2014 Pro-cycling season thread

Yet no one seemed to feel the same about a cleaned up Armstrong or a cleaned up Valverde.
I don't know what, if anything, Contador is up to now. It's not as if his form ever dropped off in an Andy Schleck way; he has won the Vuelta and been fourth in the Tour since his ban but this year he is certainly better again. It's not possible to blood dope in the way it was in the past but marginal gains through cheating must still be there. Thomas Voeckler springs to mind. Chris Froome and Wiggins and Talansky and Evans and Kelderman don't.
Given a choice between those kind of riders and people who have profited, in every way, in the past from cheating I know who I will be rooting for.

Agreed. I suspect Contador is riding clean now, he doesn't seem untouchable in the way that he did, and his subsequent wins seem often to have been the result of tactical nous.