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Fans, family members and friends have always asked me, "What was was like to race the Tour de France?" and "What does it take mentally to get through it?"

These questions are always tough to answer because getting through the Tour relies on a number of factors.

You have to be lucky.

First, you have to recognize how lucky you are to be there. You've had so many crossroads in your life that could have put you in several different circumstances, and here you are at the start line of the Tour de France. It feels surreal.

Then, there is the luck that will get you through the everyday perils of the journey. Every rider has several close calls as they make their way through each stage. Race-ending crashes can be narrowly missed--sometimes just by millimeters.

Whether it's avoiding a massive rider pileup or random spectators that aren't paying attention, these near misses happen so often that it becomes normal. Unfortunately, you don't always miss them, and they become game changers, often resulting in a rider abandoning or being seriously limited physically due to their injuries.

Stay in the moment.

The Tour de France is the most high-profile event in cycling, and there is a lot that can distract you. Maintaining your focus before the race, and during each and every stage, is crucial.

When you lose your concentration, it can kick you in the pants. Drop your guard for a split second, and the next thing you know you're surfing down the asphalt on your side. Not fun.

Attitude is everything.

To ride in the Tour requires a fierce determination to survive and a "never say die" attitude. The Tour is not just physically demanding--the mental side of the sport is just as crucial. You need the will to mentally battle through one of the most exhausting things you'll ever face.

The first week of the Tour de France is absolutely crazy, and racing through the flatter stages is much harder than it looks. After completing the first week, riders have already been through it all--big crashes (or just narrowly missing them), wind, rain, insane speeds and many narrow, rough and twisting roads.

Combine these elements with the fact that every sport director is shouting "GET TO THE FRONT!" in the radios, and you end up with a peloton full of exhausted and frazzled riders. Some riders used to joke around that they were excited to hit the big mountains so they could finally rest.

You have to be tough.

The second and third weeks of the Tour are just as brutal. The Pyrenees and Alps are massive monsters, and the majority of the stages have profiles that resemble shark teeth.

These unforgiving routes, in addition to the mid-July heat, push each and every rider to their absolute mental and physical limits. Getting through these stages takes every ounce of focus and will that you have.

The aftermath.

All of a sudden, the race is over and the weeks following the tour are difficult in a different way. The fatigue is so deep you feel like you could sleep for weeks. I always remember being in a fog-like state for the first week or two.

A couple long naps throughout the day were pretty common, as were swollen and sore legs. Some riders would even experience depression. Your life has been going at 100 mph for over three weeks and then it comes to an abrupt halt. It takes time to unwind, slow down and get back to your normal routine.

Tyler Hamilton is an eight-time Tour de France competitor and was once one of the world's top-ranked cyclists. In 2012, Tyler released his memoir, The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs, a New York Times bestseller and recipient of the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Tyler raced professionally from 1995 to 2008 and now runs his own training business, Tyler Hamilton Training LLC , for cyclists of all levels.

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He’s a stage victor in all three Grand Tours, and the winner of the 2003 Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He’s also a former pro rider, past doper and current anti-doping advocate. Tyler Hamilton spoke this month to a crowd of students and academics in Oxford, England. He opened up about his past in the sport, using his example as a cautionary tale about the pressures of sport and the temptation of doping.

One day before that talk he gave a detailed interview to CyclingTips about the crucial lessons learned during what has been a convoluted and painful journey.

A curious thing happened back in 2010. Tyler Hamilton, former US Postal rider and past teammate of Lance Armstrong, had been called to give evidence in front of a federal grand jury. It was investigating allegations of doping within that squad. When the subpoena arrived, he had no choice.

Hamilton spoke, baring his soul to the jury about all he had done and seen in the sport of cycling. Afterwards, he was staggered by how he felt.

“It was almost a bit spiritual, really,” Hamilton says, looking back at that time. “It was just a huge weight coming off my shoulders. The first time I told the whole truth all at once was in that grand jury room in Los Angeles.

“I went in with a 100 kilogramme backpack on. When I came out that thing was really empty. It was just liberating.”

But what was most curious came later. The following year Hamilton decided to speak to the 60 Minutes TV programme about the Armstrong investigation. The Texan was fighting tooth and nail about recent allegations of doping made by another former US Postal teammate, Floyd Landis. Armstrong denied the claims, of course, but suffered a blow to his credibility when Hamilton came forward and opened up.

That second catharsis also helped, as did a third days before the programme went out. Seven years after his positive tests at the Olympics and Vuelta a España, Hamilton finally stood before his parents and told the truth: contrary to what he had said to them for years, he had doped.

It was tough, of course. Telling the truth hurt and so too hearing it. His parents had spent years believing and insisting that their son had raced clean. They now had to face up to what really happened.

The family worked through it and afterwards, Hamilton noticed a difference.

“I had been on anti-depressants for ten years,” he tells CyclingTips. “I have some family history with depression. I still think I have it today. I go through some periods where I am a little bit more quiet and reserved. But telling the truth totally helped things.

“I don’t take medication any more. Even if I still have those quiet periods, times when I am maybe not super social, telling the truth helped so much. Before, I wanted to disappear from the world at times.”

In retrospect, he believes a lot of what he felt was due to the doping and the deceit. It was a rot which gnawed away at him without him realising the damage it was doing.

“Looking back, I do think a lot of the depression was situational,” he tells CyclingTips. “I first got diagnosed with clinical depression around 2002, 2003. But I was also in the middle of this massive lie. And I couldn’t tell my doctor that.

“He just said, ‘yeah, you have depression. You have a family history of it.’ But I think a lot of that is situational. You take out the massive lies, the secrets and all that and things get a lot better.

“Okay, I still have my little moments. But it is all good. You don’t freak out about it. You just lay a little low. I am used to it, once you come to terms with it. And it’s much better than it was before.”

“Cycling is a cut-throat sport, for sure”

There will inevitably be fans of the sport who read this and feel anger. Every rider had the choice to dope or not, they will say, and Hamilton made his decision.

He understands that. At 45 years of age, he doesn’t offer excuses. Armstrong may still be claiming everyone was at it, that he was no different, and that he deserves to keep his seven Tour titles. Hamilton, though, owns his errors.

He doesn’t offer justification. He made mistakes and doesn’t try to sugar-coat things.

He wants to make amends, not excuses. Because of that, he travels around the world and gives talks about his history. He wants others to understand the decisions he made, the consequences they caused, and what he should have done differently.

In terms of drawing on experiences, he’s got plenty to talk about.

In 2004, after years of using banned substances, Hamilton tested positive for a blood transfusion. While there is no test to detect the reinjection of a rider’s own blood, it appears a botched reinfusion where the wrong person’s blood bag was administered may have triggered the positive.

Hamilton denied doping but was given a two-year ban. After his return he raced with the Tinkoff Credit Systems and Rock Racing teams before failing a test for the substance DHEA in April 2009.

At the time he said it was in an over the counter anti-depressant he was taking. Handed an eight-year ban by USADA, he decided not to fight the sanction. He retired and also handed back his 2004 Olympic gold medal.

Aside from the damage to his career and reputation, he also paid a personal price. Hamilton has been through two divorces: things have not been easy.

Looking back, he doesn’t have a rose-tinted view of the sport. It was, and is, brutal.

“Cyclists are put through the wringer. It is the hardest sport in the world,” he says. “So hard. You go from riding in the Tour de France, just killing yourself every day for three weeks. You are on the top of the world, you have all this adrenalin, and then two days later you are sitting at home, quiet. It is hard.

“For the next two, three weeks maybe you are super low key. And then, boom, you are back at another race. It is hard. You are travelling a lot. You are away from your friends and family. It is a brutal lifestyle. So I think a lot of cyclists probably also have situational depressive moments.”

The mental and physical toll is exacerbated by the need to be as lean as possible. In his autobiography The Secret Race, Hamilton talks about needing to put a folded towel under him when sitting down for food. His reason was that with the extensive fat loss he and others experienced, his pelvic bones had less cushioning and became very sore.

When even sitting hurts, things have gone to extremes.

“The dieting…man, the dieting was brutal,” he says, repeating the last word for emphasis.

“It is unfortunate but it makes a difference. Being a few pounds lighter makes a huge difference. And then being a few pounds lighter than that again makes an even bigger difference.

“Cycling is a cut-throat sport, for sure.”

If this sounds like a justification for doing what he did, he doesn’t mean it that way. Asked what he would change about the past, he’s adamant he would do things differently if he had the opportunity. Even if that meant he had a fraction of the success he did.

“I would try to do it clean. For sure,” he says. “I mean, I was clean for a while … I did it for two plus seasons as a professional. I won some smaller races clean in Europe. But I think eventually [as a clean rider] I would have probably thrown the towel in. It would have been hard not to. I would have known what others were at.

“It was impossible to not see any of that back then. Guys have said, ‘I saw nothing. I lived during that dark decade or two decades, I raced then and I didn’t see anything. I never saw it, never heard it.’ But that is not feasible, it is almost impossible.

“It would have been hard [as a clean rider] to know all my teammates are doping. To know that I am not being selected for the Tour because I am not doping, and all that. In that scenario I think eventually I would have probably chosen to go elsewhere, to do something else. And that would have been great too. But I do wish I gave it a try, or continued to be clean, I guess.”

“Okay, I wouldn’t have won a whole lot. But it would have been cool being a domestique. There is a lot less pressure being a domestique. A lot less.”

In retrospect, with the benefit of experience, he now feels the success wasn’t worth it. By way of example, Hamilton speaks about the Olympic gold medal he took in 2004.

“I remember watching the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Seeing the hockey team win. And watching Eric Heiden win five gold medals in speed skating.

“Ever since watching those Olympics, I had a clear goal. ‘I want to win a gold medal, end up on the podium and hear the national anthem.’ I always dreamed of that and imagined what it would feel like. But when I got there and did it, it didn’t feel remotely like it was supposed to.

“I mean, obviously it was a thrill to win. But I felt empty too. I knew eventually they were going to come calling for the medal, but I gave it back before they even asked for it, voluntarily. That felt really good.

“You know, it is just a piece of metal. It is just this thing. I don’t even know what it represented … it became so twisted and dark. It felt much better to give it back.”

Baring his soul

When Hamilton looks back on his life, that confessional talk with his family may well linger in his memories. It was one of the most difficult things he’s ever done. It was also one of the most liberating.

“I have two great parents and they taught me the difference between right and wrong,” he says of his childhood.

“They let my brother and sister and I get away with a lot, but lying was not one of them. So when this all happened, it really affected me. Maybe the other riders don’t feel as much, maybe it is just an act, but it affected me greatly.”

Despite that burden, he intended carrying his secret for the rest of his life. He’d already been sanctioned and had nothing to lose in terms of his reputation, but still felt obliged to say nothing.

“At that point in time I was still believing. I felt like I was a proud fraternity member,” he explains. “I got caught, the others didn’t, what I need to do is just keep my mouth shut. Do it for the sport of cycling. Do it for all my co-workers and competitors.

“Basically, I felt like that until I got subpoenaed … I had been backing up, backing up, backing up and finally I was on the edge of a cliff. It was either jump off and keep the truth secret, or tell the truth.”

Internally, he had justified his silence. He believed saying nothing was the only course of action.

“I didn’t want to implicate anybody else. I knew if I told the truth they were going to be asking the other questions; who, what, where, when. I just thought it was the best thing for everybody, including myself, to not tell.

“Even after I got caught, don’t say a word. Omerta – I was fully in it. But looking back now, it was crazy. I was living in my own personal hell. I was really, really suffering and yet it was the simplest thing: just tell the truth. And once I did that, it was like, wow.

“How I felt afterwards was incredible. I had been looking for the answers, ‘how do I feel better? How do I feel better?’ I just wanted to disappear and that is just awful.

“But it was as simple as that. Just telling the truth. Sure, it wasn’t easy, but life is starting to become easier. Living with lies in your life is awful. The bigger the lie is, the more you have to make up all these smaller lies. You are constantly lying. Small little lies to protect the big lie.

“You get sucked into this second life. It is no way to live. It is no way to live. Even in the best of my times, when from the outside it looked like I was on top of the world, it was not that fun. It was pretty miserable.”

Encouraged by how he felt, Hamilton spoke to the 60 Minutes programme. Prior to its broadcast he knew he had to face up to his biggest confession: owning up to his parents, his brother and his sister.

“I told them a day or two before the interview aired on television. It was … awful. Awful. That was probably the worst part about the whole thing. I mean, I think way back as a kid … why are you trying to be successful in sport? You are trying to make your parents proud. And it keeps going as you get older.

“So to have to go and stand in front of them and tell them … it was very tough.”

It was shock to them but, deep down, he believes they may have had a feeling about his true past.

“There was a lot of stuff out there. They always believed me or said they believed me. They always had my back. But I am sure … they are smart people and I am sure they had their guesses.”

Getting over that moment took time for all the family, but their forgiveness helped him finally end the lies. He was free.

An important warning

In the weeks and months after he revealed all on 60 Minutes, the Armstrong investigation headlines grew and grew. The Texan was handed a lifetime ban by USADA in August 2012. The following January, he went on the Oprah Winfrey show and admitted to many years of doping, including during his seven Tour de France victories.

Fast forward three and a half years and many of Hamilton’s peers are getting on with their lives. They opened up about their own indiscretions, helped USADA nail Armstrong, and then closed up again. Many had short six-month bans and then returned to racing.

Hamilton has taken a different route. While he has conducted group rides and has a coaching practice, he also travels around the world speaking about his experiences. Some of the talks are paid; many others are pro bono.

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Although he finds public speaking difficult, he says he wants to make a difference.

“People appreciate the truth and being honest,” he explains. “I don’t necessarily like doing it. It is hard. It has become a little bit easier, I guess, but it is still not easy. Yet it is always nice to see how people react. They appreciate the honesty and not holding back.

“I have never gone to confession, but sometimes it feels like going to confession. I learned some tough, tough lessons and I feel like I am a better person because of it. People need to hear the truth, the whole truth [about doping in sport – ed.]. And I don’t feel like we have really heard all of that.”

In short, Hamilton feels that he has an obligation to teach others what he learned about himself and the truth. He also wants to ensure they don’t make the same mistakes.

By talking about how doping affected, consumed and ultimately upended his life, he hopes that others don’t go down the same road.

However he has a concern. At various points in the past, usually following scandals, the subject of doping has been a big point of discussion. After Operacion Puerto, the Floyd Landis case, the Michael Rasmussen affair and Armstrong’s suspension the spotlight was on the issue. Riders and others within the sport would give their thoughts, responding to the inevitable questions.

Thanks to the tremors from those investigations, there was both a dialogue and a clear and constant pressure to improve things.

Now, not so much.

“A lot of things we were taught to bury deep down inside and really don’t talk about,” Hamilton says. “But it is important. You know, I wish more guys were doing it. As you know, it is not just going away. It didn’t go away in 2006, in one day. It is still out there.

“Obviously things have changed a lot since the dark days but everybody wants to be, ‘okay, we will wipe our hands clean of that.’ But no, there is still plenty of work to be done.”

While Hamilton doesn’t believe there is the same sort of systematic doping that was in place before, he says there is a big danger in taking the pressure off.

Shadows creep in where light doesn’t shine. Similarly, believing the problem is solved is asking for trouble.

He points out that there are still ways to cheat. “The anti-doping agencies won’t say there are giant loopholes, but there are still pretty big loopholes. Blood doping still exists. EPO still exists. And there are new drugs out there.

“It is getting a little bit quiet. I wish I heard more people talking about this subject, saying ‘I won this race clean.’ We simply can’t forget what happened in the past. If we do, we are going to have the same problem again. The last thing we need to do is say, ‘okay, that is over with now, now we can relax.’

“Now plenty of amateurs are getting caught, masters are doing it. People know what they need to do if they want to dope. At least back then I didn’t know what to do, but there were smart people who did. And the only way you knew how to do that if you were in on the inside.

“Now we have to work harder than ever because there is more information out there. It is easier than ever for kids to get their hands on this stuff. In the past you had to have some sort of connection, but now, with the internet, it is a whole lot different.

“People know the secrets. Or a lot more of the secrets, which is scary…”

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Bicycle Thieves: World-Class Cycling’s Drug Trade

By Ian Austen

• Sept. 11, 2012

After Lance Armstrong decided last month not to contest doping charges and a move to strip away his seven Tour de France titles, he left the cycling world anxiously awaiting the release of a report documenting the illicit ways he boosted his performance.

The United States Anti-Doping Agency has not set a publication date for that exposé. But impatient readers can turn to “The Secret Race” by Tyler Hamilton, an Olympic gold medalist and one-time key teammate of Mr. Armstrong’s who has since confessed to cheating and lying himself.

The journalists David Walsh and Pierre Ballester long ago published some of the allegations against Mr. Armstrong that Mr. Hamilton describes. But owing to extensive reporting by Mr. Hamilton’s co-author, Daniel Coyle, “The Secret Race” is much more than just one disgraced cyclist’s confessions and accusations.

Using the wit and eye for detail Mr. Coyle displayed in his first cycling book, “Lance Armstrong’s War,” from 2005, they have produced the broadest, most accessible look at cycling’s drug problem to date. The authors limit the tedious technical details as best as they can (doping is complex, legally, logistically and scientifically) and generally avoid a sensational tone in telling the often harrowing story.

“The Secret Race” is essentially a follow-up to Mr. Coyle’s earlier book, which remains the most complete portrait of Mr. Armstrong. It depicted him as willing to use and discard others, sometimes brutally, and to follow rules on his own terms. Not surprisingly, the book’s subject and his associates did not reveal their doping routines to Mr. Coyle. While “The Secret Race” contains some biographical elements, it mainly fills in the blanks about that business of systematic doping.

Mr. Hamilton was as famous for his ability to endure pain as for his race results. In 2002 he crashed near the start of the three-week Giro d’Italia and fractured his shoulder. Mr. Hamilton kept on riding, grinding his teeth as a distraction.

He finished second over all but needed 11 teeth recapped. A year later he further enriched his dentist by continuing to ride, and grind his teeth, after breaking his collar bone during the first stage of the Tour de France.

Where doping was concerned, the turning point for Mr. Hamilton came after his team attracted the United States Postal Service as a sponsor. With a bigger budget, the team moved from the cycling backwater of the United States to racing in Europe in 1996. European cycling had by then been transformed by the arrival of cloned human hormones, particularly erythropoietin, or EPO, which stimulates the creation of oxygen-rich red blood cells, boosting performance by about 5 percent, or, according to the book, “roughly the difference between first place in the Tour de France and the middle of the pack.”

After a series of humiliating results, Mr. Hamilton accepted a “red egg,” a capsule of less powerful testosterone, from the team. He viewed it as a “badge of honor,” a sign that the team thought he was worthy of doping. Syringes filled with powerful EPO soon followed.

Mr. Armstrong joined Mr. Hamilton on the Postal Service team after his recovery from cancer. They became neighbors, flew around in private jets to doping rendezvous, injected EPO together and regularly talked shop about doping, according to Mr. Hamilton.

After a test for EPO arrived, Mr. Hamilton said he was introduced to increasingly complicated, costly and sometimes grisly methods of transfusing his own blood by Mr. Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel, their team director. (Mr. Coyle writes in the foreword that Mr. Armstrong, through lawyers, denied everything Mr. Hamilton said about him. Mr. Bruyneel has denied any involvement in doping.)

The book deals with Mr. Hamilton’s obvious credibility problems through occasional excerpts from Mr. Coyle’s interviews of others. Mr. Coyle also adds analysis and background through numerous footnotes. They are so numerous and lengthy at points that it might have been wiser not to write the book in Mr. Hamilton’s first-person voice.

The dark side of Mr. Armstrong’s personality gets another airing here. Mr. Hamilton saw it in his contempt for rivals or people he simply disliked. He recalls how during one training ride Mr. Armstrong chased down a motorist who passed too closely and pulled the man from his car at the traffic light.

“I kept picturing that guy on the ground, crying and pleading, and Lance pounding away,” Mr. Hamilton writes. “I’d seen more than I wanted to see.”

When Mr. Hamilton tested positive in 2004, shortly after winning a gold medal at the Athens Olympics, he initiated a costly legal and public relations challenge to the test, but not, he contends in the book, because he was clean, as he claimed then. Rather, Mr. Hamilton was bitter that the test showed that he had transfused another person’s blood, one of the few techniques not in his repertory. (Mr. Coyle suggests that the Spanish doctor who drained Mr. Hamilton’s blood and then processed it for storage in a freezer known as “Siberia” may have ineptly mixed it up with some from another cycling client.)

Rightly, Mr. Hamilton notes in “The Secret Race” that punishment has focused far too much on cyclists while minimizing the role of team owners, sponsors, race organizers and cycling’s bureaucracy. Yet for someone who repeatedly preaches the value of speaking the truth, Mr. Hamilton lets himself off lightly.

“I think everybody who wants to judge dopers should think about it, just for a second,” he writes. “You spend your life working to get to the brink of success, and then you are given a choice: either join in or quit and go home. What would you do?”

Many cyclists answered by choosing to quit. Others resigned themselves to riding on less prominent teams or in less glamorous roles. Suggesting he had no real option pollutes Mr. Hamilton’s bid to clear the air.

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The secret race: inside the hidden world of the tour de france: doping, cover-ups, and winning at all costs audible audiobook – unabridged.

Over the course of two years, Coyle conducted more than 200 hours of interviews with Hamilton and spoke candidly with numerous teammates, rivals, and friends. The result is an explosive book that takes us, for the first time, deep inside a shadowy, fascinating, and surreal world of unscrupulous doctors, anything-goes team directors, and athletes so relentlessly driven to succeed that they would do anything—and take any risk, physical, mental, or moral—to gain the edge they needed to win.

Tyler Hamilton was once one of the world’s best-liked and top-ranked cyclists—a fierce competitor renowned among his peers for his uncanny endurance and epic tolerance for pain. In the 2003 Tour de France, he finished fourth despite breaking his collarbone in the early stages—and grinding 11 of his teeth down to the nerves along the way. He started his career with the U.S. Postal Service team in the 1990s and quickly rose to become Lance Armstrong’s most trusted lieutenant and a member of his inner circle.

For the first three of Armstrong’s record seven Tour de France victories, Hamilton was by Armstrong’s side, clearing his way. But just weeks after Hamilton reached his own personal pinnacle—winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics—his career came to a sudden, ignominious end: He was found guilty of doping and exiled from the sport.

From the exhilaration of his early, naïve days in the peloton, Hamilton chronicles his ascent to the uppermost reaches of this unforgiving sport. In the mid-1990s, the advent of a powerful new blood-boosting drug called EPO reshaped the world of cycling, and a relentless, win-at-any-cost ethos took root. Its psychological toll would drive many of the sport’s top performers to substance abuse, depression, even suicide. For the first time ever, Hamilton recounts his own battle with clinical depression, speaks frankly about the agonizing choices that go along with the decision to compete at a world-class level, and tells the story of his complicated relationship with Lance Armstrong.

A journey into the heart of a never-before-seen world, The Secret Race is a riveting, courageous act of witness from a man who is as determined to reveal the hard truth about his sport as he once was to win the Tour de France.

• Listening Length 11 hours and 23 minutes
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• Audible release date September 5, 2012
• Language English
• Publisher Random House Audio
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Tour de France: Unchained – Second series offers more emotions but also more crashes

The eight new episodes look back at the Vingegaard-Pogačar duel of the 2023 Tour

The second series of ‘Tour de France: Unchained’ will be released on June 11, and the Netflix documentary offers another intense, emotional and dramatic insider view of the biggest race in professional cycling.

Last year, we compared the slick editing and constant showing of crashes and suffering to eating too much Haribo on a hot day . The second series offers more of the same, with the eight 45-minute episodes packed with best moments of racing, the crashes, the heartache and joy that the Tour always produces.

Tadej Pogačar and his UAE Team Emirates teams struck a deal to be filmed alongside the eight official teams, and so this year’s series tells a more complete story of his battle with Vingegaard and how Pogačar lost out in the time trial and then cracked on stage 17 over the  Col de la Loze.

Mark Cavendish also features across several episodes that highlight the dangers of sprinting, including the moment when he crashed out on stage 8 after going close to victory on stage 7 in Bordeaux.

The tragic death of Gino Mäder at the Tour de Suisse is weaved into the narrative Tour de France Unchained, with a tearful interview with Pello Bilbao highlighting the fears and emotions in the peloton after the loss of the Swiss rider.

One of the most moving moments of series 2 captures the moment Ben O'Connor is told of Mäder’s death during a training ride. Julian Alaphilippe also reflects on the dangers of pro racing. "We are nothing on earth and even less on a bike. Just to evoke Gino gives me chills everywhere," he said.

Yet 'Tour de France: Unchained' also dramatizes numerous crashes in a jarring contradiction that could perhaps have been avoided. At the very least, the crashes could have been treated with more respect.

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The crashes and serious injuries of the 2024 season have confirmed that the riders’ pain and suffering should never be used to ‘sell’ the sport, even to a broader audience on Netflix.

Despite that, the documentary is addictive and entertaining to watch, whatever your level of understanding of the sport, showing moments that are rarely seen on television or video. 

The Netflix camera crews again had all-area access to the eight teams and captured rarely-seen moments on team buses and even intimate moments between directeur sportif and riders on the massage table.

Each of the eight episodes combines different storylines covering the AG2R Citroën, Alpecin-Deceuninck, EF Education-EasyPost, Groupama-FDJ, Ineos Grenadiers, Bora-Hansgrohe, Jumbo-Visma and Soudal-QuickStep teams.

Their race tactics are studied in detail, with race commentary and scripted comments and considerations from French commentator Steve Chainel and Ireland’s Orla Chennaoui of Eurosport. Interviews at home, often done by their partners, reveal a more human face of the leading riders.

"Some of the eight episodes look like a dive into a pack of mixed feelings. Almost like being on a psychiatrist's couch, it's about grief, fear, anger, betrayal and pride," Christophe Bérard suggested in the French newspaper Le Parisien in one of the early reviews.

Team managers Jonathan Vaughters, Patrick Lefevere, Marc Madiot and Richard Plugge also feature, as they fight with each other and try to guide their riders to victory. Madiot’s disdain for Plugge after he accuses his riders and staff of drinking beer is ‘peak Madiot,’ packed with venom and pride.

Jumbo-Visma directeur sportif Grischa Niermann and his many exclamations of ‘Fuck!” in the team car again star, as does Pogačar’s foul-mouthed acceptance that he was done and his Tour de France challenge over. Not surprisingly Tour de France Unchained is rated 13+. 

The official trailer included a question to Thibaut Pinot about Vingegaard’s crushing time trial performance but did not reveal his answer.

It turns out the Frenchman preferred to enjoy his final Tour.

“Phew… I don’t want to answer that question. I’m not interested in that,” Pinot said. 

Madiot was not so diplomatic.

“There’s always a moment when the truth comes out, so we’ll see,” he said.

Vingegaard has always insisted he races clean and spoke directly to the Netflix camera about the 2023 allegations. 

“There’s no reason to be speculating. The past (history of cycling) is the only reason to speculate,” Vingegaard said.

“I know I don’t take anything. I’m not doing anything that I'm not allowed to do. I’m clean and even when they test these samples in 100 years, they won't find anything.”

Eight carefully scripted episodes

The eight episodes are an excellent way to look back at the 2023 Tour de France and prepare for this year’s race.

Episode one sets up the series and the Vinggaard-Pogačar battle with interviews with both riders from their homes and training camps, recalling Pogačar’s return from his scaphoid fracture at Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

It also captures the riders during a minute’s silence to remember Gino Mäder in their pre-race meeting with race organisers ASO in Bilbao, to introduce the crash narrative and reveal riders’ fears but also their determination to win.

Richard Carapaz crashed on stage one and the episode focuses on his subsequent abandon and how it wrecked EF Education-Easypost’s ambitions at the 2023 Tour de France.   

Episode two recalls Ben O’Connor emotional and physical struggles in the early stages in the Basque Country, while fellow Perth native and natural rival Jai Hindley won stage 5 and pulled on the yellow jersey.

The first sprint battles, Jasper Philipsen’s dominance and the many crashes fill episode two.

Fabio Jakobsen’s Tour de Pologne crash is shown again, while his high-speed crash on stage 4 is dissected and analysed in all its gory detail. Jakobsen accuses Philipsen of sparking the crash but he says: “We're not here to make friends with other teams.”

Cavendish’s crash and abandon is covered in the same episode, but the series ends with him promising to return to the 2024 Tour. 

Stage 4 is simply titled ‘For Gino’ and tells how the Bahrain Victorious riders try to win a stage to honour his memory, with Bilbao taking stage 10. 

The struggles at Ineos Grenadiers fills episode five, as Tom Pidcock fails to fight for GC and Carlos Rodriguez steps up and confirms his Grand Tour potential, winning stage 14 just 24 hours after Michał Kwiatkowski won stage 13. 

The Vingegaard-Pogačar battle takes centre stage on episode six as the Dane dominates the time trial and then Pogačar cracks.

The episode covers the suspicions created by Vingegaard’s performance and reveals how team manager Richard Plugge accused Groupama-FDJ of drinking beers on the rest day as a dead cat distraction to take the media spotlight and pressure off Vingegaard.

Patrick Lefevere and his spats with Julian Alaphilippe about his salary and poor results fill episode seven. The French rider jokes that he is paid “a bit too much for Patrick….” but went on the attack on seven stages to try to win a stage. Kasper Asgreen eventually saves the team’s Tour de France.

Marc Madiot responds to Plugge’s beer accusations during episode eight, which also recalls Pinot’s ‘Last Dance’ solo attack on his home roads during stage 20. The Virage Pinot was packed with screaming fans but following a perfect Netflix script, Pinot did not win the stage.

Episode eight and the second series of Tour de France: Unchained ends in Paris with the Champs Elysees sprint, the final podium and Vingegaard’s second victory ahead of Pogačar.

In the final moments, Madiot raises a sarcastic glass of beer as Pinot ends his Tour de France career, emotional but happy that it is all over. 

It leaves us wishing for more. Fortunately, the start of the 2024 Tour de France is only a few weeks away. 

It's back! Netflix's Tour de France: Unchained documentary is set to return for season 2 on June 11 pic.twitter.com/pupvAYsiXB May 16, 2024

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Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has boarded international rights to “Death Does Not Exist” (“La mort n’existe pas”) which is being showcased in the work-in-progress section at the Annecy Film Festival.

Currently in production, “Death Does Not Exist” is directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrière who previously helmed “Archipel” which won the Annecy Contrechamps Jury Award in 2021, and ‘Ville Neuve’ which had its premiere at Venice Days 2018.

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The director said he put a lot of himself into it hopes he’s “touched on some very topical concerns about contemporary social, political and climatic emergencies, about our intimate and collective aspirations, about what’s important to save, about the loyalties we must cherish and the price we must pay to do so.”

“Death Does Not Exist” is produced by Nicolas & Felix Dufour-Laperrière at Embuscade Films (“Archipelago,” “This House”) and Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron at Miyu (“Chicken for Linda!”). UFO Distribution will release the film in France and Maison 4:3 in Canada.

Martin Gondre and Charles Bin, Best Friend Forever co-founders, said “Felix is an auteur in a class of his own. His films have a unique sensitivity and beauty to them.” “In this new film, he has captured with rare accuracy the dreams, ambitions and frustration of the next generation, who no longer accept the society that has been promised to them,” the pair added. Best Friend Forever Cannes’ roster also includes Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award winner “Universal Language” by Matthew Rankin, Berlinale Competition entry “Shambhala” by Min Bahadur Bham and Panorama Selection “The Visitor” by Bruce LaBruce.

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