Yes cycling seems to have come a long way which is great. I'm not just talking about cycling though - what with the Olympics coming up I can't help wonder how much of it will actually be a competition. It should be an amazing spectacle, but I look at past champions and think a lot of them were...
So what sports now require the competitors to test all year long and keep biological passports? I didn't think they were that widespread yet.
The only thing that will ever change is whether or not they can be caught, there will always be people willing to cheat if they think they can get away...
Not being caught is nowhere near enough to suggest someone is clean. Marion Jones doped her whole life but was never caught, and she won 5 Olympic medals in Sydney. It's only because she was turned in some years later that she was found out. Carl Lewis was never caught - nice brace though.
Griepel and Sagan are in good form, I don't think they'll be thinking like that. Cav went early yesterday and Sagan was out of position, but he made up loads in the final 400m. If he'd timed it better he could have won - at least I think that's how he'll see it.
Cheers
PS - anyone watch that telly program thing on the 1988 Olympics 100m final? Amazing. Seems that I was one of the few people in the world that wasn't on drugs.
So Contador has been done for doping. So if he was clean, would he really be good enough to challenge Froome? I suppose it would be fun to find out. Is Contador being tested at the moment?