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I find it quite interesting the somewhat sudden questioning of Astana, of course everyone's got their suspicions, but my twitter feed has had multiple people questioning it, because somewhat coincidentally, they've had 2 winners in WT racers in a day.
A link to their notable results this season shows that really, their success has come from 3/4 riders - Izagirre, Lutsenko, Fuglsang and LL Sanchez
I'm not defending them, but a few stage wins and a couple of GC's is hardly indicative of must-be-doping? You could very easily argue that Izagirre, Fuglsang and Lutsenko's only WT wins this season wouldn't have happened unless they were so far down on GC already... again, hardly dominating superpower must-be-doping behaviour?
Some perspective on the season is needed I think, especially when comparing to the likes of DQS who have links with known or highly-suspected-of-doping doctors (can't remember which, but Ingain Taus [or something similar] is the name I remember )