Zenovich’s film comes seven years after Armstrong finally admitted what he had long vociferously denied—that he used performance enhancing drugs (PED) en route to winning an unprecedented seven consecutive Tour de France titles
. Comparing Jordan and Armstrong, she marvels, “You’re talking about people from another planet. They’re not normal humans and they are incredibly strong and ferocious and willful and amazing athletes.”
The revelations cost Armstrong all of his Tour victories, millions of dollars in endorsements and something even more precious—the admiration of countless people worldwide who respected him not only as a great champion but as a hero who had survived metastatic testicular cancer.is a great one,” Zenovich notes. “I was just interested in seeing the man and what he was doing and how he was coming to terms with what he had done.”.
“Based on the interviews I did not just with Lance but others at that crème de la crème level you had to dope at that time,” Zenovich comments. “It wasn’t just Lance Armstrong, [but] Lance took it to a new level.”At the beginning of the film Zenovich acknowledges the risk of expecting the truth from a man who for years not only presented himself falsely but brutally attacked anyone who dared speak about what he was doing.
“I think it’s a combination of his upbringing and a combination of his mother who had him young and I think was growing uphim,” she avers. “I mean, she was what, 16, 17 years old [when she had him]. The combination of not knowing who his real father was and then being adopted by his stepfather who was really pushing him.”premiered last month on ESPN on consecutive Sundays. That wasn’t the original plan.
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