In this excerpt from Part 1 of ESPN’s 30 for 30 “LANCE,” Lance Armstrong describes how he connected with trainer Michele Ferrari and how he followed the advice of Ferrari “to the word,” including when it came to the use of erythropoietin (EPO), a banned drug that stimulates the production of red blood cells.
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27 Comments
Its a typical republican… blame everybody else… admit nothing… lying crook.
People just like to believe in teddy bears and unicorns. Lance decided to look at cycling for what it was during this time and decided he would be a winner and the best at it, that same mindset made him beat the cancer in his testes, lungs and brain. You may not like it but you’re living in dreamland if you think a clean rider was going to win the TDF back then.
Everybody did epo at thet time so lence was the best.
The only thing Lance is sorry about is that he got caught.
He is the legend.
Tienes la fama de ser el mejor del mundo y eso nadie delo quita digan Loque digan
Lance Narcissistic Armstrong.
LA will always be the TDF goat
What someone needs to do is Crack wide open the obvious doping of Big Mig Indurain. Eddy Mercx is less obvious, but those documentaries would be much more interesting than post 1990 ones where it's already assumed that pretty much everyone were doped.
If only the NBA, NFL, MLB would do their dirty laundry, out in the open.
Goodbye To the entire US economy…. 🤣
In another lifetime Ferrari would be regarded as a genius
Michele Ferreira is a genius 🦁
Nothing but a sociopath on a bicycle.
All you need I red cells
Eddy Merckx was also a cheater
I completely respect him being this real. It happens. Denying it and all the other negative stuff against others is what bothered me. I can deal with this. And I completely understand.
As italian I feel shame for what happened, cause we clearly the moral responsible of the doping culture created, developed and spreaded in cycling from 80s. Doctors, institutions, connivance of politics at any level were crucial to build all that mess. Think about former Prime Minister Romano Prodi who was close friend of Conconi (Michele Ferrari's teacher) and proposed him even as vice minister of Public Health.
We also indirectly killed Marco Pantani, who was used by the system as symbol at his apex nd then treated as rotten apple to expose.
Remind 80s-90s italian athletes were at top in multiple disciplines, Marco did Giro-Tour double in 1998 and then, when the fake clean-up started, he faced multiple inquiries even though laws didn't exist (rule of law, basic principle of modern democracies), anybody else did the same thing with rhEPO and hematocrit levels and the cycling context kept doing exactly the same with the system built around LA-Us Postal.
For that thing he fell into depression, self-destructive spirals and cocaine abuse, leading himself to kind of indirect suicide.
doping under michele ferrari. He never trained he was told what his doping schedule would be
michele ferrari is a genius
Three words… Lying, cheater loser!
Lance is a lot of bad things. When thats said he is still the biggest idol Ive ever had. His dedication for those seven tour win is impressive course almost all of them where doped.
EPO
Winners do what it takes. He just happened to be caught and now the attention is away from the rest who are taking the lead.
GOAT! 7x TDF Champion.
Anyone who uses EPO, drugs, or any other for of illegal enhancement in sports is a DOPE !!
I give my dogs Red Cell and I always repeat what Ferrari said to Lance. My gf has no clue what I’m talking about lol
It's interesting how the sport still accepts former dopers while shunning others. Pretty selective in their outrage.