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So is that it then, all winners of grand tours, are dopers - they must need help doping, so their soigneurs are assisting them - then they are not going to just be sorting out the tour winners, so the team members as well?
Its not logic to suggest that just because one rider won the GC on drugs that were rife and for the most part undetectable, that every winner from now on is on drugs.
The 90s and 00s were awful, the UCI had backed themselves into a corner by their own part in the omerta, the cover up. Armstrong should have tested positive in 96, not for drugs but because his testicular cancer would have showed up massive levels of testosterone (Alan Stubbs the footballer failed a test for the same reasons). Pantani was on Cocaine through large parts of his professional career - he tested positive once and was allowed back in.
Things have changed, now the world and the media have woken up - sponsors have. In addition, more is known about physiology and diets. I am sure it is not 100% clean but it's a different peloton these days. That's why I want to believe the riders are clean, and if not, then they will get caught. If I think everyone who is doing well is on drugs, well that's just depressing. It almost sounds like people want them to be on drugs, so they can moan about cyclists being on drugs like the old days. That ain't right. Give them a chance or cycling will never move on.