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I appreciate this is a can of worms because this is supposedly a different era but it can only be a good thing for the tour if the rider who has won the most stages has not been caught doping four or five times like Merckx was.
Whatever you opinions on the past and present, Cav is the rider to have won the most stages while never failing a drugs test. That's pretty special.
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Merckx' positives only came from eating all the riders that he beat, because their meat was contaminated by doping.
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Hmm, I think moral relativism is a dangerous rabbit hole to go down.
Anyway, Merckx tested positive three times in his career: for amphetamine in the 1969 Giro (which he still contests), for a stimulant in 1973, from a cough medicine, and for a stimulant in 1977, not four or five.
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Another can of worms perhaps, but would that also be valid for Pog if he wins this and future Tours? Just asking, as it seems so much suspicion has been thrown around, especially at 'he never tested positive' type of counter-arguments?
Oliver Schick
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Foreigner65
The way Cav celebrated this win made me think he doesn’t expect to get through the mountain stage. He said to one of his train: “We’ve done it! We made history!”
For me, the job is not done until Merckx has been sunk and we have RCav knighted as the undisputed greatest cycling thank you Jesus that ever graced the sport.