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Originally Posted by GGG
Who is the best finishing rider in any drug tainted tour de france who hasnt been caught yet? No one knows beacuse all of the named riders were caught. Over time people will have a more pragmatic view of drug use especially when the governing bodies endorsed or turned a blind eye to its use.
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I don't know and I don't care who the best finishing rider in a drug-tainted tour is. What's the difference? If the whole era is tainted by cheating, it's finished. There's no respect left for it. It might as well not exist. Nobody won. Everybody lost.
A "more pragmatic view of drug use" is the same thing as "a pragmatic view of cheating".
Ben Johnson was the fastest runner in the world in 1988. 25 years later, has anyone taken a "pragmatic" view on what he was up to?
All he did was cheat. He didn't deny it for years, wracking up gold medal after gold medal, and suing anyone who suggested he was cheating, but he's still a villain.