When DOPING Festina Affair DESTROYED Marco Pantani’s DOPED Victory
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- Marco Pantani 's edition The 1998 Grand Boucle was the 85th edition of the race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The 3,875 km (2,408 mi) race was composed of 21 stages and a prologue. It started on 11 July in Ireland before taking an anti-clockwise route through France to finish in Paris on 2 August. Marco Pantani of Mercatone Uno-Bianchi won the overall general classification, with Team Telekom's Jan Ullrich, the defending champion, and Cofidis rider Bobby Julich finishing on the podium in second and third respectively.
The general classification leader's yellow jersey was first awarded to Chris Boardman of the GAN team, who won the prologue in Dublin. Following a crash by Boardman on stage 2 that caused his withdrawal, Ullrich's sprinter teammate Erik Zabel took the race lead. He lost it the next stage to Casino-Ag2r's Bo Hamburger, who took it after being in a breakaway. The day after, the yellow jersey switched to another rider from the same breakaway, Boardman's teammate Stuart O'Grady, who took vital seconds from time bonuses gained in intermediate sprints. He held it for a further three stages, until pre-race favourite Ullrich won stage 7's individual time trial, moving him into the overall lead. The next day, Laurent Desbiens of Cofidis finished in a breakaway with a large enough margin to put him in the yellow jersey. Ullrich regained the race lead two stages later as the Tour went into the Pyrenees. Following his poor showing in the opening week, Pantani placed second and first, respectively, on the two Pyreneean stages. He then won stage 15, the first in the Alps, to replace Ullrich in the yellow jersey, and kept it until the race's conclusion.
Zabel won his third consecutive points classification and Julich's teammate Christophe Rinero, fourth overall, was the winner of the mountains classification. Ullrich was the best young rider and the most combative was Casino-Ag2r's Jacky Durand. The team classification was won by Cofidis. Tom Steels of Mapei-Bricobi won the most stages, with four.
The race was marred throughout by a doping scandal, known as the Festina affair. Before the race began, Willy Voet, an assistant of the Festina team, was arrested at the Franco-Belgian border when doping products were found in his car. The affair broadened and the team was expelled after top personnel admitted to widespread doping. Police raids on numerous teams during the course of the race led to two riders' strikes and the withdrawal of several teams and riders. Due to the controversy, the race became known by the nickname "Race de Farce". In July 2013, retrospective tests for recombinant EPO made in 2004 were made public, revealing that 44 out of 60 samples returned positive tests.
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0:00:00-0:02:23 Intro
0:02:23-0:04:50 How FAT Doped Jan Ullrich arrived to Dublin
0:04:50-0:07:39 How DANGEROUS Doped Festina arrived to Dublin
0:07:39-0:09:48 How MEGA Doped Marco Pantani arrived to Dublin
0:09:48-0:13:36 How Spanish/French DOPED teams arrived to Dublin
0:13:36-0:16:09 Festina Affair begins with Willy Voet arrested
0:16:09-0:20:06 Prologue Chris Boardman
0:20:06-0:22:13 Stage 1 Tom Steels / Chris Boardman
0:22:13-0:25:31 Stage 2 Jan Svorada / Erik Zabel
0:25:31-0:28:07 Stage 3 Jens Heppner / Bo Hamburger
0:28:07-0:31:00 Stage 4 Jeroen Blijlevens / Stuart O’Grady / Festina Affair
0:31:00-0:32:50 Stage 5 Mario Cipollini / Stuart O'Grady
0:32:50-0:39:30 Stage 6 Mario Cipollini / Festina Team Expulsion
0:39:30-0:46:03 Stage 7 Jan Ullrich ITT Correze / Tugboat show
0:46:03-0:49:27 Stage 8 Jacky Durand / Laurent Desbiens
0:49:27-0:51:48 Stage 9 Leon Van Bon / Laurent Desbiens
0:51:48-1:07:05 Stage 10 Rodolfo Massi DOPED Aubisque Show
1:07:05-1:22:37 Stage 11 Marco Pantani Plateau de Beille / TVM Affair
1:22:37-1:28:13 Stage 12 Tarascon Strike / Tom Steels
1:28:13-1:33:54 Stage 13 Daniele Nardello / Jean Marie Leblanc Show
1:33:54-1:36:18 Stage 14 Stuart O'Grady
1:36:18-1:39:34 Preview Stage Grenoble-Les Deux Alpes
1:39:34-2:02:58 Stage 15 Marco Pantani Galibier DOPED SHOW
2:02:58-2:12:51 Stage 16 Jan Ullrich DOPED Revenge / Massi Detention
2:12:51-2:24:40 Stage 17 Aix les Bains Strike / Bjarne Riis the TRAITOR
2:24:40-2:26:36 Stage 18 Tom Steels / TVM leaving the race
2:26:36-2:29:39 Stage 19 Marcus Backstedt / Terrados Liberation
2:29:39-2:32.08 Stage 20 Jan Ullrich ITT Le Creusot
2:32:08-2:38:15 Stage 21 Tom Steels / Marco Pantani / Ending - Sport
Thank you so much for waiting and patience! It's been weeks of work to bring you a documentary on the biggest doping scandal in the history of sport, as well as a tremendously hilarious edition of the Grand Boucle. It has been a pleasure and I hope you enjoy it very much, at least as much as we did making this video for you. Best regards and see you at the ascent of La Lanza in 1998.
How do you sign up for your paid subscription? Your channel is the first I feel obligated to pay for bc it’s so good.
On point👌.
Great job and had some great laughters😂,keep the joy and very much appreciated 🎉greetings from Belgium
This is like watching the tour all over again for the first time but with commentary based in truth. I love it. It is nostalgic, educational, and entertaining
"Risen from the crashes like a phoenix from the ashes" - you are a true poet
I can’t believe this is free. God bless you.
There's a 'Thank You' button where you can give a one off couple of pound / Euro etc. I only mention it because I didn't know it was there! Guessing a relatively new feature on YT.
YES!!!! I've been waiting for this one! Can't wait to get to Stage 15. However, if I don't hear the expression "doped to the eyebrows" I fear I'm going to be disappointed.😁
Correct me if i am wrong. Is that a normal expression in english? Because as a Spanish native speaker, this is a spanish expression: hasta las cejas. I think this channel is connected to another spanish channel called ciclismohoy owned by a guy that before had a famous channel of tops called CORETOPS. I love this one and ciclismohoy, both channels are so fun... My question is who owns this one? The spanish or the english guy... the content of both channels is exactly the same
This is something akin to a comedy and extended tour coverage similar to tour + in which Ligget and Sherwen would commentate thoroughly albeit objectively. It's so well executed because it demonstrates an exceptional knowledge into cycling history, tour tactics, politics of the sport, and of course the always clean sporting conduct of the riders and teams. I love Tour+ , but I love this just as much because of the delivery of the commentary. It's like poetry inside out, exposing all of the ugliness of our golden era of pro cycling with the utmost degree of eloquence.
That Christophe Rinero guy really is exceptionally well known among those having watched that whole masterpiece of a TDF breakdown.
Very thankful for your work, buddy. You’re a king.
Settling in for this epic! Absolutely love this era of cycling.
“Our favorite cokehead showed big cajones and pedaled like a titan…” it’s lines like this that make this channel the best. It’s better than poetry.
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@FITNESSOVER45 another banger line
Bravo, sir. You have delivered a true masterpiece.
Thanks!
this is one of the greatest pieces of original content i've seen on the internet since its inception
Holy shit! 2h30 of Cycling Highlights snarkiness? Best day ever
Oh damn, it was this the moment that turned you into the sarcastic mastermind you're now? Damn, what a treat
Probably people watching us like guys look at Angelina in Girl Interrupted but without the beauty thing.
Its still going on today, all the doped records are being smashed every year.
Thankyou for this video...
Same in athletics as record breaking puts bums on seats in stadiums around the world...all dirty sports now
I watched your channel nonstop while training for my marathon. The narration gets me so pumped up. Whoever you’re using, the guy is a gem.
gotta love how Rinero went from 'unknown' to 'lesser unknown' and 'well known' to 'Worldstar' in a matter of days
Movie can begin, I prepared some good wine for this dramatic spectacle :) Thank you, I think our patience will be reworded more than enough
The doping era of cycling gave us epic performances, controversy, talking points, spectacles of endurance beyond what is normal, riders pushing the limits beyond breaking point, dodgy doctors , dodgy director sportifs and screaming crowds by the roadside. During the 2023 tdf and vuelta I dozed off quite a bit on the sofa tbh. More doping era videos please, this is fabulous.
Yeah I was cool with doping, cos it was still a level playing field really & great to watch. Then Armstrong turned up on his ebike & ruined it all. Hilarious that people still don't realise he was mechanical doping right from the start & it still goes on now😂
ebike! sponsored by MotoMan.
@@cyclinghighlights his "pedal spinning technique" was a total joke, obvious cover for using an ebike 😂
Why did he need to blood dope if he had an ebike?
@@bobjackson3735 cos the ebike just gave him the edge on climbs, time trials, he had to keep up with the peloton most of the time under his own steam.
This is really good. And for cycling fans like me, it gives another perspective to old races.
Well there goes my afternoon. Bless your doped, vascular editor
I’ve been waiting restlessly for this donkey-packed content. And now it’s here! ❤
Fantastic fantastic work!
Thanks for bringing back memories of Pantani on stage 15, have been addicted to watching cycling ever since, even though i forever question what im watching. Tragic how it all ended for him in the end as when he was a teenager, cycling gave him so much joy.
" Dutch Financial supporter of working girls " 🤣🤣🤣
Ive been waiting for soo long for this video, you’re doing amazing work!!
Come on Cycling Highlights, 2.5 hours of doping? You should be banned!
Video played in school's sports class, among first classes-lessons, by law decret.
Brilliant analysis - thank you
Thank you very much. Still hoping for a english speaking episode on Pedro Delgado, because his was both a doped & interesting career, like that time he was late for his own time trial 😂
2 minutes late, yet a week later he'd gone from 197th place to 4th!! 😂
Been waiting for this one❤ greetings from Costa Rica🇨🇷
Loved every single minute of this 🙌
Your knowledge and wit is second to none. Thank you for your hard work. Very much enjoyed.
Been checking every day since you announced you were preparing 1998….and today I check…BAM! 2hrs and a half. It’s gonna be a blast!
Welcome back!!!!! 😊
Yee hoo, I know what Im watching tonight !!
Me too!
"adventurers" 😂. The euphemisms get better and better.
Your best video yet.
Loved it!
The bald man with esthetic complexes… 😂
The Ford Escort user…🤣
Thank you guys so much for all work in delivering this perfect work of art on this tour!
Excellent videos, haven't been as entertained by comedy content since Johnny Monroe was kicked off CZcams. This video could be broken up into 3 parts and if put out every week or so would maybe get the CZcams algorithm showing it to more people as they seem to like consistency, plus there would just be more videos for it to show. Thanks for posting. Best Thumbnails too.
weeks of work = timeless masterpiece which will forever gain views. video every two days = forgettable and topical slop that no in a fortnight cares about
Commentary is just '' DOPE'', , , so funny 😂😂
5:05 Ooooooh! Just Beat It!
You sir give THEEE BEST commentary! Keep it coming plz.
A video on how deals are made within the race would be interesting.... like the 2013 Roubaix where the then unknown Sep Vanmarcke towed Fabian to the line with no attempt to win. If Vanmarcke did not get paid for that he is the stupidest racer ever.
Not finished watching but one thing, which I knew but really stands out, is all the links from then and now! Teams, DS's, Coaches, Podcasters (not just The Move), broadcasters. 😮😮😮.
I think that for the last 40 years it's been virtually impossible to cleanly win a major cycling event.
120 yrs probably
I have no more intense of a love/hate relationship than that I have with Bjarne Riis.
Brilliant as always
thanks for your awsome videos i love the honesty you talk about this its very refreshing in our world of lies ^^ its so funny ppl only look at cycling when it comes to doping while every top sports is like that. ppl really think today that doping is kinda dead cause the contols are better but anyone who has researched this topic knows othrwise. we could make this videos for every top sport. thats the sad truth ppl dont wanna face especialy the ppl who earn money with it. keep up the good work
Positively LOVE your work. Long may it continue and we get to enjoy those awesome videos! 😜👌
This is quite simply EPIC. It must of taken weeks to compile.
That’s true
Brilliant video, good to see the Catholic back in full flow after a quieter 97 tour. You would miss characters like Virenque and Abdou though.
Abdou in Casino could have been hilarious
@cyclinghighlights would have definitely been arrested, probably would have got the Mr Magoo treatment too.
LET THE SHOW BEGIN!
Thank you very much!
Bravo. Bravissimo!
I watch one of these long 3 TDF recaps every night and pass out to it - not because its boring but because its comfy content. I aim to single-handily pump these views to get the word out about how great this channel is but also call out things that I believe are antithetical to its growth. Tit for tat in'it
Epic video!
Now do the Jumbo Visma and Soudal Quickstep merger and/or acquisition!
An epic exposé. What will be revealed in th e next 20 years about the current crop of TUE 🤭users...
"And after the no good, very bad Festina team was kicked out, the Tour never saw Doping ever again..."
Briliant!
Way to go buddy!
It is time for an episode on Andrea Tafi and Davide Rebellin. They have got off lightly on planet cycling stories
Thanks for ALL THIS long long STORY!....I wish this in a BOOK form so I could read to the kiddies for story telling Ha . Just when you think all these shenanigans are OVER Lance and George appear WOW ...
Do you know some editorial interested?
Realizing all this doping was going on was more traumatic for me than realizing that any god is not real. I’m grateful knowing both.
"No cyclist has ever doped, but I can guarantee you that every single Pro cyclist from the first Tour De France to the last Tour De France has DOPED"
=Everyone with a 300$ road bike=
Thank you. I still find myself wondering why I love cycling sport when most of them are still doped. Would be nice how you see current cyclocross. As Flanders citizen, this is in my heart. As Belgian, we all know that eddy merckx was doped… but it is never discussed and we don’t really wanna talk about it…. As European , i can say , everyone is guilty, in the end , it’s just perspectives on how and what people accept…
It's Pro sport. The fact is that it will always attract questionable personalities. It's not a game for nice people. Like any sector where there are big pay cheques and fame up for grabs. Nice people need not apply. Media, film and TV, politics. I could go on. They are cheeks of the same bottom.
Media often stay silent. Doped footballers, doped Kenyans (long distance running), doped tennis players (Rafa the hulk😂). They are all at. Look at the rugby world cup just now. Many of these players will have a pharmaceutical advantage.
What an absolute shit show of a tour. Hilarious recap from you guys as always, cannot wait for the next video!
The chain of causality: Festina busted - Cofidis courageous & resourceful - US Postal's hottest 3 in 1999 - coordinated US Postel doping from 2000 onwards.
Cofidis were out of the game since Casagrande's positive and VDB's trials for Mabuse's affair
I mean their 1998 TdF exclusively. With their doping antics, they awoke the sleeping giant of 1999.
Thanks.
Thank you very much Allan, enjoy the vid!
@@cyclinghighlights Brilliant work again. Funny and informative. La Vuelta 2023...
Next Would be Vuelta 98
Maybe Vuelta 23 for december, could be a special Christmas episode
@02:03:13 - Pantani with a FULL head of hair! Dashing Peter Pan-ish look.
You pronounce the “s” in Col de Murs.
It’s just down the road from me. One of my favourite climbs.
And it's better because of the swiss winniepig
I never cared they doped. The action was exciting and dramatic. They still dope and I still cheer them on. If I was forced to stop watching sports due to participants doping, I wouldn’t be watching sports
Goat❤
Thanks
Thank you very much dude. If you want more long videos suscribe to Cycling Stories, soon we’ll be making this type of videos there
Oh well, since letter sending is looking on the border of obsolete, I am left to thank you and your staff (including your "blessed doped vascular editor" as read from a fellow) in a particular way.
Please do the 1999 tour next
Boardman and Bassons were only clean riders
Great video as always but such a missed opportunity to slam professional EPO-crite Antoine Vayer !
Because Marco Pantani was so clean 😂
dont talk bad about marco pantani he is legend
2 1/2 hours of this guys voice🤯
Financial supporter of working girls, pure gold 😂😂😂
"financial supporter of working girls".........🤣🤣🤣🤣
For the Moonman cameo!
chapeau! who were the riders who were clean, not from a moralistic interest, but from a sporting concern... shouldnt they get medals or something, perhaps a new car or house?
Probably a suscription to this channel forever
In a way the ASO and UCI were very brave to invite the Police in to reveal the massive PED use in the sport - they tried to use shock "name and shame" tactics to scare the living daylights out of the teams. So, probably by the end this was the cleanest Tour on record!
They even tried to play the tough guy by banning a load of people the following year, 1998, and then reporting that the race leader, Armstrong , had failed a doping test during the 98 Tour.
But they bottled it in the end when they accepted US Postal's backdated TUE. Little did they know that that decision would send the sport into a drug fuelled frenzy for at least the next 8 years. They basically refused to stand up to Armstrong as they could not say ”No" to the money, postive adverting and breakthrough into the American market that he gave them 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰. As Puff Daddy said, " It's all about the Benjamins, baby"!!!!!!
When do we get the 1999 TdF recap?!
I can’t make recaps Now because aso and copyright things
This almost makes feel sorry for Michael Boogard. Almost.
This is an “Austrian Rat” away from perfection. Chapeau.
Probably he's an hilarious guy. Looks like Steve Stifler, the legendary fictional character.
"Hey guys, did you know i Won a classic to Lance? And then i sleep with Kristin hahaha.."
Probably it happened
What can you say , About the pirate he was a superman.🎉🎉🎉
need the video on doped zidane and doped ronaldo!
You are the best😂
how many kg's of body weight do top 10 contenders lose across the race per average?
Around 3 kg. Maybe Ulle more and Pantani less.
@@cyclinghighlights thanks
The best would be to let them dope themselves at will, and then we would make a new tour without dope just to see which would have more spectators on tv.
i really can not tell where the irony is and where it is not
🎉
pantani certainly looked back on the galibier (1:49:49) no less than three times in yr short clip: 1st a sideways glance after he launced and two full turns of the head subsequently... but you my friend can engage in all the hyperbole necessary to tell the story...
Hey, Buddy,
As host you no doubt are privy to a lot of information--inside information, it must be added, to which we don't all have the same access.
I appreciate the information, as a long time cycling fan. And I thank both you & your producers for going to the trouble to collate all of these now historic details.
One thing I've noticed, though, both in this podcast & ones in the past : your voice is literally dripping with sarcasm from the first take on thru to the end. That ironic, sarcastic voice suggests that it was all phoney, all a big hoax, the better to dupe the fans & rake in the money. I'll be the first to admit, I was terribly disappointed --shattered, even-- to learn of the secretive duplicuty of such former heroes as Richard Virenque from Festina, Lance Armstrong (along with his rival Jan Ulrich), & of course the super talented Italian climber, Marco Pantani. Effectively, we learned, by drips & drabs, that virtually the enire peleton was doped to one degree or another, mostly on EPO.
Did it ever occur to you, Monsieur le Sarcastique, that perhaps it may have had to do with the extreme demands imposed on the riders of this epoch by the Tour organisers? They had little by little lengthened the stages while making them more mountainous, all in the midst of searing July heat during a typical French midsummer. Did if occur to you, likewise, that the suffering imposed on these athletes was lessened by these modern miracle drugs?
I'm not excusing the duplicity of top riders who lied into microphones day after day, proclaiming their "cleaness " & anti doping stances, just hours after having injested the latest prescribed dose by the team doctor.
Sure, it was largely an act & very disappointing. It's taken years for the cycling community to change its ways & emerge from the honey trap of EPO & similar doping programs, which at their most simplistic levels alleviate the intolerable suffering of cyclists who agree to compete for 21 days in stages of as much as 280 km.
These days the stages are more humanely organizing & shorter, & the team trainers & doctors are mercifully more concentrated on nutrition & science based training. Thank goodness.
Were all grateful for this progress in thinking around the sport of cycling,
But could you please, Monsieur le Host, just modulate your voice a little bit, removing that excess of smugness & hyper sarcasm, maybe at the same time recognising that those riders from the 90's thru the first decade of the 2,000's were not all bad actors but athletes of their time doing their best to thrive & survive in a very difficult time period.
I feel the worst for Pantani, because he went from hero of Italy to the scourge of his country, labeled as a worthless villain & cheat, & -ultimately hounded into obscurity, where he took his own life in an anonymous hotel room. How dare he try to win according to the norm of the time...
I digress. I find your productions irresistible with their historical derail. But I, for one, would greatly appreciate all that historic detail, & even a bit more, minus the sarcasm suggesting that athletes of this particular time were corrupt & cheap, & barely worthy of our notice.
Lance Armstrong & Jan Ulrich were the two top riders of their generation, & competed ferociously for the better part of a decade, to determine who would ultimately walk away with the honors. Now they're friends & converse civilly about their rivalry. They both recognized, as mature adults, that they competed in the oeriod of EPO & other super pharmaceuticals. They wouldn't have survived had they chosen to ignore their team doctors & "Go Clean". It's all part of history now...May the Best man win.
Are you being sarcastic :)
Armstrong was a great actor, Matthew and Ben teached him very well. Thanks for your time.
Eheheh!! I didnt remember about ullrich promisin money to the antidoping system!! Armstrong didnt have this marvellous idea before any other.then!!
During the police raid footage, the image goes dimmer..
Because of copyright
cool . something new
If everyone was doped then it was, technically, fair! LOL
We get it . Everyone was doped ...
Doped to the gills