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Cycling's kinda fucked, isn't it?
I don't agree. I'm fairly sure the monuments and grand tours will be contested for at least my lifetime. What may be challenged is individuals and companies ability to make big money out of cycling, but that doesn't bother me. It would be better if it was all amateur to be honest.
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Tihange has been leaking since it was built.
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I didn't mean it is about to implode or anything. Doping in sports is fucking EVERYWHERE, its just in other sports it's ignored: the fans, the authorities and even the journalists aren't interested, because of the money sloshing around there: no one wants to get off the gravy chain. I mean do you think football fans want to hold their favourite player accountable? When Rio Ferdianand got busted Fergie went nuts and blamed the authorities and the fans never thought of him as a doper.
In cycling there seems to be this giant act of self-flagellation over doping. Lets face it, everyone in the sport is tainted, all those heroes stretching back over the years: Coppi, Simpson, Merckx, Kelly, Indurain. Hippy wants to claim Cadel won it clean, not according to a corner of the internet who think he was a Ferrari client. Cancellara was linked to Fuentes, you got Wiggins and his jiffy bag, Contador and his steak and now we have Froome the alien, the most unlikely emergence of a GT winner ever, the transformation all the doubters point to, from hanging on to a motorbike in the Giro, to almost being let go by Sky, then suddenly in the 2011 Vuelta he's the strongest in the race, and should have won. Then he repeats that trick in the 2012 Tour, and the rest is history: from unwanted domestique that could barely ride a bike to the bestest there is. And for that to be believable he needed to be 100% squeaky clean.
And then this. And it all comes tumbling down, and cycling is once again involved in collective navel-gazing and hand-wringing wondering why the hell he got pinged for something as innocuous as a few extra puffs of ventolin. And it is going to drag on and on and on. I'm just so bored of it. Not the actual cycling, just the fucking internet circus around it.
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This is all a bit meh, I'm already so bored of this and it is going to last well into the season, and we probably won't get a satisfactory conclusion.
Cycling's kinda fucked, isn't it? it's the one sport that is properly making an effort to clean house, that properly goes after the big names (post Lance anyway) despite the damage it does, while other sports where drug use is rampant seem to get away with it, because no-one, journos included, want to rock the boat.