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00:08I've always really enjoyed the more
00:09fact-based movies that we've done,
00:11so the Lance Armstrong character
00:13and the whole idea of cheating
00:15in sports was something I thought,
00:17yeah, this is a really interesting arena.
00:19I have never tested positive
00:21for performance-enhancing drugs.
00:23He's the most complicated man in the world.
00:25I don't know if you call him a criminal or what,
00:27but he's a very, very clever fellow.
00:29He's a warrior, and warriors
00:31need wars, and his war happened
00:33being a bicycle. The Tour de France
00:35has become the Tour de L'Anse.
00:37It was such a good news story,
00:39it really urged you to believe it.
00:41When in fact, it's a con.
00:44Extraordinary allegations
00:45must be met
00:47with extraordinary proof.
00:51The story of this movie is about
00:53two characters. It's Lance Armstrong's
00:55kind of rise and fall,
00:56and his pursuit from Times journalist
00:59David Walsh.
01:00We can't censor this, it's too important.
01:03Walsh became suspicious of Lance Armstrong
01:05and what he's up to, but the sport itself
01:07and the various people who ran the sport
01:09weren't really interested in anybody
01:11exposing the fact that there was cheating
01:13going on. He's recovered from cancer
01:15and turned into bloody Superman.
01:18Why are you so obsessed with this?
01:19Why are you not obsessed with this?
01:21Walsh tried to find the truth
01:23and tell it to the world in the face
01:25of everybody admonishing it.
01:28Nobody's gonna say anything, nobody wants to ruin the party.
01:30The whole thing in the end turns on the fact
01:31that he took drugs in order to ride in the mountains,
01:34which is how he became a winner.
01:36He went from being a one day racer
01:37to a mountain racer in a sort of Frankensteinian way.
01:40Now it's time to go.
01:42You look up the Alpe d'Huez, it's an impossible feat.
01:46I definitely was one of those who fell.
01:49It's a joke now.
01:50They're asking us to believe this, it's a joke.
01:51Now as Lance became more successful
01:53and particularly in the Tour de France,
01:54there was a collusion between everybody
01:56who had anything to do with the cycling world.
01:59What if he keeps on winning?
02:00Well obviously we'd be delighted.
02:02Lots of the doping programs were team controlled,
02:05race organizers who knew things.
02:07It was just one big conspiracy.
02:09He is single-handedly transforming your little Eurosport
02:13into a globally significant brand.
02:15They knew exactly what they wanted, how they wanted it.
02:18He lied to a lot of people.
02:21The biggest problem is he lied to himself.
02:24Is there any truth to that statement?
02:25Absolutely not.
02:26It's a very, very complicated story, but then they are.
02:28It involves all these people and all these things
02:31and still you find out things every day.
02:33This isn't just a Lance Armstrong story,
02:35it's the story of Ferrari,
02:37the story of the people around Lance,
02:38who stood up to Lance and tried to get the truth out there.
02:43Armstrong got to everybody.
02:44He forced writers out, he forced doctors out
02:47and he forced journalists out.
02:49I won the race, I am owed that money!
02:52There's an element of a thriller about it.
02:53It's being made as a sort of heist movie.
02:56It's going to raise debate and this film
02:57is going to ask a lot of questions.
03:00Lance and his story has become a signpost,
03:03cast in stone.
03:06This way we must never go again.
03:07This way we must never go again.
03:08We must never go again.
03:13Grazie a tutti
