Cycling Tour de France 2001 Part 1
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The 2001 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 7 July to 29 July 2001, and the 88th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner-although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999-2005. The verdict was subsequently confirmed by the Union Cycliste Internationale.
The race included a 67-km long team time trial, two individual time trials and five consecutive mountain-top finishing stages, the second of which was the Chamrousse special category climb time trial. Thus, all the high-mountain stages were grouped consecutively, following the climbing time trial, with one rest day in between. France was ridden 'clockwise', so the Alps were visited before the Pyrenees. The Tour started in France but also visited Belgium in its first week. The ceremonial final stage finished at the Champs-Élysées in Paris, as is tradition. Erik Zabel won his record sixth consecutive points classification victory.
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I loved these two. Phil’s passing hit really hard. I miss him and his great stories. 😔
@xpavar
Жыл бұрын
Phil Liggett is alive and well. Paul Sherwen died 5 years ago.
Being a massive Armstrong fan (at the time) and finding myself in Paris on the final day of this tour, I was fortunate enough to get myself to the Champs-Elysees on the final day. What a treat to see this in person. I was amazed at the speed of these guys even before they went all out on the final laps. And to think they are able to ride like that after 3 weeks of racing 2000+ miles through France and through the Alps and the Pyrenees is just astonishing.
I remember that Tour de Suisse stage finish in Winterthur when Laurent Jalabert put his hand on my bike's saddle to stabilize himself when slowly riding back through the bunch of fans. I told myself I'm never ever gunna give that bike away anymore. :)
I still love Phil, Paul, Bob, and all the old (and new!) doped up riders. The tours are beautiful races.
Going to miss Paul Sherwen. What a loss. I was hoping that he would take over the helm once liggett got too old but that is not the case. Liggett is now starting to show his age. Forgetting names and not as quick and snappy as he use to be
„The early Days” (for me,the best days of Tour de France) ★1997 - 2006★ #LeTourToDope ❗❗❗ This days of the Tour de France are absolutely amazing and very nervous wrecking to look these riders!!!! Great emotions & memorys
Oh shit its the David Millar edition again
I love the Ligget Sherwen team and that bit about the radios and new technology was great. Miss the sightseeing tips they used to dish out about the French landscape - very interesting - and you just don't get that cultured sense of fun in the current ITV4 coverage. Might as well watch RPGTV and watch the dog tracks! Sorry, but the golden age of the Tour has gone. It's become a boring dodgy money making machine.
Jens Voigt legend
how not to see the best cyclist of the current years run how was it launched armstrong 👍👍👍
Wasn't this the year, that Jalabert won the jersey to be king of the mountains?
Dekker was doping btw
@galenkehler
4 ай бұрын
Thanks goodness he was the only one 😂
28:30 that doctor is an idiot if he thinks it's "miraculous" when a guy stops taking tumor-promoting drugs and all of a sudden his tumors stop growing 😂😂😂
1:36 wow, is he serious? :D
@user-zx1ir7jt4c
5 жыл бұрын
What do you mean?
@Markus17388
5 жыл бұрын
@@user-zx1ir7jt4cMiguel Indurain won 5 tours in a row with a minimum gap of 3m 36s to 2nd place. Now, since the merckx era (