David Millar - The Truth About Performance Enhancing Drugs

00:00 | Trailer
3:01 Brian’s thoughts on the episode
05:41 Brian’s introduction
06:06 What drives someone to be a professional cyclist
08:10 What makes a great cyclist
11:05 How David managed exhaustion, suffering, and hurting
16:00 Drug use in sports as portrayed in Icarus film and David’s damming views on IOC ethics and morals
22:59 Why cycling became clean
26:40 David’s argument for a change in punishment for drug taking in sport
28:02 Public dichotomy in wanting the best from their athletes while condemning those who cheat on drugs
29:32 Sporting world: a paragon of excellence, human condition at its best, corrupted by the normal world
31:51 The IOC must be held culpable for the state sport is now in and needs to take the lead in reform
32:52 How British cycling sport has changed in the last 20 years
35:47 The doping culture that previously existed in British cycling
37:42 You can’t plant what you think you know onto Lance Armstrong because it doesn’t apply, he’s unique
42:36 David admits it was possible to beat the system, it became a game, the compass had been smashed
44:27 Success Secrets
46:04 The mental damage done to athletes by drug taking is a serious issue and one that needs immediate attention
50:47 The drug that mentally affected David52:02 Sport should be the last bastion of purity
54:20 With gene therapy developments, will drug agencies be able to detect performance enhancement
55:33 David’s purpose is to disrupt and make a difference despite the IOC holding the keys and the locks
56:58 Sport has almost become an arms race with the IOC serving as a gladiatorial arena
58:32 Why there has perhaps been no doping scandal in American Baseball, Soccer or Basketball
1:02:54 The effects of Cortisone and EPO on David
1:13:31 What it is like to compete in the Tour de France and how it feels to become the yellow jersey
1:17:40 What it was like to come back after the ban and why he did
1:23:59 Peoples reaction to his message to the sporting world now and the success he has had so far
1:27:26 What it was like competing again in the Tour de France as a clean athlete
1:32:00 David speaks of his love affair with bike racing and the painful ending of that affair
1:35:18 Creating his new project CHPT 3
1:37:07 Finding a higher purpose in being the voice of anti-doping
1:37:58 The doping ban while coming as a relief also broke him up completely
1:39:34 What he does with the haters
1:44:27 His message to all athletes about drugs
1:47:58 David’s ultimate optimism for the next 100 years
1:50:20 His final thoughts on what people and big organizations need to understand to make the change
1:53:21 Brian’s summing up.