And yet his performance wasn't better. There's no doubt a big part of doping is to help with recovery, but that should translate into continued high performance through all the stages. Instead, he looked physically destroyed after the second, PUD-enhanced, race. Who knows, maybe the PUDs led him to overtrain, but he certainly didn't do as well as he'd done just a year before.

BTW, I've known several doctors who specialize in "anti-ageing." Like the specialist in the film, they always look like hell.

Actually, I thought he did hint that those elite top-10 amateurs might be doping when he said something like "They're on another level" or something like that. And yet isn't Fogel an elite amateur? He finished 14th a year before, while riding clean. And yet doping with steroids and testosterone and EPO and a rigorous organized intensive training program didn't improve his performance. He still couldn't crack the top 10 during the first half of the race, before his battery died, and in the last two stages of the race he couldn't even hold his place at 26th or 27th.