Mark Cavendish, the best UK cyclist?

But the latest carbon wheels or whatever won't give you a fatal nocturnal heart attack.
What is so sad about doping is the fact that when it was prevalent the same guys would probably have won without it - they would just have been a little slower

I mentioned the health risks invovled with body-chemistry tampering, and think that's a calculated risk that certain sportspeople make, although I realize they may be puppets in the hands of managers and politicians.

It could be argued that the latest carbon wheels will fold up under you on an 80kph descent when you run over an ant or something, and bring about a fatal head injury.

In some ways, athletes could benefit from taking performance enhancing substances that sharpen up their mental accuity, in order to cope with the reduced reaction times that are necessary when moving at the kind of speeds afforded by lightweight super-aero kit.