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Pro cycling's main issue is that no-one can believe in riders who burst onto the scene and instantly start winning races, precisely because most of the riders who've done that in the past 20 years have subsequently been shown to be doping. It was fairly common for exceptional talent like Coppi, Merckx, Roche and Lemond to start their pro careers with a bang, i.e. Roche won Paris-Nice as a neo-pro.
The biological passport does seem to be having an effect though, so unless Sagan has been doping since he was a junior, which is not unknown, then it's not without precedent.