Cycling Tour de France 1998 Part 2
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Quick Facts about the 1998 Tour de France:
3875 kilometers ridden at an avarage speed of 39.983 km/hr
189 riders started, 96 finished.
The 1998 Tour was marred by the Festina doping scandal that turned into the greatest crisis in the Tour's history. 1997 winner Jan Ullrich arrived in poor form, allowing 1998 Giro winner Marco Pantani to take huge amounts of time in the mountains, in particular, stage 15 to Les Deux Alpes.
Marco Pantani is the last man to do the Giro-Tour double.
Loved watching this again👍🏼
Funny though when Phil Liggett ends his link and says “I hope we can cut this cancer (doping) out of the Sport.…Now onto todays Time Trial where the fastest time has just been set by Tyler Hamilton” 😂😂
According to Hamilton he was actually "bread and water" in that time trial. He is good fella chatted to him about cycling training on IG.
Thank you very much for taking the time to put all the videos together so now we can enjoy watching and remember the Tour on it´s details...!
Thanks once again...!
13:18 1:00:40 Awesome EPO greatness by Pantani. I miss this era of cycling. It was so exciting.
I agree.... have been reading about (in the era before screening) and watching Le Tour since the 60's, and I loved the period up to around the end of the 90's, exactly because it WAS exciting, less antiseptic (you'd know all about that!)... when the STARS rode aggressively and heroically. "greatness" is exactly right. and I don't care about EPOs or anything of that sort other than as they might have deleterious effects on the athletes' health. this level of cycling, in my view, is so much more impressive than almost all other sports, yet it's never been as popular as football or athletics or or or.... odd to me.
yet again, many thanx for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember that stage 17 was supposed to be a normal highlight show on channel 4 but they were forced to show the end of the stage live
Thanks for the upload.
Ole ole ole ole marco marco q capo grande panta
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you for sharing !
Thanks for sharing, what a mess that tour was!
Extraordinary Physical Overdrive
Funny that the riders should go on strike for being suspected of doping, when every single one of them were in fact doping. There were two things you needed to compete at the elite level, a good training program, and a good doping program. The doping program consisted of two things, being doped, and evading doping controls. Both were very easy, every man in the '98 Tour was tested for doping, none tested positive, which is astounding because every single man in the '98 tour was indeed doping. I could live with the doping, because it had been common practice for decades, what I couldn't live with was the righteous indignation these riders expressed when they were suspected or accused. Of course, none of these guys were as bad as Lance Armstrong. None of these guys would have threatened, sued, or destroyed the careers of people who told the truth about them. As bad as the 1998 tour was for doping, the problems only increased afterward, Lance being the biggest example. I was racing in those days, I knew many of the people who were in the '98 Tour, what a rat race it was.
yes, what you say is true, but maybe that was the point, that since everyone doped, and the authorities knew that (as you say, common practice for decades. Tom Simpson comes to mind, as does footage I watched decades ago of a rider collapsing off his bike, exhausted. a doctor leaped out of a car, injected him, he jumped back on his bike and off he went. I think that was probably in the 60's). anyway.... maybe the riders thought that since everyone knew and condoned the practice, the organizers were the ones acting righteous. it was, after all, the police who started the ball rolling by nabbing the Festina masseur. also, what if they didn't respond at all? just a couple of thoughts!
@@jiji1946 The nature of the doping changed. Alcohol, tobacco, amphetamines, cocaine, etc were all used over the years. But these were generally "jump starts" which had limited effect on performance, and usually limited effect on health. In later years these were seldom used because they were illegal, and even the most rudimentary tests could detect them. EPO, hormones, steroids, and blood doping was another game altogether, they were commercially available, legally sold at pharmacies, and very hard to detect. It was during the this era that speeds greatly increased, and records were broken effortlessly. Race officials were not going to do anything because faster speeds and breaking records draws more crowds and more sponsorship. I had to laugh at the USPS suing Lance Armstrong for "damages" when their sponsorship of his team netted them several millions over the amount they gave him.
Pantani at the top climbers in the cycling history
Nearly 4000km ridden at 40km/hr. That is beast mode.
A controversial, but still amazing Tour de France.
1:33:56 This isn't La Chaux-de-Fonds, it's actually Neuchâtel (a city not far from La Chaux-de-Fonds).
Trying to follow Pantano was suicide
34:00 No Phil, this is Mont Ventoux and not the Alps LOL
Mont Ventoux, although geologically part of the Alps, is often considered to be separate from them, due to the lack of mountains of a similar height nearby.
Pantani, Ulrich and etc, they are all dopers, but it was really interesting
Anyone know what the music is towards the end? The bluesy guitar is really cool.
Darude - Sandstorm
Legend Marco Pantani.
only 96 riders finished this race, what a mess
Ok EPO and other drugs were used even threatening lives by this behavior but everyone used these drugs so that equalized the playing field,that doesnt say these Guys didnt work very very hard still Like these impressive pictures
Jan was so unlucky in this Tour. A flat tire twice at the start of the final climb.
He was gonna get smoked by Pantani either way.
44.00
Col de a Galibier
Durand always on the attack
Marco..
The EPO-Pirate really is only second to the EPO-American ... even he couldnt dope as much as Lance, that guy was one of a kind ...
Effing numpty...
They all doped..the max amount that their body could make use of.....
Wasn' 't the. Tour de " dopage"
Yet another moron...
For decades, long before Armstrong, and then after him....and in other multi-day races...DOPING
Qui dit pentes dit Pantani , Pantani , Pantani ...
Liars!
What a shame Ullrich did lost this. Bad Teamwork, bad equipment and a fckn doper has stolen his 2nd win...
Samsun55 ulrich was doped as well. He's since admitted it. In fact something like 92% of the first 50 riders were doped. It was the beginning of the bad days for cycling. Ulrich was as filthy as the rest of them.
Samsun55 and your mom is a bitch
crapitoutjim 100%
Ulrich has himself to blame; his team was fine. Guided him back to the front when he had an untimely punture and during his implosion in the alps.
Samsun how could you possibly not have known that Ulrich doped??? That's a KNOWN thing and it has been known for many many years...
Why always that awfull music :-/