I am a minority here, but I gotta say this anyway. I dislike LAnce for personal reasons, he's basically a jerk. It may be that that's the attitude you have to have to be a team leader in cycling, but I don't have to like it. That said, I believe that professional sport is and should be fundamentally different that amateur sport. In Professional sport, the riders make their living by being good, taking risk, being noticed, bringing sales and notoriety
to their sponsers/owners. Who am I to say they take too much risk? Factually, all professional sports participants risk a great amount of permanent physical damage by participation in sport. So how risk much is allowable? and what kind? There is no "purity" in professional sport. Think of the number of tell-all books by former athletes, telling of spit balls, illegal hits and tackles, way to fudge starts, bounadires, and the like. It has always been and will always be, win however you can get away with. Thats the truth of professional sport.

Amateur sport, until people were able to make huge money at it (Think track and field), had a different attitude, and purity had a place in the competition. The only reason cycling has a issue with drug use is because the UCI decided that they wanted professional cyclists to be able to compete in the Olympic games and thus became subject to the WADA. Thus the spotlight was focused on the personal cost of being a professional cyclist.

So I believe it would be good to return to the "old days". Professional sports can prepare their athletes however needed to get the best performance, drugs included. There is risk to the athletes, but like all other professions, that risk is considered and is part of their compensation. Let amateur sports have strong anti drug policies and programs, and the purity comes from competing for the sake of the competition. Professional sport is about making money, pure and simple. I am not saying that there should be no rules, but the current chase to ride professional cycling of drugging stands little to no chance of success, promises only more and more draconian measures and achieves exactly nothing to ensure a non-exostant purity of sport.