Perhaps we need to adjust our mindset slightly and learn to live with the logic that pro-cyclists are telling themselves: Everyone is cheating so I need to just to be able to compete.

Once you get used to that you can start idolising these athletes again as you had previously. And whereas before it was "Froome/Wiggins is the greatest cyclist I've ever seen, and he's riding against a field of really talented cyclists."

Now it's "Froome/Wiggins is the greatest cyclist (who's cheating in a way that most of the time isn't detectable), and he's riding against a field of really talented cheats."

What do you think? Does it lose a bit of the mystique? Was it better when we pretended cycling had suddenly become clean overnight?