Watched the program last night. A really good insight, even after reading various books.
I find him fascinating. He has, or had, so much drive and self belief - making him an ideal athlete, but with a screw loose in the moral scruple department. If he hadn't been an athlete he could have ended up as a gang boss, or the CEO of a multinational, or a successful politician. Certainly not an ordiary Joe.
If he hadn't happened to turn up at the right time to ride the wave of emerging methods of oxygen vector doping, it's entirely possible he could have become a genuinely great cyclist but I'll bet he could never have become an uncontroversial one.
Betsy and Frankie Andreu made me laugh, how they came over. She's so smart and focused and he seems to be a complete dork. I can just imagine him getting back to the Andreu household ... Betsy: You sold the cow for beans?? Frankie: But they're magic beans, Betsy.