Fallen Giants: Festina | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Festina. A short-lived dynasty, but one with a giant legacy.  Arriving on the scene in the early 90s with superstar Sean | dG1fVTVjZFI5bDVfVjg

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00:00 Festina, the team that rocked cycling to its core.

00:04 [FOREIGN]

00:05 >> And then it just went nuclear.

00:08 >> Whose downfall revealed the extent

00:10 of doping within the peloton.

00:11 [FOREIGN]

00:15 >> Like discovering that Father Christmas doesn't exist.

00:19 >> And triggered revelations that brought

00:21 the Tour de France to its knees.

00:23 [FOREIGN]

00:29 >> For them it's almost an attack on their kind of very being that

00:32 the Tour de France is damaged by a story which is so seedy in its kind of nature.

00:37 >> The 1998 scandal ripped through the pro peloton and

00:40 its effects lasted for years.

00:42 >> Festina scandal came, it was really, really harmful to French cycling.

00:47 >> But who was the team behind the fall?

00:49 >> The team owner was keen to get a big team,

00:52 a team that could take part in the big races, Tour de France, etc.

00:56 >> What did it reveal about how the top teams operated?

00:59 >> I don't think anybody was as prepared as they could have been for

01:03 the sheer volume of what unfolded.

01:06 >> And what lessons can be learned from the Festina scandal and

01:09 the race labeled as the darkest tour?

01:12 >> It just became ridiculous.

01:14 You could just see it was going to get worse and

01:16 worse until something major happened.

01:18 >> This is the story of that scandal,

01:20 whose name is now indelibly written into cycling's history.

01:23 [MUSIC]

01:33 (whooshing)