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I don't see it in the article but I heard it recently so I guess I'll share. Lance Armstrong was on the Joe Rogan Experience and discussed doping within the sp
by atom-morgan 10y ago
I don't see it in the article but I heard it recently so I guess I'll share.
Lance Armstrong was on the Joe Rogan Experience and discussed doping within the sport. He said at one point in time, people would thread fishing line through a wine cork. They'd tie the line to the tail of a car and stick the cork in their mouth. As the car starts moving, the cork pulls against your teeth giving you just enough pull.
- wmeredith 10y agoThat's got to be the most French way of cheating I've ever heard.
- Gmo 10y agoThat's because you don't know about the early days of the Tour de France where the racers would drink wine along the way.
- exabrial 10y agoHaha what?? Did they have camel backs back then
- adaml_623 10y agoThey used glasses you barbarian ;-)
- soperj 10y agoWine skin. It's been around forever. We use them while skiing.
- Someone 10y agoThe early years were different, though. It was illegal to get any help. In one famous case, a rider got a 3 minute time penalty because he let a boy operate the bellows while he welded his own bike (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Christophe#1913_and_the_Tourmalet_incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Christophe#1913_...) And aside: alcohol works! The correlation between "drinking champagne during a stage" and "winning the Tour de France" is surprisingly high, even in recent years.
- syncsynchalt 10y agoI'm 90% certain you're making a joke; the last stage is pro forma (for GC) and the presumptive winner traditionally shares a bottle or two of champagne as they ride into Paris. No easy feat even for riders comfortable with group riding, but of course they are pros for a reason! At least they've switched from glass to plastic in recent years.
- WalterBright 10y agoSounds like a fine way to lose your teeth.
- hyperion2010 10y agoMore like a good way to get a nasty fishing line cut when it snaps back and smacks you in the face.
- soperj 10y agopretty sure the cork would break before your teeth.
- WalterBright 10y agoI wouldn't want to test that theory.
- Bootvis 10y agoThen you're not a professional cyclist ;) The lengths they will go to for a small advantage...
- shpx 10y agoFor context, this was in the early 1900s http://www.bikeroar.com/articles/the-4-greatest-bicycle-cheats-in-history http://www.bikeroar.com/articles/the-4-greatest-bicycle-chea...
- Luc 10y agoWhat the hell? This guy, Hippolyte Aucouturier, was a legit great cyclist, not a charlatan. He won Paris-Roubaix twice! I can't find anything about this cork biting incident involving him, and I reckon it's made up out of whole cloth.
- arto 10y agoJoe Rogan Experience #737 - Lance Armstrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEfSdPz1WtA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEfSdPz1WtA