This is not true.

After Greg Lemond won his last tour, after that ,he started to get dropped in races, even though he was pedaling just as fast or faster. And that is when he realized that guys had moved on to an even greater form of doping and the field was no longer even.....never really was if you tried to ride clean.

There is still those who question whether Lemond doped, even though he stated that he has always been clean, because cycling has been doping since it’s beginning in 1903, with regulations being implemented in the 60s. It’s basically a sport where you have to dope to even have a chance.

Lance needed to dope as well. Not sure if you watched the documentary. But Lance admitted that he started doping at the age of 21, taking Corticosteriods as his go to PED. And that was before his bout with testicular cancer.....which possibly could have led to it.

Also, when he was with the Motorola team before joining the Post Office team, he kept getting ( as they showed in the doc) creamed in the Tour de France. Keep in mind he participated in several tour de frances before winning his first one. When he lost the last tour with Motorola , it was then that he realized that he needed to improve his doping in order to really compete . That is when he sought out Michele Ferrari, he was like the Victor Conte of cycling , and got lance into EPO and how to dope to really improve. Lance was actually over doping, taking too much stuff , which is why he probably developed cancer. Michele told him less is more, and lance took EPO from that point on and took over cycling.

So lance needed dope just like the rest of them and was doped since the beginning of his cycling career. Every last one of his titles was on PEDs, just like the rest of the cyclists. So he was not that much better than everyone else. He just learned to dope better.