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Tadej Pogačar has joined cycling’s most exclusive club with a fifth Tour de France victory. Officially, he now stands alongside Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault and Indurain. But a recent comment from Lance Armstrong has reopened one of the sport’s most uncomfortable questions: is the real record five, or seven? This video explores the seven blank spaces in the Tour’s history, why Armstrong’s victories were never reassigned, and what those missing winners reveal about cycling’s darkest era. As Pogačar continues to dominate, is he chasing an official record, or the one the sport still remembers?
If you liked this video you will love our other video “Armstrong Got Erased But Ullrich Didn’t (Here’s WHY)”. Click here to watch it – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gVdpCuBzE8
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Ja the new bike technology and supplementation dieting you know. So much better. That's why records are broken to this day.
Maybe Lance knows what Pogacar is injecting? 😆💉
Why on earth are we even giving Lance Armstrong oxygen? He raced dirty. He cheated. He lied, bullied, threatened and intimidated everyone. He didn’t win 7. He won nothing. I believe Tadej just loves racing. And isn’t focussed on records. And he’s generous when defeated, which is something you could never, ever say about Armstrong.
Really enjoy the Roadmnan vlogs. The sociopaths opinions are an irrelevance, bullying vulnerable woman, destroying careers, riding on the back of cancer sufferers and the long term damage of trust the sociopath did to our sport, well you have to question any individuals moral compass if they support that.
He will want 8
Love the video and the arguments, and agree with pretty much everything.
But two ad breaks plus a plugin to sell a program, all within 12min video is pushing it quite hard
Pogačar did say in an interview 2026 TDF, about how long he will compete on tour, and said he has 3 in him. Which is like saying i want 7 titles on TDF
Why does anyone even acknowledge Armstrongs comments. He was the biggest cheat in cycling. 👿
I love your podcast. But it can certainly do without boosting the ego of the biggest cheat in cycling history.
I have seen him win those tours as well. So what? He still believes he is the best TdF rider because of it. Why else would he mention what the „real“ record is?
The reality is that in the Armstrong era and even before, we don’t know who the real winner would have been, because cheating was so prevalent in cycling. And that’s a shame.
2 ad/sponsored segments in a sub 13 minutes video is just too much. YouTube is worse than TV ever was, now. And I’m not even taking into account the ad rolls that people without YouTube Premium have to go through…
There’s a lot of dumb people on here 😂😂. If you have any evidence at all please share the source.
Why do this video Armstrong is never to believed again….
clickbait title
he really wants to win Paris Roubaix
Imagine a tournament of Call of Duty where someone one 7 times and was then revealed that it won using Hacks. And then comparing with someone that never used a hack and putting the one with hacks as the bar. That’s how ridiculous it sounds
I would really appreciate if the The Roadman Podcast would stop using the term "opens up" in its video titles. It's just clickbait. And for me, it really works the opposite way: when I read a title like this, I now know it's something-something involving Lance and Pogacar, but definitely not Lance revealing some inside info about Poggy.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheRoadmanPodcast/search?query=%22opens%20up%22
No one credible gives a ff of what the biggest cheat in cycling says.
Those that give him any time at all, can only be of the same cheating character.
No matter what, cycling was always a sport of taking whatever substance and pushing your body with it to the Ultimate limited do or die. Since the world has became feminised & people wanting the Utopian dream of fairness the sport has changed trying to portray this fakeness, if doping was still like it was Pogacar would still be the best. So Lance Armstrong won all 7 because they all doped like 99% of them, so we have to bow down to the utopian system & stupidity & say his a cheat!! "Well he is with no sin cast the first stone". I think Pogacar will get to 8 or more!! He is a true Champion nevertheless!!
I believe Tadej, when he says there is no number. I think he'd rather win every big one once than 8 TDF titles.
Those who share the podcast with the cheat, can only be cheats themselves.