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🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Lance Armstrong’s determination to win helps him survive cancer and become cycling’s biggest star in the early 2000s. But his ruthless desire to be the best leads him to create a secret cheating scheme. It fuels him to a historic Tour de France winning streak—but requires an elaborate cover-up that includes bullying anyone who tries to expose him, even his teammates. After he’s exposed and falls from grace, his pride and stubbornness makes his apology tour feel more like backpedaling to save his reputation.
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0:31.5 | Sarah, as a mid-range millennial, I know that you remember those live-strong bracelets. |
0:38.6 | I remember so many kids on the school bus having a live strong bracelet and it just being like, |
0:45.5 | what is going on here? It really was so everywhere. Like, if you weren't there, you do not understand. Yeah, it's hard to quantify. But you didn't even have one of like the knockoff ones |
0:51.1 | that said, I heart boobs that was supposed to be for breast cancer, |
0:54.5 | but nobody actually knew where that money was going. |
0:57.0 | I know, you know what? |
0:57.9 | I never had any of them. |
0:59.6 | Had like really thin wrists that, like, |
1:02.3 | it would just like emphasize how weak I looked, I guess. |
1:06.1 | I don't know. |
1:06.8 | What a flex. |
1:07.6 | You're so delicate. |
1:08.7 | You can't wear this clunky piece of jewelry. |
1:11.1 | They were just too heavy for me. |
1:12.4 | I'm just one of those girls. |
1:13.4 | Okay, sounds tough. |
1:14.9 | Well, Sarah, today I'm going to bring you back to the very reason we had so many of those ugly, cheap, landfill-dustin jelly bracelets. |
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