There has never, in the 100 plus years of Tour history, from the early days when cyclists used cocaine dissolved in Brandy to stay awake and riding to the advent of amphetamines in the thirties through to the sixties and then the rise of steroids and PED's been a clean winner in the Tour, there isnt now, doping in cycling has never been considered cheating, it is a team sport, the teams organise the doping, the race organisers warned the teams when they where going to be tested and colluded to make sure the teams could use, in fact what blew the lid on doping in cycling was a team van was caught by border guards taking a back road to cross the border into France from Luxemburg during the Tour and was packed to the gills with PEDS roids etc.
The great Jacques Anquetil 5 time tour winner '57 and then '61 to '64 straight when asked about dope was candid, his two famous quotes where 'leave me alone, everybody dopes!' and 'you think we can ride those mountains on water alone?'
Lance Armstrong was screwed over because he was American, and for once Amercans who know absolutly nothing about the Tour became interested in a sport where the riders all use, Lance became the whipping boy for typical American double standards over drug use, if he had been French the US would have carried on happily ignoring a sport that totally condones drug use and always has, no one gives a toss that Indurin used, the whole affair was hypocrisy beyond measure
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