To give some balance, i also personally know a guy on the lap-racing circuit who is clean as a whistle and wouldn't dream of it...
To give some balance, i also personally know a guy on the lap-racing circuit who is clean as a whistle and wouldn't dream of it...
Marco, I agree with everything you wrote but not with your conclusion that cycling is now cleaner than ever. Remember, Lance Armstrong "never failed a drug test". Now we know 1) he "never failed" because it was easy to cheat, and 2) he did fail at least one test and he just paid hard cash to keep it under the radar. The organizers wanted it that way. Marion Jones never failed a drug test. My take is: I used to accept the official "clean" results. Now I don't.
I like to think most are clean.
I assume the vast majority are juiced
Poacher turned game-keeper
But still no discussion of this years tour? Just endless rehashing of the drugs in sport debate.
Great days racing yesterday. I think Sagan really wants that Green Jersey. He messed up the final sprint though trying to lean on another rider and came off worst unbalancing himself.
I was a bit gutted for Eddie Boss. He's getting on a bit now and was so close.
Not sure how the Pyrenees will work out without an uphill finish on either day.
I've only been over once to watch the TdF in 2014. It doesn't seem like 6 years ago. I was lucky enough to watch them go over today's HC and then follow the race down to Bagneres.
I'm not a cyclist at all, but the descent of the Port de Bales was an unbelievable surface and I loved it.
Those guys made it look so easy going up the climb.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell