Tour De France 2011

The doping thread is, for some reason, in the Track section. I don't understand why, given everything that has happened, you want to continue with this, let's not talk about it, let's leave it to the UCI, attitude. It's always been the people who really care about cycling that have been the ones who insisted on talking about it. I just found a copy of Cycle Sport from June 1999. Phil Ligget has a piece in there saying how he thinks the fight against doping is being won. Oh, how we can laugh now at his naivety.

Liggett has never been fussed by doping in the sport. I remember reading a piece he wrote for Cycle Sport some years back, just after Ullrich was caught. Liggett approached Jan and said that he was sorry for his 'problems' within the sport - Ullrich turned around and said 'What problems?'
Liggett thought this was inspiring, a testament to the stoicism of victimized riders in the face of adversity.
In my eyes, this makes Liggett an utter cock. He thinks he knows so much about the sport, the old school code of silence, the omerta, and as such he thinks doping is an unavoidable necessity.
The peloton is not clean, not by a long stretch, but it is definitely cleaner.

As for Contador, I'm of the opinion that one of his other products was slightly tainted with another drug in the lab, in this case clenbuterol. Not based on fact, just an opinion.