Fun fact: Despite the fact that alcohol is obviously a central nervous system depressant, not a stimulant, when official anti-doping regulations were first drafted in the 1960s, alcohol was grouped under the broad umbrella of banned "performance-enhancing stimulants" because of how athletes used it.
Alcohol reduces inhibitions, dulls the perception of pain, and provides a temporary rush of confidence and because it masked exhaustion and allowed riders to push past their physical limits, early twentieth-century sports culture viewed and classified it alongside actual stimulants like cocaine.
Partially a lot of sports in the modern day are kind of we’re all adults here, gay! Football a bunch of men running around in tights so they can feel up on each other. Basketball, the same old boring I got the ball now I’m gonna go this way, but I got the ball. I’m gonna go this way.
I never thought cycling would be entertaining! Usually it needs more horsepower, but if we’re stopping randomly doing stuff like this. I’m here for it.
Fun fact, in one of the Early TdF's a rider broke his bicycle's fork, ran down a mountain to a nearby village and used the Smithy to repair it himself. Then got Disqualified by Desgranges since the Apprentice blacksmith operated the bellows.
Might as well get drunk and win the Tour de France, eh? But I guess in the 1930s the medical knowledge weren't up there yet. Drinking alcohol during an extreme sport like cycling is dangerous because it impairs coordination, accelerates dehydration, and severely slows reaction times. So, I was like "Huh!? Why not just water or some juice or something? Why alcohol?"
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Fun fact:
Despite the fact that alcohol is obviously a central nervous system depressant, not a stimulant, when official anti-doping regulations were first drafted in the 1960s, alcohol was grouped under the broad umbrella of banned "performance-enhancing stimulants" because of how athletes used it.
Alcohol reduces inhibitions, dulls the perception of pain, and provides a temporary rush of confidence and because it masked exhaustion and allowed riders to push past their physical limits, early twentieth-century sports culture viewed and classified it alongside actual stimulants like cocaine.
The media has been inventing news for centuries
Partially a lot of sports in the modern day are kind of we’re all adults here, gay! Football a bunch of men running around in tights so they can feel up on each other. Basketball, the same old boring I got the ball now I’m gonna go this way, but I got the ball. I’m gonna go this way.
I never thought cycling would be entertaining! Usually it needs more horsepower, but if we’re stopping randomly doing stuff like this. I’m here for it.
Nice try Diddy
Copying other videos and making a story
That is the frenchest thing i have ever heard. They should bring it back. Just be a cafe with limited time breakable shit and bunch of alcohol.
Fun fact, in one of the Early TdF's a rider broke his bicycle's fork, ran down a mountain to a nearby village and used the Smithy to repair it himself. Then got Disqualified by Desgranges since the Apprentice blacksmith operated the bellows.
Desgranges was a dick
Limiting water is just dangerous.
This all sounds way better the tour de France. They should bring back looting and boozing
Might as well get drunk and win the Tour de France, eh? But I guess in the 1930s the medical knowledge weren't up there yet. Drinking alcohol during an extreme sport like cycling is dangerous because it impairs coordination, accelerates dehydration, and severely slows reaction times.
So, I was like "Huh!? Why not just water or some juice or something? Why alcohol?"
Some of the most irritating people on the planet
The greatest Tour De France was in 1940
I mean, I kind of want to see this return. It would make the rece much more entertaining.
Thought it would be good advertising for their alcohol 😂
And this is why it's always important to understand the final business purpose behind the technical specifications.😊
No wonder they keep going around in circles, why the race takes so long, and why winners stagger to the finish.
So the inventor of the Tour de France was a sadist, who knew.
Is crazy how long it took us to have guarantee safe water in the first world, can't imagine what is like in Africa
Alcohol dehydrates, how stupid.
Broe created his own environment 😂😂😢
So it went from a dero bogan event to a stuck up elitist snob event in pess then 100 years? Wild transformation😂
Cyclist being selfish?!?! Impossible?!?!
This sounds much more fun than what is happening now. Bring it back please
Absurd history is my favorite genre of history
@durianrider this true brah?
Lol illigale stimulant. That's pour poison for that job
DUI all day long :))))) hope the coffee shops posted on instagram :)))
High trust society behavior
Don't forget using dianabol and meta anphetamines
Tour de GTA 😂
Ngl cripping one of those riders ransacking your stores would be a nice change
How many newspapers did he need to sell to make up for paying the cafe owners?
This is SO French!
I never knew that the Tour had such a long history and different origins.
Alcohol is not a stimulant lol, and not illegal.
Music is not loud enough
French like looting themselves.
Shout-out to the first winners of the Tour de France, May10-June25 1940 😊
Not only the bikes and strategy were improved they also got access to Steroid's.
Thats why they act like ducebags on the road. And ignore rules
Change it back and millions more will watch