Originally Posted by
Talldog
Irrelevant ... because it is relational to his current situation, the current riders abstinance, newly developed PED's, and today's drug testing environment, not the free for all that permeated the '90's era. They are surely not going to use the old "standby" PED's from the earlier days. Too easy to detect now. On the other hand, maybe you believe in Superman ...
Originally Posted by
bauhaus92
Good luck "Talldog" I tried raising this question in another thread and got thrashed. It's like they have never pulled for someone only to find that person cheated. It's happened to me too many times not to be skeptical for me the list is Landis / Rasmussen / Armstrong / Pantini / Contador. As I said in that earlier thread it is rare, very rare not to have at least one bad day in the tour, Nibali never had one in fact he dominated his contenders in every stage with the exception of Contador on that cat. 3 finish where he lost a whopping 3 seconds to him with Porte on his back wheel, the same Porte who cracked big time later on.
Oh come off it the pair of you. There's none of us not cynical about what has happened and/or is happening in cycling, but even with the sport's history you can't just pin every good performance on drugs. Nibali was most people's 3rd favourite before this race began, and 1 and 2 crashed out. He's a good GC Rider who found himself up against a weak field. Nobody's ruling out the possibility that he might be on something, but it's tiresome to have people assume that's the only reason he's been so dominant.
I think looking at the climbing times, compared with the height of the 90's EPO era, it's safe to say that the current testing systems are making a difference, in that while there's no doubt that there are still dopers in the peloton, at least they're toning it down a bit.