People forget what a great swimmer Armstrong was as a youth before he ever got involved in triathlon around age 15. That feel for the water and basic technique doesn't go away, which is why he was able to resume training and come out of the water here within seconds of the lead.

@litedawg

Жыл бұрын

He was beating other Pro Triathletes at 16

@rylanrussell9595

Жыл бұрын

Amazing what dope can do.

@squacamole3599

Жыл бұрын

​@@rylanrussell9595 Good one😴

@rylanrussell9595

Жыл бұрын

@@squacamole3599 Wasn't a joke you fucking idiot. No sarcasm, just a straight forward response. I'm utterly unimpressed by any of Lance's achievements.

@guitarrerist698

9 ай бұрын

​@@rylanrussell9595he was already a freak athlete before pro cycling and EPO. Educate yourself you idiot

2:08 "hold up gotta turn my swag on" lol

He wasn’t doping as a 16yr old pushing Mark Alan and the other Pro triathletes to the limit The guy was an amazing athlete from the start .

@mintheman7

3 жыл бұрын

But he did dope, lied about it and destroyed the lives of anyone that called him out

@neiloliver7435

3 жыл бұрын

@@mintheman7 certainly wouldn’t argue he was a decent honest person and could say at that time he was the best thief in a den of thieves but wow was it exiting to watch .

@KurtVogel88

3 жыл бұрын

Not in comparison to international class athletes

@christiandm1041

Жыл бұрын

Truth is ALL the elite competitors during his career were. Don't do it, be very average or not even be able to be competitive at all. People are fooling themselves if they think otherwise. At the end of the day it's the entertainment field and boy did he entertain! Now his vicious attacks on those that questioned him is another conversation. Beyond ugly.

wow this video is so dope

@owenkaufman6793

7 жыл бұрын

Patrick Morley no pun intended

@stengoa5496

6 жыл бұрын

nailed it like Jesus

@potatochips3968

5 жыл бұрын

LOL😂

@greigsanderson9673

5 жыл бұрын

It's so steroid you mean.

@domestique3954

5 жыл бұрын

it’s all about winning!🚴🏽💦

this is a man who does everything!! A true champion, no matter what some people say he will always be a legend

@lnz971

Жыл бұрын

lol

@bmhardy

Жыл бұрын

This comment aged well

@joeenglert

Жыл бұрын

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;w;hat peole say??? facts are doper serial liar...bully...lol

Lance Armstrong is a champion in my book, no matter what.

@lnz971

Жыл бұрын

LOOOL

Hahahaha this guy just cant stand not winning for a few years. He must enter competetions constantly. The beast.

@TraumaER

4 жыл бұрын

@m you're fat.

@litedawg

Жыл бұрын

He’s an Alpha , you’re a Beta . That’s the difference.

Cool video,, it captures the Lance we all loved and admired... What a shame !!!

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever" Lance Armstrong has had more challenges and faced more difficulties, than most people. And with his pending and imminent court case ruling it doesn't look like these adversities will cease soon. Lance Armstrong is a fighter, a survivor a champion, a inspiration while at the same time he is still a very human hero. Isextraordinary Information with Inspiration

@lnz971

Жыл бұрын

He's also the biggest cheater of sport history!

@davidgorman6540

Жыл бұрын

He is also someone who tried to ruin people's personal and professional lives if they chose to tell the truth about him. He may be a great athlete but he is NO hero.

I was there that day watching my brother compete. I'm glad to say I witnessed one of his last competitions before this whole mess happened.

It is easy to forget how talented and driven this guy is, even at 16 Lance was beating 25 and 30 year old pro triathletes. He was unlucky to be in an era of cycling where everyone doped, it overshadowed how good he really was because people think that he won only because he cheated. If everyone including lance were clean he still would have won and people that know pro cycling well all admit that Lance is still an all time great if not the greatest of all time.

@Big_Island_Boi

Жыл бұрын

Uh... no. I know pro-cycling plenty well and I do not consider Armstrong either great in any way--aside from perhaps the greatest cock-sucking douchebag cheating pro cyclist in the history of the sport. He is a quintessential narcissist, a liar, a bully, a fraud, a thief. He's a legend alright... but the legend is about how NOT to act as a professional athlete... or as a human being. He didn't cheat to win just once... he did it over and over and over again--robbing the Tour de France of SEVEN years of winners. That scar will be on the sport forever.

@howdyl6456

Жыл бұрын

I mostly agree, but I doubt he would still win without doping. The reason is his natural red blood cells level was low which made him a hyper responder to blood doping. Blood doping gave him a bigger advantage than the others

i remember racing lance when we were kids. i always wanted him to do an ironMan race against me. we were 15 or so. 1987. Good times.

@kensmok6045

4 жыл бұрын

Things that never happened.

@carternorsym9362

2 жыл бұрын

Lies.

Lance will always be an inspiration to me... He's a fighter... He's a champion... No governing body will be able to take that away from him in my mind...

@lnz971

Жыл бұрын

He's also the biggest cheater of sport history!

@weimpromptu

Жыл бұрын

@@lnz971 that we know of.

@David-dw4iu

Жыл бұрын

@@weimpromptu You'd have to go some to be worse than this POS. He ruined people's lives

Absolutely amazing. keep on doing what you do.

1:03 They all knew they were fucked.

Digan lo que digan Lance sigue siendo ejemplo y una maquina en el deporte. Salu2 dsd mixco Guatemala centro América.

that was DOPE!

Thank you Lance!

True about the Tour de France, but this isn't the TdF...it's the Ironman! He won this fair and square.

Wow! Did you see how fast this guy is on a bicycle ! He was swimming and running as well. Unbelievable!!!

Waow that was EP(O)IC!!!

Livestrong is a positive message. It's personal. It's the day to day. This is the true gift of Lance Armstrong. He is not responsible for how you play the game or the expectations required of the endorsers or the bar that the sport itself raises on each individual athlete. The blame should be shared by all.

@--RSL--

Жыл бұрын

Great liberal response... 🤨

Lance is a rockstar

Lance is beast!! He is probably the greatest athlete of all time. The haters calling him a fraud have no idea just how ridiculously strong you have to be to win one Tour de France, never mind seven!! I raced bikes for 10 years and I've never come remotely close to hurting as much as I did to hang on to some blistering breakaways since I quit racing. So here you have it, he can handily beat everyone 'clean' in a world class triathlon as well as doped (as they all were back then) in arguably the most gruelling professional sport in the world.

1:26 - that is an epic shot!

Lance: Well I'm band from cycling forever so I may aswell do this thing,it sounds dope

@pheonix3862

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds "dope"

@andrew66769

4 жыл бұрын

"Band"

@spaceman9599

4 жыл бұрын

Banned from some cycling, else a Triathlon would be HARD for him.

@esakhwaja8592

3 жыл бұрын

@@spaceman9599 he did triathlon before cycling. swimming was originally his strength.

@spaceman9599

3 жыл бұрын

@@esakhwaja8592 Oh! I didn't know this. I guess so used to seeing him as a cyclist that I did not think he'd done anything else before.

Lance Armstrong an athlete the world will look back on as we look back now on the Spartans.

@christopherhanna5754

5 жыл бұрын

the Spartans were fierce warriors who served the state and thier form of democracy while brutalizing those who they enslaved they were fierce, they were unrelenting in battle, and they served with utmost loyalty to death to each other and thier code. Lance Armstrong's a guy who rode a bike fast and took drugs to win races for game and money and bullied the people who would have outed him for it...... There's really no damn comparison at all......

Just forgetting all the drugs stuff for a minute.... he's an amazing athlete. To be fair his skills on the bike are so good that as long as he can swim a bit and put one foot in front of the other he's in with a good chance of winning a triathlon like this. Respect.

@azac122

4 жыл бұрын

No dude he is rhe biggest cheater the world has known so if he wants to do sports just practise alone. He should not be in compet again and never

@ingmarneple6072

4 жыл бұрын

Flyff alive looks like somebody is salty 😂

@OfficialTomsSkujinsFanClub

4 жыл бұрын

No

@keithyj11

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you 💯 ! back in the day when I used to compete in triathlons I was the worst swimmer finished sooo slow was just horrible. I was such a strong biker that for 1hr I would do nothing but pass riders. On the run I could just keep with the pack at best. Would always finish top 10 in my age. Biking portion is huuuuge you are right 👍

@DublinDapper

4 жыл бұрын

Eh NO

I could watch Armstrongs form on the bike all day. Wild cadance yet maximum efficiency, just poetry in motion. Really was too bad we saw him complete a full IM in Nice or somewhere else. I wanted to see his bike time and compare it to how tired he would look and show on the run afterwards, if nothing else then for science.

@alvmusic4402

4 жыл бұрын

Lance is a monster

@adamburling9551

2 жыл бұрын

@@alvmusic4402 no he isn't

@adamburling9551

2 жыл бұрын

@@alvmusic4402 and I'm thankful that the public opinion of people is not the final judgement.. you are all merciless and that's why forgiveness that matters is not up to you or determined by you. You can't handle such things. You don't have the temperance or intelligence.

There's two kinds of professional athletes: the ones that get caught cheating and the ones that don't get caught cheating.

@MrWwoww123

9 жыл бұрын

there are three: those who confess to doping . Lol

@MicroageHD

9 жыл бұрын

Diego Solis You really forgot the ones who don't dope^^ There are always a handfull who are just talented not doped.

@zachcolangelo1711

9 жыл бұрын

Diego Solis you obviously dont know the world of cycling. There are two kinds of athletes yes, the ones that dope and the ones that dont want to poison their bodies with disgusting drugs. When the second kind of athlete succeeds over the first kind, its beautiful.

@fullsleevetats

8 жыл бұрын

+Diego Solis Some of them don't get caught cheating... because they're not cheating at all!

@innismor11

8 жыл бұрын

+Diego Solis Oh, and the third kind ... the kind that when get caught cheating bribe the officials and threaten others so that the "caught" is not divulged. Don't forget the third kind.LA ran out of "cheating on his getting caught cheating", when that USADA guy got a hold of his case.

Fantástico, este é Lance Armstrong. Uma lenda, o melhor.

This man was a hero of mine. He has let me down badly. That said, I believe he did WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN. WIN. WIN. This is the mindset of a champion, like it or not.

@thomaskeane6076

3 жыл бұрын

Real winners don’t use drugs to cheat though. Real winners use their talent and years of hard work to win.

@ronm7114

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomaskeane6076 apparently all champions dope though. Big corp wants money. Great achievements bring money. The hunt on dope is i believe strict but not that strict for that purpose: to bring in tons of money. Imagine no Rapha and Djoker... yeah go figure.

And he has raised over a half a billion dollars for charity and given hope to people with cancer. Still a hero!!

Dope or not, lance is still an amazing athlete. He must be respected for his effort and victories on and off the bike.

@lnz971

Жыл бұрын

lol

So inspirational 👏

no matter what happened to Lance, steroids do not make a champion, the champion trains everyday to be the best! lance be my hero forever! encouragement! admit and acknowledge that mistakes were made is human

1:25 Rainbow that is a beautiful view Guys wheelset looks pimp the front spokes look like there even moving and those black and white colors looks steez

It's like he'd still win the tour de france when we see his pedaling frequency

So , AWESOME!!! WAY TO GO!!!=)=) GOOD JOB!!!!

Dope 👍🏼🚀

If he was the only dope maybe we can condemn him God bless you Lance

@Arturo-sm1tb

5 жыл бұрын

No blessings....he's still a sociopath who hurt a lot of real human beings. Could not care less about the Tour De France. But there are lots of victims of his con.

@abelramos8652

5 жыл бұрын

Arturo amigo, tooooodos se dopan

@pianomaestro2112

5 жыл бұрын

Arturo entiende si todos se dopan entonces esta bien !

@mrtoad1408

4 жыл бұрын

Other people doing bad things doesn't justify you doing it. If you get arrested for stealing can you say "oh well other people are thieves as well". He directly and maliciously ruined people's careers and lives over his megalomania and greed and you give him blessings. Do you think your god would like that?

@abelramos8652

4 жыл бұрын

Mr Toad on that era doping was the rule not the exception. UCI allow it for the show until it stinks. Its not it was Lance a few more. It was 100% of the top riders. No justification just a fact, everybody we’re cheating, the whole game was a fraud!

Forgive and forget, he just was doing what all his friends in cycling were doing. he is still a great athlete, and also triathlon was his second sport so he is just going back into his roots.

@shanep.9442

4 жыл бұрын

Forgive & forget? No. What a WEAK comment.

@TooManyHorrorMovies

8 ай бұрын

It's not about cheating...he intentionally sued and ruined the lives of people who told the truth about him.

When he gets on the bike, game over man GAME OVER!

Beautiful sport!

I watched him winning his last 3 titles ... i never had the passion to watch The Tour De France , until i saw this man competing , since then i never missed a stage .. He was and will remain the greatest cyclist of all time . LiveStrong people!!

I used to be a die hard fan of Lance. Not anymore. I don't talk down on him as I don't have the right to do so. When he was doping, all the other top riders were on drugs so it was a level playing field in that respect. But the biggest difference is that Lance really did wage a brutal war on anyone who questioned his honesty. Many of those people were no saints either and were just looking for their 15 minutes of fame by trying to pull Lance down, I'll give you that. But still it was a very nasty business from him indeed, he pretty much tried everything to ruin those people's lives. I still regard him as an exceptionally talented and amazing athlete, nobody in their right minds would question that. I just lost my respect for him as a decent human being.

@TheSteinbitt

9 жыл бұрын

Richard Serban Good summary. I would add that when a lie has gotten as big as it did (almost considered a god amongst men, fighting cancer, livestrong etc) it becomes almost impossible to tell the whole truth, and you would do almost anything in order to maintain the lie. Cant say most men wouldn't have done the same, although it takes a "sociopathic" personality to get to that stage in the first place.

@jackhammer111

6 жыл бұрын

He fought back against people who are actively trying to destroy him like Walsh and like the absolutely despicable Greg lemond.

@andrewc0128

6 жыл бұрын

Carbon, I get what you are saying, but as TheSteninbitt wrote, he was a sociopath who tried to stop his lie from getting out, so he actively tried to bully those who were trying to tell the truth. I cant say who started their side first, Lance being a bully and trying to destroy lives or those who were telling their story, but the thing of it is, he was in the wrong, so he should have just admitted it and used "EVERYONE was doping" as an argument. I already knew that everyone was, so I would have supported him, and other people like me, if he would have simply said "Yeah, you got me. I doped like a MFer, and this is how I did it."

@jr-vn9vq

6 жыл бұрын

Carbon Crank Just how is Greg Lemond despicable??

@xGatorchomp28x

5 жыл бұрын

48 laws of power, crush your opponent entirely, defend reputation at all costs

He hadn’t run or swam for over 10 years properly rocks up and annihilates triathletes who have been doing all three disciplines for years whatever you think of him you’ve got to say he was a phenomenal athlete

I don't care what anyone says. Lance Armstrong is an absolute animal.

Lance fuckin rules

This man is a stud!

God Bless you Lance !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!!

Watch the interview. When she asks him if he cheated, listen to his answer.

Dope.

@loonateer

Жыл бұрын

🤣

awesome Lance GOAT

Doesn't anyone have something nice to say? Good job athletes!

Title: "Lance Armstrong wins Ironman 70.3 Hawaii." Me: "Check for roids content."

@BobbyL80123

4 жыл бұрын

you mean, a sociopath and bully won?

@BobbyL80123

3 жыл бұрын

@@spaceman9599 I didn't mention anything about steroids or epo.

@spaceman9599

3 жыл бұрын

@@BobbyL80123 Sorry man, addressed to wrong person. Corrected.

@spaceman9599

3 жыл бұрын

EPO isn't steroids Durantest

That's the DOPE! This makes me want to GROW as an athlete.

@netferus1560

2 жыл бұрын

Are you one of them now ?

This is nuts!

Lance is a machine!

Easy to hate from the couch. Regardless of the past lance is still getting it done and is one of the fittest men on earth undoubtedly out dominating a completely different sport. Hats off, past is the past.

He is an extraordinary athlete and an extraordinary human, regardless of his biochemical enhancement. Doping in professional cycling is/was ubiquitous. Armstrong won all those tours because he is Armstrong.

no matter what Lance! you're still the one who inspires me to live a healthy lifestyle. God bless u always

dope you and win... i want to see that

Alright, haven't you all (commenters) beaten this to death already? Ok, Armstrong doped, but let's put some things into perspective: 1) You and I probably weren't professional cyclists in the early 2000s. We have no real bearing or gauge on the scale and pressure of doping in this time other than the testimony and confessions of the riders and teams which experienced it. 1b) There is good ground to assume most cyclists in this era were doping, the best example being 1998, the 'Tour du Dopage'. 2) He doped in cycling. Here we are now in triathlon, and I, despite never supporting Armstrong, am quite disappointed in the way some people are reacting. Unless or until there is some kind of proof that Armstrong is doping still, his tri results are completely valid and respectable. 3) A kind of double standard is being set in the Armstrong hate comments, in that nobody really had or has much argument about Ullrich, Vinokourov, Contador, E. Merckx, and many other famous cyclists who doped in their career.

@jackaledful

10 жыл бұрын

The difference between Armstrong those other guys was he used his position to intimidate and damaged people lives. I liked Armstrong, until I read about how he treated the people trying to tell the truth. You should read how he fucked over Greg LeMond, the only American to legitimately win the Tour de France. The man is a national disgrace, not as much over the doping, as to his unethical behavior and conduct toward others.

@barath4545

4 жыл бұрын

We can add Fausto Coppi to the list. He admitted doping as well, but it was before anyone really cared about it (TV interview 1952)

As a human, might be not be the best example out there. But as an athlete,he was and still is one of the greatest

@abcdefg-cr4dj

5 жыл бұрын

Mohit Hardikar that is one of the dumbest comments on you tube

Personnally, I really don't care that he took dope, like so many runners, on the Tour de France... This video is simply beautiful to watch.

Lance blew by that guy like he wasn't even moving! What a legend Lance is....

As if they almost finish an Ironman before I finish a marathon

@ketoironmanexperiment6683

6 жыл бұрын

Half ironman....

@semrg4284

6 жыл бұрын

Lance Armstrong best tour de france wim

@mohamedms2472

6 жыл бұрын

You need to take lance pills

@ericcartman8694

6 жыл бұрын

Leon Beale this is only a half Ironman

@leonhafner170

6 жыл бұрын

Liz Ard 7:35:...

Armstrong clearly has some great genetic advantages. His oversized heart can beat over 200 times a minute and thus pump an extraordinarily large volume of blood and oxygen to his legs

@BeanyOwns

4 жыл бұрын

Correct me if I'm wrong but surely having a larger heart would mean less beats per minute, as each heart beat is more efficient and can pump more blood around the body? Isn't that why endurance athletes tend to have extremely low resting heart rate?

@nonyobussiness3440

4 жыл бұрын

He has a naturally shitty v02 max and isn’t an elite athlete. He just brought cheating to a new level.

@nonyobussiness3440

4 жыл бұрын

Ben correct

@TraumaER

4 жыл бұрын

@@MT-mk6qz yeah.... no. You obviously never went to medical school.

@TraumaER

4 жыл бұрын

@@nonyobussiness3440 it's ~82 and probably twice as yours fatty.

Wow, Ironman really does everything for making business. I'd rather go for the Challenge series.

You can take never take away the passion and drive to compete!!!!!!

Good to see he is still doping, this guy doesn't care what anyone thinks.

@josephmaina1669

5 жыл бұрын

he shouldn't they doubted jesus also just saying

LoL He must have killed it on the cycling portion! Probably not the fastest @ running or swimming though.

@scottthompson3019

4 жыл бұрын

He was a competitive triathlete before he became a cyclist. That's what got him into cycling. Swimming was originally his best event.

@richardvillares5987

3 жыл бұрын

he smoke those guys on a bike...

Incredible.

Iron man athletes are perfect special operations canadates!

bike: checked trainers: checked trisuit: checked doping: done

Lance you are still my hero.

@anielchall9708

2 жыл бұрын

Steroidssssss

Dope! 👍

Lance: THE LEGEND!

The EPO man

Dope works

What are the songs in this video? Specifically the one starting at 1:33 ?

I still a fan.

90% of all athletes you see on TV take some form of performance enhancement drug , the other 10% are either coach`s or commentators .

@patrickrathert7147

5 жыл бұрын

Louis Cyphre So the other 10% are no athletes??

Have they stripped Lance of this win as yet?

@tri4autism

3 жыл бұрын

They should... helmet not buckled flying down the road... it's at least a time penalty at worst a full on DQ,

I ❤ EPO!

lance crushing everyone!

for me he wil always be livestrong he is a legend

@nuncaesquece1

4 жыл бұрын

A fake legend

Lance accomplished what he did. And that is Amazing. He was there. He knows what it feels like to push the human body. To hurt and go on. A Magnificent Athlete. Still one of my Heros

Armstrong is still a hero no matter what.

You wouldn't even imagine how much he trained to WIN this 70.3 plus tours and other competitions, forget about the drugs, he committed his life to sports.

Great! Respect!

*Power of EPO ! Respect Armstrong* 💪

That's my point exactly. That's why the law is so important here. The law is the standard and the standard was the drug test which all cyclist were required to take. According to the law, every cyclist that didn't pop positive was clean which included Lance Armstrong. Just because he confessed doesn't change the fact that he met the standard. The standard needs to be looked at, not the athletes who work within them. The problem is with the anti doping agency. They need to get their crap together

He has been tested for VO2 max, and he has been if not the highest one of the top 10. He competed in Ironman with pros almost 10 years younger al age 40!!! He has been accused when on his 20s when he started triathlon, and won never popped positive way before USPS and Discovery.

Lance is the biggest legend in cycling history. He was the best of the dopers.

I get it. Athletes who get caught dopping lie for many reasons, especially loosing endorsements. But Lance threw his friends under the bus by exposing them to authorities for doping and denied he ever took anything. If you read is autobiography, he actually says he did! To me this says alot about his character and I have 0 respect for him!

Lance was not the only one doping on the tour...not for us to judge. He is still one of the most phenomenal athletes on this planet doping or not. Livestrong should not have unaffiliated themselves with him...he has raised more money for his foundation and done more good than bad...he is still a rock star in my book! Go Lance! You deserve to win!

Lance you nutter. Go boy!

Smoke weed everyday...