Originally Posted by
Rowan
By calling out Armstrong, at least USADA, the UCI and ASO have sent a message that there is a risk of even the biggest in the sport being caught and punished no matter how much power and influence that competitor seems to wield.
That hopefully will get down to the junior ranks which will supply the riders of the next decade. And they are the people we should be concerned about -- the juniors -- rather than some arrogant bully who is now branded the sport's greatest all-time cheat
Yeah, I broadly agree with this, though frankly I don't give the UCI any credit. And the governing bodies of many other sports are worse, they simply choose to pretend the problem doesn't exist.
As for the juniors, the most depressing feature of the current scene, for me, is that doping appears to be increasingly widespread even in the amateur ranks, where virtually no money is at stake and many of the riders concerned have no prospect of advancing to the pros.