Tour de France 1996 Stage 16 EPO Hautacam

Tour de France 1996 Stage 16 Agen -- Lourdes Hautacam 192km

SBS TV Australia broadcast of UK Channel 4 coverage. Introduced by Michael Tomalaris. Commentary by Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen, with reporting from Gary Imlach.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• tour de france
• cycling
• cyclisme
• ciclismo
• wielrennen
• Bjarne Riis
• Jan Ullrich
• Laurent Dufaux
• Peter Luttenberger
• Miguel Indurain
• Toni Rominger
• luc leblanc
• richard virenque
• Laurent Roux
• Alex Zulle
• Laurent Brochard
• Leonardo Piepoli
• Piotr Ugrumov
• Fernando Escartin
• Abraham Olano

[markyboy28able99]

prefer to watch them on EPO than not. More attacks

[TheAndreas240]

11:40 more epicness!

[TheAndreas240]

09:51 epic moment!

[xxxAloopzzz]

@xxxAloopzzz And more than that, he was also into alternative treatment like acupuncture and so on. Which might have been the difference if he was in a clean peloton. And ofcourse doping is not something I would like to defend, but I think that most of the riders were doped.... Mr 60, who Ulrich could follow after a push like that. Rominger and Zülle aint riding bad either. Now come on and hate me.

[xxxAloopzzz]

Remeber The GFestina Case? That was an Entire team with systematic doping, Riis admitted that he took it by himself. I have a feel everybody was on something back then. Riis is a man who likes the small details, back then he was working on the bike together with the mechanics, he had a "special"gear, where he made it look like he was in the big gear durin his attack on this stage, and only this stage to demoralize his competitors.

[Xavierthegreat666]

Lol, Sherwen's analysis and reading of the race at about 10-11 minutes was so wrong!

[Xavierthegreat666]

I find the "EPO" in the title a bit hypocrite, and distasteful. Sure, Riis was using it, and he confessed. But then most of these guys were doing something. Remember that it wasn't until 98 that the "50%" hematocrite rule first appeared. I

[sprintbass]

i agree with that comment...the thing i cant understand is that riis admited he doped...he was even seen back then as mr 60% percent.you dont get 60% unless your living on mt everest, hell the moon perhaps? My thing is why is this confessed cheat still in cycling and running one of the best teams in the world..he was a nobody till 1992 or 1993...and if not for drugs he would have never been anything..and yet he is held in respect and can manage teams? and this is OK? shows how f'd up things are.

[handkerchieftree]

When I first saw this, live in '96, I thought it the most stunning, exhilarating feat of athletic excellence.

Now we know it was almost the squalid nadir of pro-cycling's shame.

"Almost", only because the verdict's not yet in on Armstrong.