Doping

The last comment is best, Lance won the 1996 Tour...

Were any riders not doped up to the eyeballs on the 96 Tour? If there were, I doubt they were more than just a few. My former teammate finished that Tour over three-and-a-quarter hours down on overall on GC, and he admitted to me on more than one occasion that he had to dope himself "up to the eyeballs" as you say - just to do domestique duties. JUST to be a domestique! And to lose over three hours!