Overcoming

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Audience Member This is a strange documentary, it's like cycling brought to you by Oliver Stone in his 'Natural Born Killers' phase. The screen is cluttered with jump cuts, text flashing across and constant shifts in tone as if Gislason suffers from ADHD. Perhaps that's a fitting approach for the EPO era especially a team that Tyler Hamilton has recently exposed as every bit as organised in their doping as US Postal. It's still interesting though, and Bjarne Riis in particular is a fascinating character. Watching with the benfit of hindsight the ghost of EPO does loom large and even more so the control that Armstrong had over the peloton is phenomenal. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a very well done film on a professional cycling team - Team CSC - just as it was maturing and before it catapulted into the limelight to become the best pro team in the world for three consecutive years. Led by a former Tour de France winner, Denmark's Bjarne Riis, we see the ascension of Ivan Basso as nemesis to Lance Armstrong; and a younger enfant terrible Carlos Sastre, who accepts his role as super domestique but rebels agains Riis' training methods. With CSC leaving the sport of cycling as sponsor, Team CSC proper ended at the end of last year. With a new Danish sponsor, Saxo Bank, the team continues today as Team Saxo Bank. The team achieved last year what had been sought since its creation in 2003: winning Le Tour de France. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Awesome fly-on-the-wall documentary of a pro cycling team during the Tour. Nothing escapes the camera. A real eye opener. Well worth a watch. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Much in the same tone as hell on wheels, but the action and the pace does drag a litle as we caught up in the story of team CSC. Well worth the effort though. Special features in the dvd were a little disappointing. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member A good movie that let's us know how the life of a bicycle team really is, without the doping of course! Don't really understand why Lance is in the cast list here? Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member An interesting glimpse behind the scenes of the sport I love. Especially cool 'cause I was in France for this Tour. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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