Grahaml wrote:whufc wrote:Time for the sport to let them all take drugs.
They will never get on top of this and there will always be questions asked about the champions for the next 100 years.
Let's not forget the level of drug taking we know of in most sports now is very similar to what we thought was the case in cycling in the mid to late 90s. Cycling takes the fight more seriously than any other organisation and it's this very reason we even exposed riders like O'Grady, Armstron, Ullrich etc.
Well said, 'Operación Puerto' in 2006 uncovered over 200 names of Athletes that has blood doping samples, we only ever heard of the 30-40 cyclists every other sport just swept it under the carpet.
What sport do you know off that an athlete must notify the governing body where they are training and living at all times so the testers can roll up.
They have to provide a biological passport now, so cycling does so much more testing than any other sport.
Back to O'Grady its disappointing but not surprising, mid 90s to mid 2000s was EPO & Blood Transfusions galore.
To say he only did it once come on mate, we aren't stupid.
To get an understanding re doping in cycling and why Athletes do it read "the secret race" - Tyler Hamilton.
The best quote was you either go Pane e Acqua (bread & water) at the back or on the juice at the front