10 Films That Unveil The Dark Side Of Sports
4. The Program
Lance Armstrong's fall from grace was a heart-wrenching moment in sports history. This shocked the world and had put the sport of professional cycling’s integrity in question for many years to come.
The story starts out great about a man getting a terrible form of testicular cancer that overcomes the odds and returns to the sport he loves as one of its greatest riders ever to grace the seat of a bicycle. This epic comeback story was the stuff of legends and ended up proving that if something is too good to be true it probably is a lie.
The Program unveils the dark side of one of the most heinous doping scandals in all of cycling’s history. The only way he could win, no matter how hard he worked, cheating was the only way to be a champion. He sold his soul to the devil and lied to millions of people. His treachery is something that the Tour De France and the sport of cycling will have to continue to shake off as time continues.
Lance Armstrong took the world by storm and then brought it to its knees. He was told do whatever it takes to win and that is actually what he did.