Tour de France 2007

Hovis Brown I don't think the argument is about the difficulty of the sport, but rather that those riders who use drugs are at an unfair advantage to those that don't.

brett If they all do it then the playing field's level anyway.

I think the benefit of taking the drugs is that they recover sooner, can ride faster, can fend off exhaustion better in the latter parts of a stage.

I don't think it matters that all of them are doing it. I love watching the event and the doping doesn't bother me. I like the fact that each day they perform to the same calibre as the day before.

It's a bit like wrestling in my mind. It may be fixed, it may be choreographed, but you still have to be a pretty insane athlete to do it. And the spectacle is still worth watching.

Is there doping? YES
Does it matter? NO

Or so it is according to my opinion.