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Pro cyclists are feeding their families, true, but they also have dreams. He'll have spent twelve years dreaming of a win. He didn't start out as a pro with the aim of flogging his guts out on the lower slopes of a mountain so that others can win. He will have started out hoping for a win in the Tour or the Giro.
That dream came true thanks to a little help from Berty. It might have been the high point of the Giro for me, that and the Cavendish wins.
It's the traditions and etiquette of the sport that really make it for me, and actually eclipse the drug taking. Tiralongo will be riding for Berty next season (If he's not banned) and he will crucify himself all the more on the mountains.