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to have them removed.

(medical monitor beeps)

(man) OK, some nice deep breaths

for me.

Keep holding it there.

Box shape paramedian flap

should give us enough access

for a transcallosal approach.

We'll need 0.5%...

(surgical noises fade)

(doctor) This is a really

punishing treatment.

As of now you have essentially

no functioning white cells.

Your platelet count is about zero.

We're doing all we can with

the transfusions and the antibiotics.

I don't know who's gonna blink first,

the tumour... or you.

(woman) Mr Armstrong?

- Would you like some help?

- There's been a mistake. I'm not...

Think you ought to go back to the ward.

I'm not supposed to be here.

- Don't you want to go back?

- I'm a world champion.

- Why don't we get a chair for you?

- I don't need a chair.

Sit in the chair now, Lance.

OK.

( Door opens)

(Frankie) Lance?

Lance?

You look good, kid.

- Still breathing.

- What happened to your hair?

I look like that guy from Star Trek.

So when you getting back on the bike,

champ?

When you bring me a bike.

- I wouldn't wanna break the rules.

- Excuse me.

I was reviewing your records.

Could I clarify a couple of issues

in your history?

Hey, you sticking around?

Yeah.

In the past, you were

on no regular medication?

- (Lance) No.

- You ever use any other drugs?

Any performance enhancing drugs?

- What is this?

- What?

- You heard it?

- Yes.

And you knew about that?

- Yes.

- And what about you?

Betsy.

(door creaks)

(breathes heavily)

(heavy breathing increases)

Are we racing?

You got a lot of work to do, buddy.

I've done what you asked.

My shape's changed.

Chemo diet really works.

- (Ferrari) What matters to you, Lance?

- Winning.

Anything else?

- I love my mom.

- More than winning?

- What's your V02 max?

- 84.

- What does that mean?

- It's my maximum oxygen consumption.

Literally, yes. But what it really

means is that you were born to lose.

When your compatriot, Greg LeMond,

won the Tour de France,

his V02 max was 93.

So in a straight race between you and

a man like him, you will always lose

because he delivers more fuel than you.

And when you climb a mountain

on the wheels,

you need fuel to generate power,

to lift the weight.

- OK, well, I'll do whatever it takes.

- Good.

(Ferrari) The Professor and I, we had

an interest in sports, in physiology.

How does an athlete improve?

The simplest question of all,

but no one really knows the answer.

So, we use science

to stop this business of athletes

just training without logic.

We do tests. We analyze the results.

And then we do it all again.

Increase the cadence.

You see, this is not just running up

a hill in the hope of getting fitter.

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