Tour de France 2013

Has anyone considered, just for a moment, that Sky/GB (yes I say that because they have the same PD and share many staff and riders) have been doing a lot of work to find legal areas which can be improved? Remember what marginal gains actually are?

Perhaps most of the other teams haven't bothered in recent years to try and improve the things right under their noses, purely because all the attention was focused on how to dope and beat the testing?

I don't think this is such a naive view to take TBH. If you seriously believe that the national squad are heavily involved in anything to do with illegal substances then you are probably a tough nut to crack. There's so much at stake in cycling and in sport in this country which depends on our people staying clean first and foremost.

However, I'm prepared to eat my hat if sir DB is found out to be an evil genius who makes Lance look like Arthur Daley.
If that happens I'll need to eat my clothes anyway, as I won't have a job anymore.

What about all the other big budget teams? You think Garmin don't invest in tunnel time, don't have sports scientists and nutritionists doing the same shit? They certainly aren't finding 'the edge' like Sky. Mind you they don't have so many Aussies working for them so of course they will be a bit behind the curve.

Hayles was on the GB squad wasn't he? He's not squeaky clean.