Lance Armstrong attack on Mt. Ventoux 2000 Tour de France

Lance Armstrong attacks on the top of Mt. Ventoux to catch Marco Pantini during the 2000 Tour de France. What an amazing uphill sprint!

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[blocfoals]

Greatest doper, yes.

[Kasper Hav]

I guess, Carlos Sastre have had luck passing his EPO-tests, but as a top athlete in cycling the past 20 years, doping yourself has been a must do, if you want to keep up with the other top riders, sadly enough.

[melende2000bis]

The song of Lance is " I want a new drug"

[WanderleiSilva29]

no shit... everyone is giving armstrong shit when 90% of the sport, including football and baseball are doping..... how about looking into Miguel Indurain or any other dominant rider of that era....

and just because your juicing doesnt mean you'll win a tour de france. People forget that you have to have massive talent to reach pro level anyway....

[lelo819]

You do know 75% of athletes are on some sort of HGHs

[Sevnfurdy]

Ah, yes. Thank you.

[theastar94]

Pantani. Died in 2004.

[Mouad Elb]

Watching Armstrong is like watching porn. Ya know it's fake buts good!

[MightyJabroni]

Verdammt richtig. Man muss sich nur mal die Liste der letzten 100 Meter Sprint Rekordhalter anschauen und trifft auf ein who is who des Dopings.

Gerade in Sportarten, wo Ausdauer, Kraft und Geschwindigkeit wirklich ALLES sind, wird Doping immer den Unterschied machen. Mir tut es halt leid für die, die sich den Arsch abrackern, nur um dann doch Staub zu fressen, weil andere sich diese par Prozent mehr sichern.

[MightyJabroni]

Especially own blood doping is relevant. They get the benefits of optimal oxygen saturation through to most intense high altitude training without being as dead tired as they surely would be after such a training regiment. Nobody would ride a tour after such intense training. His condition would be great but he would be dead tired right off the bat. Own blood doping allows to gain the benefits of the training without being tired. And they are not directly detectable, since it is the own blood.

[MightyJabroni]

When I returned to my not-much-above-sea-level-home, I went out to jog one day. And man - was it a breeze! Distances at a speed, that would provide a decent challenge for me under normal circumstances, did feel like half as exhausting. And that was just through to being exposed to high altitude while hiking.

Now imagine what difference it makes for trained pro, who maxes this effect out far further than I did. That is the kind of doping that cyclists look for.

[MightyJabroni]

Artificially increasing oxygen saturation in the blood - even to a degree that would never be achievable through natural means - gives an athlete a huge EDGE in endurance sports.

I once was on a holiday in the alps in south France. I was there for several weeks and did a few hiking trips. The highest led me to over 3000 meters. For someone like me, who lives in central Germany, that was considerable altitude. Sure enough my oxygen saturation had to adapt quite a bit, as I did these trips.