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It might be a little easier to believe what had happened today if I didn't know that Gianetti was the UAE manager and I hadn't read the Operation Adderlass findings about artificial haemoglobin use in cycling in recent days. I guess I'm a romantic at heart and want the highs (and lows) of the sport to be real, even though I know that drugs have always been part of the sport. However when even my girlfriend , hardly the most knowledgeable cycling fan , watches Dumoulin and Van Aert's horrified faces at the end and unprompted says 'they know Pogacar's doping' we have definitely found ourselves in a place where the description 'unbelievable' is sadly likely to mean just that.
Never seen this before! Question of doping?