Jun 22, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min · 11 segments
This week, Payson sits down for a candid conversation with Levi Leipheimer. They discuss his long road to processing his time in the WorldTour in the early 2000s, which was marked by remarkable…
Levi LeipheimerGuest
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It came out that they used a performance enhancing drug when I was a senior in high school.
And I wrote a paper about how bad that was and how I would never do that to later than do it myself.
It's not something, like I said, when I was 13 years old, I didn't dream about doing that.
And then when the biological passport came along, I got to tell you, it was such a relief.
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It came out that they used a performance enhancing drug when I was a senior in high school.
And I wrote a paper about how bad that was and how I would never do that to later than do it myself.
It's not something, like I said, when I was 13 years old, I didn't dream about doing that.
And then when the biological passport came along, I got to tell you, it was such a relief.
