A TdF “doping shock”? Is that like a deviant Hollywood producer shock?
nine out od ten olypians claim to be
asthmatics
who believes that claim?
The Vuelta runs on the road not far from my house so we went up there on race day to see what it was all about. A group of riders nobody but a hard core fan could recognize blew by us in about 15 seconds, and that was it. It was free and even then I was left wondering if I got my money’s worth.
In terms and history of Professional Cycling, everybody knows the story and downfall of Lance Armstrong. After winning 7 straight (1999-2005) Tour de France titles, technology and accusations of cheating finally caught up with him (and his teams) in 2012 when all of his victories were voided back to 1998.
What was/is notable is that the Tour de France organization, the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), ruled, based on the fact that 6 of the 7 second place winners had already been found guilty or confessed of ‘doping’, that those years had NO WINNER! Thus the organization implicitly admitted that no team could have competed in those years and won without a pharmaceutical advantage and that Armstrong’s teams were just better at the ‘game’ than the others.
Kinda ironic, no? Either play the game better or don’t play at all? Especially when the ‘no play’ choice means finding a different career and abandoning the field to other ‘dopers’! What would any of us done in that situation? Personally, I’m glad I was not in that place to make that choice!
Let them all dope up to even the playing field. The ones who currently have an advantage are the ones who don’t get caught..........
If the bicycle riders would only add a motor then they would not need any drugs.