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Either everyone is clean, or everyone is just slightly grubby i.e. cleaner than LA/Pantani etc so they don't post up numbers that go beyond the physiologically possible, but grubby enough to gain a slight performance advantage. Or the emphasis is on recovery.
The shame of it is we don't know. As has been said many times, drugs tests are IQ tests: you can dope happily and not get caught if you are clever. The peloton is much slower these days but just as riding fast doesn't constitute proof of doping, neither does riding slow mean you are clean.
Talking of numbers, watching Contador attack again and again and each time srub off all his speed once caught made me wonder if he was trying to make sure his numbers didn't look too fishy.
I'll go get my tin-foil hat. The lizards are coming! They rule the world already! Pat McQuaid is the Overlord, Lance is their champion