Olympics 2012 track cycling

It used to be that a lifetime ban would've emptied the sport of all athletes (on road and track). But that is no longer the case.

I've come around to the idea of a lifetime ban now. The sport no longer has to tolerate dopers for fear of destroying the sport, now the dopers would just be destroying their own careers.

Millar should be gone, Bauge gone, Vino gone, etc.

You can't change the past, but you can make the future in whatever way you wish. If the UCI would have us believe that the sport is clean then it needs to be clean.

Just my opinion.

I have been pondering this at length for a while. I can understand the pressure of young professional and amateur athletes to perform to get a good contract/secure sponsorship, and I can also understand that when you are young you can be foolish, and impressionable. I would hate for someone to pay for the rest of their life for one mistake.

That said I hate the thought of drugs cheats like Vino and Bange winning medals at the expense of clean riders, its loathsome, which leans me the other way.

A lot has been made of Sky's use of Leinders, Yates and even Rogers but I guess while they came into the sport with the right intentions, given that it will really be another generation before you can hope the sport is fully clean its hard to see how they could avoid it totally.. Pointing out someone the the pro scene who has doped or is associated with doping, be they current pros, ex-riders turned DS/team owner or cycling doctors is like shooting fish in a barrel.