Cycling Lance Armstrong Documentary

For those interested, just found this on youtube the other day. 100 mins long. Very good. Lot of things I had not seen before about that era. Definitely is intended to make Lance look bad, but still interesting. Some good content with Greg LeMond and others. He and some others tape recorded some phone calls and those are played.

Lot of content on friendships, sort of the evolution of how Lance began doping, what was being done at US Postal, conversations (intimidation) to get people to stay quiet, and the gradual exposure of everything.

It does not do a good job at portraying how prevalent doping was or how the UCI (cycling governing body) was aware but was turning a blind eye to things within cycling overall. And it has some screen time for twats at USADA, who have proven to be morons.

Quite a bit of time for Frankie Andreu and his wife. Frankie and Lance were roommates early in their careers, while on Motorola, and after Lance's comeback from cancer, and getting on US Postal, Andreu was there but eventually was let go from the team. Andreu and his wife paid a toll during that saga. She's not a fan of Lance.

When Lance came back to cycling after his first retirement a journalist (former pro rider) referred to him as a cancer, which was incredibly inappropriate - I remember this vividly and it was behavior like that which caused me to see the media in a poor light and feel like it was a witch hunt, while ignoring all of the other people that were doping. This exchange is in the video.

A tragedy in that saga was that the good things Lance did were all forgotten. He helped raise about $1B for cancer issues. People tried to call him a fraud but his recovery was not a fraud. Recovery and doping are two completely different eras in his life.

Anyway, it's a good watch if you have the time. Took me about 3 days to get it completed.