What I find it amazing is how fans all want cycling cleaned up and yet go to amazing lengths to defend their heroes.

Tyler's testimony backs up what Landis said about a biased UCI giving preferential treatment to some athletes. Now there is an allegation that a positive test has been hidden. Instead of an uproar over this, instead of a rising tide of opinion against that corrupt bureaucrat, McQuaid, people want to bury the truth.

Why? Because of something completely unrelated to cycling (Livestrong) And because hero worship is putting blinders on the ability of people to think rationally.

And so we get all sorts of reasons by St Lance should be exempt from being held to the same standards as everyone else.

I got one thing to say: f**k all you hypocritical a$$holes that are willing to let your fanboi hero-worship come in the way of critical thinking.

Livestrong has nothing to do with cycling. If you are going to use that as a reason to exempt St Lance from whatever happens, then give Landis his win back -he was nice to his grandparents. Or dismiss the case against Contador - he's very classy in supporting his team-mates. What, you say? Those arent enough reasons to exempt them? In that case, please define how much philanthropy enables an athlete for special treatment.

Rules are rules. If Lance doped, then the facts should emerge. It shouldnt be hidden just b/c this is St Lance we are talking about and poor fanboi sheeple lose their idol or are afraid of the consequences.

Sometimes, taking down the Colossus could be what is needed to instil large-scale change. In this case, that starts with UCI. I so wish the teams would leave and start a breakaway league of their own.