ennyit Amstrongról!!!

    Egy (igazi) "sportember"???- ilyen helyzetben megáll(t volna), és semmibe véve a sárga trikóért (első helyezett) vívott küzdelmet segít vetélytársának!!!

    Ehelyett Amstrong...

  • @klaccy16 Idióta! Mit segített volna? Ráköp a vállára, és azzal összeforrasztja Beloki törött kulccsontját? Szép dolog lett volna, ha megáll, de semmi értelme nem lett volna, a videón látszik, hogy B. csapattársai is csak nézni tudják.

  • @andrew7taylor no ki is az idióta? az a szerencséd, hogy te vagy ennek a videónak a "tulajdonosa", különben úgy repülnél innen...

    Egyébként meg látszik, hogy nem értesz a kerékpársporthoz, mert nem a szakmai részét magyaráztad meg, hanem belekötsz másnak a hozzászólásába! Minden magyar "kommentelő" írásával ezt fogod csinálni? ennyit erről:D

  • PAULINHO PAULINHO PAuILINHO

  • Yeah, this crash ended his career. So unlucky.

  • nice anyone have a good training programme for a beginner

  • why did armstrong got off the road and cut though the field

  • Ouch. I bet that still hurts...

  • CHEATER!

  • Beloki could beat Lance in 2003, he was attacking all the time, and he putted Lance under presure, big big shame that this happened...

  • FUCK YEAHH

  • 1. that was such a hard fall...

    2. this wasnt cheating

    3. wtf was that dude just waiting behind that tree? whered he come from?

  • Im wondering what Vinokourov was yelling at armstrong when he bypass him

  • dude watch beloki hit his tail bone that looks real bad.

  • @rikuwillkillu broke his femur and ended his professional career entirely.

  • shit dude.... that would break my heart

  • cheating? your joking right? it would have been dangerous for him to get back onto the course any earlier, he had to go left of beloki - and you saw the other riders overtake him as they stayed on the course - the main thing from this is how it ended beloki's career, horrible crash, poor man

  • I don't know... that kinda seemed like cheating to me. I mean, if a road on the course went one mile south, then made a sharp 180 turn and came back north a mile, would it still be okay to just drive off road 50 meters or so, and skip the 2 miles of road race? The only difference here is distance... but where is the line drawn? It seems to me he should be required to get back onto the course as near as possible to where he got off.

  • Inacreditável a manobra de Lance, foi rápido. Estava sendo o melhor Tour de Beloki. Foi uma pena sua queda!

  • Lance was as fast across the dirt as they were on the road!

  • Amazing bike skills by Armstrong

  • @Futteklap

    he is just a clown, he could have stop to se what was happening to joseba, but unstead of that he keeped cycling, he must shut up saying that contador should have wait andy on monday

  • @neilonevp Right, so Armstrong should have climbed up the slope, let Vinokourov go and see how Beloki was doing, who obviously wouldn't be able to finish the race. Now that's proper logic...

  • @neilonevp Attacking the yellow jersey during a mechanical is a different point of (non-) chivalry. Not being able to handle the bike is a different story than throwing a chain. I would want ot win man-to-man not man-to chanifail. #assclown

  • @neilonevp Nonsense. No point in stopping at this speed; I'm sure he could tell Joseba's tour was over by the severity, what could he do? He was thinking about avoiding a crash himself. You see virtually no one else stopped. This is not comparable to attacking the yellow jersey when there is a mechanical failure.

  • @neilonevp Agree, but cycling is an unfair sport. But you still have to admit that it takes some technique to do what Armstrong did.

  • Beloki was only 40" seconds behind Armstrong (mostly because of Team TT) and was stronger than ever in mountain

  • this should be more a comment on Beloki than Armstrong. he was a good as Armstrong then.

  • Es una pena, ese año Beloki podia haberle dado un susto a Lance, y quitarle el Tour. Se le veia muy fuerte

  • Ese año Armstrong sacó solo 1 minuto al segundo (Ullrich) y Beloki estaba muy fuerte. Yo creo que podía haberle dado bastante más que un susto

  • If you stop the vid at :31 you can clearly see 8 riders going around that turn as Armstrong covers the grass. stop it again at :38, you can count 6 riderspassing him under the banner...From :39 - :42 you can clearly count 7 riders go past him and the 8th rider pulls in behind Him. So, no, advantage other than an Adrenalin boost. Even the Race commish determined that Armstrong didn't gain anything by the shortcut and congratulated him on his quick thinking to avoid Beloki and crashing himself.

  • menudo viaje tiró beloki

  • GRANDE BELOKI GRANDE!

  • (@ AbuMaxOne)

  • great solution!

  • It's not stupid to say Amstrong was lucky... and helped by the short, toasted grass as you can see off roads

  • For people who don't know, the tar roads in France melted because of heat which raged for weeks. But it was not so much compared to what would happen after: in August, we knew the worst heat wave since 1976: caused 10.000 deaths; severe water use restrictions; temperatures who never fell under 25°C (=77°F) during the night and exceeded 35°C (=95°F) during the day!

  • epic

  • Beloki was going to win it that year. Real bad luck

  • Sad to see Beloki falling so hard, good old times with Beloki, Lance and Vino...

  • Whoow... Are you France ?

    Take it easy dude..

  • They probably weren't crying because they were either dead or dead.

  • Grande Ze Azevedo! Desiste de um bom lugar na geral para apoiar o seu lider. Grande Atitude. Parabens Zé !

  • You are an idiot! All the bikers were behind him and when he crossed the field he lost his speed and got behind them. So he didn't get anything good from crossing the field except not getting hurt. You are so pissed off he is the best that you want him to get hurt. You are so pathetic!

  • look at the video idiot. there were at least 5 behind him that he got in front of after the shortcut.

    its right in the video. how can u be so stupid not to see it!

    IDIOT MORON

  • "look at the video idiot. there were at least 5 behind him that he got in front of after the shortcut."

    Yea he was ahead of them for a split second while going 0mph. They passed him immediately and he had to sprint to get back in the pack.

    In the end, he gained nothing and spent more energy than the other guys. How is that an advantage, you "IDIOT MORON"?

    Please pull the stick out of your ass and shove it through your heart, you illogically thinking douche bag.

  • Hey asshole I would like to see you try to keep up with them and see if they are pussies, you wouldn't last a minute fatass

  • there were 5 behind him that he got in front of after the shortcut? That sentence doesn't make any sense, if they were behind him originally then he was already in front of them.. maybe you meant there were 5 ahead of him that he got in front of?? That would at least be grammatically correct argument. Still wrong.

  • Did he not broke his hip??? I know he never came back to cycling after that crash:(

  • Que queda, esta doeu de certeza absoluta!

    O Armstrong saíu-se bem....

  • Ok so tomorrow i want you to jump of a scyscrapper to prove your theory. You deserve to feel his pain you fucking idiot! The guy had his hip broken in 2 places and so were his elbow and wrist. Read something before you talk you retard!!!

  • Szegény Beloki nagyon megjárta, ha jól emlékszen a kulcscsontja tört le és Lance nyerte a Tourt

  • OMG! Lance cheated? mdr c'est terrible!

  • Approximately how fast was he going? And I assume that Beloki was one of the favorites prior to the crash? And Lance Armstrong didn't gain any ground by taking the detour, he lost a little ground though of course a ruling was made that he was justified to do what he did. What else could he have done? Run over the guy on the ground?

  • The man holding that little child on his shoulders just next to the groaning bloodied cyclist is one of the most stupid people I've ever seen caught on video. What a moron! GET THAT KID AWAY, SICKO!

  • It's not that bad. I'm sure the kid has seen much worse then a bike crash. Get off your internet podium.

  • I think you are slliightly overreacting to that. Afterall they've just witnessed one of the most prominent moments in the whole of the Tour de France's (then) 100 year history. Shame for Beloki and the race that year but c'est la vie. In my opinion that kid and dad are lucky to be there!

  • this is the crash that ruined Beloki's career. He broke his femur in 2 places, also his elbow and wrist.

  • Jesus Christ...what a crash =(

    But it also set up one of the most amazing moments in cycling

  • Hey!!!!!!! he cheated he took a shortcut

  • echt schade für beloki, war echt ein klasse fahrer vor dem sturz, danach leider echt nicht mehr in form gekommen. aber was armstrong da macht is ja auch einfach nur unglaublich. freue mich ihn dieses jahr endlich wieder auf dem rad zu sehen, hoffe er kann mit leipheimer und contador mithalten.

  • is that Beloki crying out in pain? cuz that would hurt

  • he´s not crying cause of the pain... it´s because of loosing the tour

  • hum.. not sure , crashing on this road would burn anyone on this flesh ! but maybe his nerves cracked in same times

  • @youRIDE7 i dont think its just because of the loss, a broken hip causes much pain

  • Beloki war nie mehr derselbe...

  • jens voigt is good for what he does, but better than lance in the grand tours??? PLEASE!!!

  • he said better than Jan not Lance, yet they havent won a tour so...yea

  • hey RICH you need to get over that European dream that since Jan suffered so much to finish 2nd or 3rd, that somehow makes him better than Armstrong. ...it makes him 2nd or 3rd, that's all...Wanna feel better...here's a bone for you....Armstrong is not in the class of Hinault or Mercxx and probably others, simply because they won many many classics and many other grand tours...not just the tour de france. Jan was tough, but I consider Zabel, or Jens Voigt better.

  • sniff...sniff

  • +1 agreed. IF Lance had gone for some of the classics I doubt he would have managed some of his victories in TdF so easily or even at all. Jan was good but only ever seemed to get his act together a couple of times for the Tour, and he won once and second by under a minute the other time.

    Jens is a legend, pure and simple. Remember him pulling back Jan? Perfect example of what makes a cyclist.

  • it doesnt mater if he took a short cut to avoid a crash and beside they probaly wauld ad time onto that

  • thats hurts

  • okay for those of you that didnt get my comment below it was a JOKE! Get over it and anyway he will never be the rider that Jan was, your hero said it him self! so what if he didnt play the game the right way, wouldnt we all love to not train and then do the tour and finish top3!!!!

  • jajajajaja the commentator said his crossing the course, jajajjajajja you see the short cut.

  • here again he proves that he's the best by keeping his head!

  • such a drama!! this was the end of what could be a fantastic career for Joseba Beloki! unbelievable still..

  • his name is Lance Armstrong u numskull!!!

  • notice how the cyclist from behind eventually got infront of him? therefore, not a shortcut

  • Actually the official ruling by the Tour panel was that he had no other option and was forced to take the "detour" through the grass. If someone did something like this otherwise, you would be penalized in time or disqualified. What he did is incredibly risky as those bikes aren't made for that type of terrain, he risked a lot by continuing on down that hill, but he has mountain biking history which is one of the reasons why he hung on. It was risky, but he ended up maintaining his game.

  • Don't think he does have mtb history - he used to be a runner, then a triathlete, then a roadie. Sure hes done a couple of mtb events (leadville) but I wouldn't class him as a cyclist with world class mtb skills. World class road skills maybe... and thats all he needed here.

  • He raced a few Norba races back around 2000. I remember he placed 6th and 4th in the Mt Snow Nat Championships long track and short track races.

  • hey man wtf with you this is Lance Armstrong the only man that won seven tour france

  • si, the only man that won seven tour france !! dopado hasta las cejas!!!!

  • legendary

  • Beloki broke his femur in two places and his arm.

  • ese dia beloki se fracturo la cadera y el femur !!!

  • Didn't it end Beloki's time as a a top pro?

  • This isn't an amazing moment. It's rather a very sad moment.

    I recall that Beloki was number 2 at that moment, and he had very good chances of winning. After he crashed you could actually hear him crying of pain, as he still was lieing on the road. Our danish commentators were abselutely stunned.

    Yes, it was indeed an amazing move by Lance, but the mourns of pain and agony by Beloki overclouds it. He ended his career as professional just after.

  • he retired as a pro in 2006 after being linked to the doping scandal operation puerto

  • YOU ARE RIGHT !!!!!

  • Fake. He was cleared of Puerto. He retired this year.

  • Beloki was going to win that year and deserved it,it was sad, he wasn't lucky enough.

  • barneveld

    Don´t take it to hard, some people dont believe in EVIDENCE. only in germany we take the doping-issues seriously. it dont matter in other countries. they still love bonds, mcgwire, ALL nfl-players, nba-cheaters and so on. AND ALL DOPERS. they just close their eyes, because they cant take the truth.

    Dreamers.... !!!!!!!!

    ARMSTRONG HAS BEEN TESTED POSITIV on Epo and cortisone. You pipo from outside europe cant disscus the hard sad truth away.

  • Barneveld

    You are right, may you have read about the bastard (Armstrong). Us pipo who looked behind the scene, know the truth about this guy. Anyway, he was caught doping. It was just too late.

    Give up to try to convince fools, i tried it too, it´s not going to work. They are ignorants and uninformed. Let them dream on

  • yes, i heard that they found in a frozen blood-case from 1999 (when armstrong won his first tour!) that he took EPO!!!! that explain everything....armstrong was just lucky not to be caught!! armstrong=biggest cheater in history of bycicle!!!!

  • cheater!!!! Lance "the biggest doper in the history of the sport" Armstrong doped more then any other driver!!! ITS A SHAME THAT HE WAS NEVER BENN BANNED FROM THE TOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • utter crap you fool

  • no, its just the truth!!

  • not.. lol

  • what fuck are you saying.... this is only your fantasy!!!

  • thats not "fantasy" you dumbo!! THATS FACT!!!

  • you DUMBO?? what? are you stupid?

    In all his career Lance wasn't never find positve to antidoping... for this i think that he's one of the best of always, but we can say only that he run only the Tour... but for what i know is the biggest (also the ugly) 3week race in the world!!

    GIRO D'ITALIA rulez!!!

  • you have o.ooooooo% knowladge of tour de france retard!!! IT IS PROVEN THAT ARMSTRONG TOOK EPO BACK IN 1999!!!!!!!! they found it but it was to late to ban him from the tour!!!! guys like you who only post nonsense comments here on youtube should shut there damn fcking mouth!!!!!

  • Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooh, ya bitch. Put ya nails away! lol

  • noo

    armstrong is da bitch not me!!!!

  • Nope. Armstrong aint a bitch. He is an ex pro-cyclist, and probably earnt quite a lot of money. Dont take this the wrong way, but I doubt very much he would care about you hating him either. Rant about something worthwhile. guten abend mein freund.

  • r u a fan of armstrong?????????

  • Very much so. I do triathlons and i love all endurance athletes!!! I am off to Australia in December to do the ironman. Cant wait.

  • for BarneveldDarts a sportive only because is very better than other uses EPO or Doping in general... I hope that this discussion finishes early...

  • Man really feel bad for Beloki. Such an underdog in those years. He deserved a really great position that year.

    And man what a save from Armstrong...pure offroad classic tour de France. He is such a great champion. No matter what any one feels about him being american and all that...he indeed deserved to win the tour so many times...showing this kind of cycling.