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That's really well put, T-V.
Coincidentally, I just found a TDF video from 1999 knocking about at work, just reading the names in the GC... There's no way the same attitudes to doping exist these days, but I wouldn't like to put a definitive timescale on it, it's more of a gradual process which isn't yet complete.
If the sport if to prosper and reduce the damage done, we almost have to accept that it's not necessarily useful to apply today's sensibilities to the tour riders of decades past.