How JAN ULLRICH BECAME the MOST POWERFUL CYCLIST EVER in 1997 Tour de France
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Jan Ullrich as he is known to his fans Ulle is one of the most controversial cyclists in history. He used epic methods to win 1997 Tour de France and been the crush of the people with a legendary performance in the Stage 9 of 1997 Tour de France in Ordino Arcalis Andorra. This is the story of the super climber Jan Ullrich last days. Want to know what happened? We'll know more cycling tops, from road cycling news, cycling stories, British cycling, road cycling and More road cycling transfer news today on Cycling in 1 Minute. #Cycling, #Sports, #Doping
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No thanks. I can’t because you allresdy on the front manipulat pictures. So the stories are also dubius thougj a lot is true, but does not see the full picture of the time.
When I was 33 years old I suffered from bone marrow cancer 6 years ago. When I felt enervated in the hospital, I always watched his winning time trial in the world championship in Verona, 1999. The view of his powerful performance and his elegant style always made me stronger. I wish he read my comment. Dear Jan, thank you for your help. Tamás, from Hungary.
Indurain: LaPlagne 1995 --> 530 Watts
Indurain: a true pioneer in cycling. The Godfather of EPO
@@mattieaflo Bullshit
To this day, I regret how they took him out of the 2006 Tour. That battle with Basso, who they also removed, could have been one for the ages.
The KAISER one of my favorite riders of all time Ulrich was a so exciting to watch, the battles in the Tours will never be forgotten!
NEVER BE FORGOTTEN, 🙏NEVER
The golden era! Jan and Co really blew up cycling and made it as popular as it is today.
Do some videos about how rife juice is in FIFA etc.
what juice do you mean, fruit juice?
mango juice bro, carb the fuck up!
As soon as he was caught doping, the popularity of road cycling in Germany was back to "normal", to the point where public TV in Germany refused to broadcast the major races. The only ever popular sport in Germany is football. Even if a football player slaughtered his whole family in a 'roid rage, stadiums would still be full, and TV ratings as high as always.
@@einundsiebenziger5488 If this is true, why is the Bundesliga, not an absolute juggernaut? I'm not being combative, I would genuinely like to know? The Premier league is by far the most watched and successful league in the world, but if football is as popular as you said, it is in Germany, how can they not market it better?, the Germans i usually good at this sort of thing
@@Rowlph8888 only that German football is still very traditional in that just over 50% of any club's share must remain with the club itself (the infamous 50+1 rule) - which deters big investors from chipping in as they can't have full control of "their" club as for example in France or the UK... Exceptions being clubs owned by a company from the very beginning such as Bayer Leverkusen, VfL Wolfsburg (Volkswagen), and RB Leipzig (Red Bull)...
That Ullrich guy sent Olano, Riis, Escartin, Dufaux and those kind of favourites to 10 minutes in only 2 days.
A legend.
You forget Pantani, Verinque and Landis.
@@clayvianwilliams6125 Landis? In 1997 Tdf?
@@michaelsteven1090 was replying to the first comment.
A doped legend!
like everyone else so who cares. they still dope but hide it better and we still cheer them
'97 Ullrich was something else, he looked like he was out on a casual sunday cycle, nochalantly popping back to the team car and then blasting back past the peloton who were all on the rivet sat on his saddle looking like he didn;t have a care in the world (which considering the doping going on in the rest of the group was completely insane).
Maybe good he didn't win 10 TDFs, he suffered enough mentally, I don't know how well he would have handled the scrutiny Armstrong eventually faced.
Didn’t he dope as well 🥴
@@Jesusloveswhitetoes he was doped up to his ears.
@@Jesusloveswhitetoes Who knows? I assume that they are not on drugs, until they start being backed by major conglomerates and Other powerful interest groups. E had only just become widelyknown iin 1997. Regardless of the drugs, even later, There is no doubting hHe was 1 of, if not "the most naturally gifted physical specimen", of a rider.Armstrong was literally half his size.who Do you think would have won if it was truly, a level playinField, where each rider was not on a different cocktail Of drugs
Doping began in late 1980s…. Ask the Dutch
Ullrich in 1996 was the biggest promise in cycling in decades
He was better than Riis in 96!
Back then all Teams doped - and they still do, more cleverly and in a very specific and limited way don't cheat yourself. Back then the sport was more dirty but caracters were more interesting and the races were gripping. The athletes were not so streamlined as now.
And risking their lives doing crazy stuff with their bodies...
@@klaatii Yes, they were the guinea pigs of the world of sportsmedicine and Officials just tuned that down a bit but that is all what happened!
No helmets beauty times
If Ullrich had stayed in great shape during the offseason, stayed away from alcohol and drugs, he probably could have won 5-6 Tour De France.
They had the advantage of knowing how to use EPO more efficient than the others for two years, may be three but then everybody was on the same level again.
Minimum!
Someone wins 7 :)
Jan was human, Lance was the machine. That was the difference over the years
@@marck3391 I would say Lance was clever and Jan was naive. Jan was a beast but didn’t use his full potential
if he had armstrongs work ethic, he would've been the greatest ever.
given, he was doped, like all his competition, that what kind of makes it irrelevant tbh
people keep saying "was" as if things changed :D
There's all kinds of doping - even tech doping - today.... and if you think that the ones they have caught are the only ones who did it, think again, sweet summer child. Ulrich was just an average doper like everyone it'd be unfair to him if you singled him out.
He wasn't short lived as you put it, he was around for years afterwards frequently coming second in the TDF.
but then alcohol, food, meds, and drugs came along, roadrage and other encounters with the police. so now he is just another middle aged addict
Incredible footage brings back childhood memories, what an amazing rider he was, true enigma but when he was “on” he was unstoppable. Keep this great videos coming your channel is something else 👌🏽
Ullrich like his famous fellow German Rudi Altig was a pharmacy on a bike.
It was disgusting how fast they went up those mountains, and doing it over and over and over again.
EPO be like that.
was? 😅
Years later we learned why.....a recurring theme in Pro cycling...nothing is believable. Paris Roubaix 2022...45.8 kph race speed average...hilarious
06:50 the German champion never lost this title. He still is the 1997 Tour de France champion.
He didn't say that, he said he lost the hunger to win titles
Best ITT cyclist from the 90s
Actually, Ullrich was first in the Tour de France in 1996 (Bjarne Riis admitted using during this Tour, 20 years latter), 1997 (only official win), 2000 (Amstrong was disqualified), 2001 (same thing), 2003 (and again),
second in 1998 and 2005 (but disqualified)
third in 2004
Total : 5 times first, one second, and one third
That makes him the biggest winner of all time, with Indurain, Hinault, Merckx and Anquetil
But Indurain, Hinault did not win any other podium
Anquetil won 5 times and was third in 1959
Merckx won 5 times and was second in 1975
Consequently Ullrich is the biggest TdF winner of all times
Hinault was second in 84 and 86
@@cyclingstories Yes you are right I did not read correctly his summary. Ullrich is the second best of all times then. ;-)
Lance’s comments on him are just so sad and touching.
we will ever see a stage again that lasts 8 hours?
Maybe in Giro but... not in Tour or Vuelta.
@@cyclingstories ye, in the Giro indeed will save the day. How important do u think it is to have those 8 hr epic mountain stages again? Nowadays, all we here is that is is getting harder, but u dont see those bonks, those collpased and those stages where riders crawl in.
@@cyclingstories Tour might but that would be a flat stage where wind or heat is the factor.
People always forget what a great climber Ullrich was in his first two tours.
Its a shame how he never won it again. If not for Lance he could have had like 10.
That's patently untrue! He didn't finish behind lance 9 times. In fact, he finished second behind Lance on only 3 occasions. His 1998 2nd place behind Pantani was vaild, as he tried and failed to win that year. Perhaps he'd have won in 1996 if allowed. Great rider, but minus Lance he'd have won a total of 4 Tours de France max.
@@Samuel-bu7xr we didn't know because Puerto
@@tatigil1000 what are you saying? I'm simply correcting a statement, that in Lances absence Jan would have 10 Tour wins. Basic maths.
@@Samuel-bu7xr He said that Operation Puerto breaks Ullrich's career in 2006. Maybe could win more
@@ratobrasileiro yes, but you both are failing to read more closely the original comment and then my reply - which deals with the hypothetical absence of Lance in his tour winning years. Jan didn't finish runner up nearly as often as people assume. He missed years, finished 4th and 3rd, and only 3 times was the runner up in those tours.
As for your assertion re. Operation Puerto, do you really think Jan (who by your assumption should have won 4 tours by 2005) would have won a further 6 Tours de France starting from 2006. Irrational thinking mate.
Put another way, would a 40 year old Jan (whose motivation and weight fluctuated his entire career) beat a mid career Contador, every year? Unlikely.
The content of these videos is pretty good. But why do you distort the riders face like that in the thumbnail? It seems really childish.
Best german cyclist ever
I heard he once got into an argument with a motorbike gang while inside a restaurant. He went outside. Climbed into his Porche, And then proceeded to drive over their bikes.
Greatest of all time! Der Kaiser!
he still holds the tdf title
If your gonna celebrate this guy,celebrate Lance. All doped.
Ullrich launched his attack at the foot of Arcalis, not the Ordino
starting to get the hint now, they are all dopers. was once told to me, there are clean athletes out there, just not on TV.
The 'clean' guys finished several hours down on GC.
497W on the final climb, not 447W.
497W on the final climb, not 447W.
who wasn't doping during this time period?
Only a few domestiques which could've not won any race even if they would've been doped.
Jan Ullrich is arguably the most naturally gifted cyclist of the 90s and early 2000's. He wouldve won much more if he were competing in a cleaner era. But sadly for him and for cycling fans, he also got caught up in the arms race of drugs laden peloton racing at the fastest ever speeds in cycling history. Lance Armstrong and his team won 7 TdF's as they were the best at taking drugs and concealing the evidence.
Oh i suppose you think he was clean from the start 🤣
@@david9243 not at all..bjarne riis was doped to the gills when he won TdF in 1996 and Ulrich (team mate) was second. So there is no way he was clean while Riis only doped. But Jan Ulrich was physically gifted to start with. In Tyler Hamilton's superbly written biography, there is a passage where USPS team marvels at the cycling physicality of Jan Ulrich.
@@hariw834: Ok i understand you better now. Yeah no doubt he was gifted, one of the best most natural riders i’ve seen. I dont think he had the mental stamina to pull for more victories than he did which is a shame.
@@david9243 I agree. He was lacking on the mental side and didn't train hard enough.
@Normal As yes, could be true as he hailed from eastern Germany.
Drugged out of his mind
He liked Black Forest Cake
Ulrich won the 97 tour almost by accident one might say... by pure instinct... acting on his former GDR/DDR conditioning. but he was never a true/complete champion and easily lost the mind games against the near sociopathic Armstrong. Shows best in Ulrichs interviews from back then, arkward and almost painful to watch.
power of doping..
Yes Ullrich was a beneficiary of doping but the reason why Hinault said he could win 10 Tours was his raw talent. This was obvious way back when he was winning the Commonwealth Bank classic in Australia in 1994. It was always obvious to me that Armstrong knew Jan was more talented than him. Just not as disciplined and focused, like getting fat in the off season then needing to lose weight fast before the TdF. Sad than Jan never left the sport with the palmeres his talent deserved.
Did Jan but on muscle bulk over the years? He seemed very lean (in spite of famous diet issues) but when Lance appeared, Jan lost his physical advantages.
Was Ullrich the best drug user until Lance came along with his experimental drugs he learned about through cancer
What's with the distorted face in the thumbnail?
I remember watching the Tour back then and was amazed at the performance.We now know why. Top condition plus top doping methods. But grasshopper the light that burns twice as bright only lasts half as long ...... he never lost his title though.
bring back the juice! wait...did the juice ever leave?
Ullrich career is very similar than Bernal's
How? Ullrich had a long career with a Tour-win and 5 times second. He also won a Vuelta.
Bernal has won a Tour too and he has i Giro instead of a Vuelta. But Ullrichs consistency and many podiums make him clearly superior to Bernal - so far at least. Ullrich never finished worse than 4th in 8 TdF appearances. That is second only to Hinault and Anquetil. And Ullrichs winning-margin in the Tour is the largest in almost 40 years. Bernal hasn't even won a stage in the Tour. Bernal needs more big results to be comparable with Ullrich in an all-time ranking. Looking solely at Grand Tours GC Ullrich will end up around number 15-20 of all time. Bernal will not even be in top 40 at this stage.
But hopefully he will recover well and be back and win a lot of races.
Ullrich would spin the 180mm cranks thats his key. He did not have the youth to turn them so fast later in his career.
60% Riis was a reference to the heamocrit level in his blood
I did forget about the drugs 🙂
Drugs. The end
I love these videos... It takes me back to a time when I was as young as these guys and racing at the local level. If they were all cheating and doctored, were they cheating? If the doping had all been out in the open, I think the sport would not have been enjoyable to watch... just a battle of doctors and chemistry instead of muscle, blood, and courage...
And many many dead youths with exploding hearts, caught up in the arms race.
Came to cycling in the late 2010’s. So no starry-eyed nostalgia to cloud and mute what was a losing game of Russian roulette on wheels.
It’s deadly enough just ridings bike up and down mountains, injecting insane amounts of extreme chemistry and drugs and fringe medical voodoo into a sport with wide eyed kids….yeah no. There’s no heroes here. Just ugly rich men abusing male youth to early graves. Sickening really.
Ulle war sauber !!!!
Guter Witz.
I love this narrator
1997 tdf was the pike of epo era
Peak?
Hardly 1 year, the 90's and 00s until Op Puerto. Lance was using new experimental stuff that left no trail in his body, in competition/races
Yaa, it's totally clean now. Lol
@@kurtobermeyer3356 No But, they do see them disqualified from Cycling in the main Bodies sanctioned events, possibly in other areas not under the main bodies like Triathlons, Duathlons, or other events doing the endurance Mountain Bike races.
This video is a shame!
The voice reminds me of the guy from Stop at Nothing that says "You don't have a patent on cancer!" to Lance at the Tour of California.
For me, best doped cyclist ever
Armstrong was better at that.
In the golden era 95% were doped and the 5% who refused were dropped after one year of pro peleton
Ahah a bunch of dopers!virenque,pantani,Ulrich EPOOOOOOOOOOO🤡🤡🤡😂🤣😂
The era - all doped. Ulrich - should have won more.
Ulle ist sauber
Guter Witz.
yeah but hes just a student .to lance armstrong in the pyrenees hahaha
Amazing
Then he ran into a even bigger drug cheat than himself.
More doped than Riis
Alguém tradutor por aí pra fazer um vídeo em português ???
You forget that Riis also rode for Ullrich. I remember that Riis on the flat road between mountains totally burned himself out, in order to chase down a break away group, to help Jan
I told it in my last vid of riis
I am curious, how do you know he was subject to 'state sponsored doping?'
thats how it has always worked; during the cold war how US and USSR tried to win the war by beating each other in sports. Hence, 1st and 2nd of most number of doping cases in the world are Russian followed by US of A. China have been doing it forever especially during beijing 2008 olympics, they wanted to show the world that they are global power house, they have the highest budget spent for olympics to this day, so they needed results to back it up. Even London 2012, which i watched so proudly and with such admiration only to find out later how corrupt the system is and deeply it is embeded. Its not a secret. They even dope underage kids. read about columbian goverment's interference with WADA (anti doping) in 2017 and miraculously with in a year produces 22 year old TDF winner funded by british team SKY.
If only his training discipline had matched his talent. Armstrong not only beat him because his doping system was superior, but also because he would be riding the upcoming Tour's climbs in February time after time while JU was still 10 kg overweight.
The Jordi Wild of cycling
What is Jan Ullrich´s greatest achievement?
A) Winning the Tour de France 1997.
B) Punching Til Schweiger´s face in.
It´s a close call! So tell me what you think!
B and its not even close
A was a feast for german cyclists, B was a win for whole Germany
He was 23 in 97
Definitely not the strongest cyclist in history....not sure who you are, perhaps a vid of yourself?? Talking
In watts, 1997 Ordino is the most powerful ascension ever in TdF history.
@@cyclingstories Col de la Madeleine, 1998?
He was a rider like Merckx
Unico
He was the best ever.
The audio quality on the voicover in these videos is quite poor by todays standards, you guys should really invest in a good microphone. Really love the content, especially the 90s era episodes, which is when I fell in love with the sport. Shame it was so dirty in hindsight, but a way more interesting era.
Yeah... the thing is that we are not earning money with this. Maybe if we get some money could upload our audio quality. Thanks.
@@cyclingstories Good luck earning money with this cycling content. The drug theme is lame.
@@tencog49 go do something with your life
447 Watts, Wiggins Olympic TT was 459 watts.
wiggins didnt ride for 3-4 hours before that effort though. wiggins TT was closer to 275 for 55 ish mins but his hour record was 460 watts for 1 hour.
Ulrich strongest cyclist in history, lol. And I’m thinking of that comment as If it’s 1996-97. Super talented, yes but not the strongest ever!
In 1997 he registered the most powerful watts in Tdf history
Didn’t this guy dope too?
It's true that at that time all of them were doping, but it's not fair to say he wasn't doing it, Ullrich himself admitted he was doing blood doping with Eufemiano Fuentes in 1997. You could have just skipped that part...