Originally Posted by
RecceDG
Look at the people willing to throw rocks at Armstrong - who never failed a doping test. What will Contador's legacy be now?
Originally Posted by
patentcad
Good question.
The worst thing about doping in sports is that is casts a pall over every participant. The most unfair aspect of the whole sorry affair is that we now have to wonder if any result in any race - pro, and even to some extent on the amateur level - is clean or not. So Armstrong's own legacy is already tainted to some degree by the mere suspicion of doping. If he really was clean, that's the most bitter angle on this whole thing. But of course we all think maybe he wasn't regardless of how many doping controls he passed. And why wouldn't we think that at this point?
According to Kohl, never failing a test is irrelevant.
“It’s impossible to win the Tour de France without doping,” said Kohl, who was in Leesburg, Va., to speak at the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s science conference. “You can tell by looking at the speed of the race. Every year it has been about 40 kilometers per hour. It’s the same the year I raced, the year Floyd Landis won, this year. It shows riders are still doping.”
That's a sad, yet frank, assessment of pro cycling. Should we believe Kohl? Quoting you Pcad, why wouldn't we?