Originally Posted by
sprince
This kind of alternate reality thinking seems to be peculiar to cycling. Pete Rose broke the rules of baseball, he is banned from baseball for life and will likely never be in the hall of fame, yet the records remain.
Vacating victories is not unique to Baseball. You get caught cheating in the Olympics, your gold medal gets vacated and passed down.
You cheat in college football, you lose your national championship, see e.g. USC.
And the Pete Rose analogy doesn't hold up. There's zero evidence that Rose cheated in anyway to get his 4000 plus hits. He's banned from baseball, not for cheating as a player, but for gambling as a manager.
Originally Posted by
sprince
can you learn from the past if you bury your head in the sand and pretend it never happened.
Wut? Leaving Armstrong as the winner of the 7 TDF's would be burying your head in the sand and ignoring the entire doping issue. You can't address doping in cycling if you act like that never happened.