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@Jimmy_Fingers
Pro-cycling is ridiculous, it's so difficult to trust any performance, good or bad. My brother bought me pressie of a picture book of 100 years of the tour. I flicked through it and found it hard to find riders I could believe in. What performances am I supposed to believe in now? Sky's, with their employment of Leinders and domination of the tour last year? Hesjedal, given the teams he has ridden for and his late blooming into a GT winner? Contador? Sagan? Spartacus? Cav?
Defend Basso if you like, but there's a good chance he doped his entire career and may still be off and on.
Cycling probably no worse and these days may be a lot better than many other sports, they've managed to keep it under better wraps, but you can't blame someone for questioning performances and riders, given what has gone before. It's the theatre of the absurd.
I will qualify that by saying I buy into a lot of what Vaughters says, that the peloton is much cleaner now, speeds and power outputs are down and in such a clean, talented rider can win.
Basso was a client of Fuentes. He certainly doped at some point in his career, and he's never been repentant about it to my knowledge. I'd say he's fair game.
In fact wasn't there all that stuff in the Fuentes trial about them losing Basso's bags in the tour? I need to look that up.
It was funny