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🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 49 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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0:26.7 | what is going on here it really was so everywhere like if you weren't there you do not understand. |
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0:40.0 | I heart boobs that was supposed to be for breast cancer but nobody actually knew where that money was going? |
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0:48.0 | Had like really thin wrists that like, it would just like emphasize how weak I looked I guess I don't know what a |
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1:03.0 | Well, Sarah, today I'm gonna bring you back |
1:05.5 | to the very reason we had so many of those ugly, cheap, |
1:09.8 | landfill destined jelly bracelets. And somehow somehow it has to do with Cheryl Crow. |
1:18.5 | It's January 2013 and Lance Armstrong is in Austin, Texas. |
1:22.8 | He's got a short crew cut and a chiseled, classically handsome face. |
1:26.6 | He's sitting in a brown leather chair, surrounded by cameras in a nondescript hotel room. |
1:31.5 | The 41-year-old is used to being in the spotlight. He's a superstar cyclist with a |
1:35.4 | record-breaking seven tour to France wins. But he's not holding a trophy today or |
1:40.6 | wearing one of the signature yellow jerseys given to the races |
1:44.1 | winner. Instead, Lance is in a blue blazer and slacks and he's directing an icy |
1:49.4 | stare at the person interviewing him, Oprah Winfrey. |
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