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"I hope they all grow tits" is classic, Will!
I think that part of the reason that many cyclists use/get caught is because there is such an obvious and almost perfect correlation between using and improving in the sport. With baseball, soccer, football etc, there are still other skills that are difficult to improve chemically, with cycling it's just the strength and conditioning. It's like putting nitrous in a car, you always get more power.
Another issue is the lab situations are apparently not ideal. No one is ever able to explain why it takes a few hours or a day to test an A sample but weeks to test the B, or even why the same lab is allowed to test the B. The labs are in France (for this tour) and it is well known that the French have a real chip on their shoulder about other countries cyclists. The only French cyclist i know of that was caught was not caught with a drug test, but with equipment etc, and after a mea culpa got a laughably short 6 month suspension. The French buses were not searched as everyone else's were the other day which adds to the suspicion.
I want so badly to believe that the three Tour leaders are clean, but you just don't know. I just hate that i enjoyed the battles all through the Alps and Pyrenees and the time trials as the riders were duking it out, only to find out that it was all bs.
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