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Episode 14: The Tour de France – More than a race. Less than the truth.

“You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water. You would have to be an imbecile or a crook to imagine that a pro-cyclist who races for 235 days a year can hold the pace without stimulants.”

Jacques Anquetil, five-time Tour de France winner

It is without doubt the greatest cycling race in the world – just don’t ask what’s in the water bottles. Legends are everywhere, but clean ones are harder to find. Where endurance meets amphetamines, pain meets painkillers, and a yellow jersey rarely means a clear conscience, the Tour de France is a race fuelled as much by scandal as it is by glory – and yet, somehow, it never disappoints.

Because here’s the thing – what these riders do is superhu ...