The Program 2015
By
Stephen Frears
Is Lance Armstrong the greatest villain in the history of sports? For a cancer survivor to return to the world of cycling and winning the extremely strenuous Tour de France six more times, and then to lose it all !
No fall could be worse….neither Satan’s, not Beelzebub’s.
The film is based on the USADA Reasonability Report and the crusader journalist David Walsh’s Seven Deadly Sins (of the Sunday times) to capture the life and times of Armstrong. The doctor Michael Ferrari who devised the program for Lance and his team is also under focus and so is Floyd Landis, a teammate who then even manages to win Tour de France after Armstrong’s retirement.
Was this a conspiracy of silence? I mean, with his height and weight and VO2max (84) it was obvious that you got to be cheating if you pale your rivals into insignificance. But could this have been said without proper evidence? That’s the question, one that has no obvious answer.
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