Lance Armstrong... greatest doper there was or ever will be

It's not just british footballers who are thick as pig shit;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/19910165
Possibly, the youngsters just don't like being tarnished by the doping of the (not so) past.

Geraint Thomas a month or so ago:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/19386735

Maybe they don't like that the men they idolised have been shown up as cheating fucks. Nobody likes their heroes being unmasked.