Tour de France 2013

At the top levels of sport its very small margins that makes the difference between winning and losing. I recall a programme with a old Formula 1 boss, I think he was from Lotus in the olden days, who said that it is their jobs to push the envelope and to sit down with the rules and regs and go through it with a fine tooth comb and find areas they can exploit, and this is still the case with F1 today. Sky and DB seem very meticulous and part of marginal gains is surely to do just this. So be it a new wonder drug, colonic beetroot irigation or cherry flavoured nicotine patches or whatever, they will be trying out all sorts of shit. Does it sound sinister and not really in the spirit? To me, yes it does, but I think its naive to think it does'nt happen. They are sure as shit not doing it on bread and water alone. I know its the UCI's job to put any new performance enhancing stuff on the banned list, but they are, and always will be (irrespective of who is in charge) behind the curve on those new developments, so it seems we are destined to forever be adjusting the history books as new transgressions are discovered.

Well put.

I'm not sure testing is getting half of what's out there and riders will push the boundaries. I think this is why there's been such resistance to teams giving full access to journalists – some stuff looks bad as it is 'questionable' even if it is UCI legal.

If DB is now willing to show all the medication his riders use then that's a great step forward.

Up and coming rock stars do not need to take drugs to compete with established rock stars, they just need to write better songs and perform better - there is no evidence that drugs help this.

I guess that depends where you stand on... ...sucking Satan's cock