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A portrait of a man who will stop at nothing in pursuit of money, fame and success. It reveals how Lance Armstrong duped the world and how a few brave souls fought back, until eventually their voices were heard. An intimate but explosive portrait of the man behind the greatest fraud in sporting history. Lance Armstrong enriched himself by cheating his fans, his sport and the truth. But the former friends whose lives and careers he destroyed would finally bring him down. At the film's heart is a portrait of a man who will stop at nothing in pursuit of money, fame and success. It reveals how Armstrong duped the world with his story of a miraculous recovery from cancer to become a sporting icon and a beacon of hope for cancer sufferers; how Lance's cheating and bullying become more extreme; and how a few brave souls fought back, until eventually their voices were heard. The film reveals how Armstrong's cheating was the centre of a grand conspiracy - in which Lance and his backers sought to steal one of the greatest sporting events in history. It shows what happens when a close-knit group of friends shares a secret and how that secret corrodes their friendship, destroying marriages, careers and lives. (texte officiel du distributeur)
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