Giro D'Italia 2013

It isn't just the riders though is it? Look at the team management of most of the teams and there are ex-riders who either tested positive or rode for teams with organised doping programmes. They are as much to blame as the riders, if not more so, for the continued acceptance of doping as the norm.

The sport needs leadership more than anything else, which is why McQuaid should not be re-elected as UCI President. The trouble is, what credible candidates are there to replace him?

Credible governance is the number one need, then perhaps a truth and reconciliation process to wash the dirty laundry in public and finally put it to bed.

But you're right: how is there hope for a clean sport when so many ex-dirty riders are now in administrative roles? They are ones looking to guide the neo-pros when their moral compass is way off. Also after the oputrage about Leinders, pretty much every team has got a dodgy doctor stashed away some where. The sprot needs a cleaner break with its past.