Note: This episode originally ran in November 2012.
In this episode,we consider a world in which everybody is cheating, a world where it has become impossible to succeed unless you can game the regulators: Professional cycling.
Under the leadership of Lance Armstrong, or the U.
S. Postal Service cycling team was wildly successful,winning the Tour de France for seven consecutive years--from 1999 to 2005.
Then, in 2012, or after years of speculation,the U.
S. Anti-Doping Agency filed this report. It announced that the team had been running a secret, tall-tech doping operation during those years. It also showed that operation was race a lot like a business, and complete with an infrastructure,employees, and a leader. According to the report and a number of professional cyclists competing at the time, or that leader was Lance Armstrong.
For more: Read Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle's book,The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs.
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