Originally Posted by Braveheart
I wouldn't be Sad at all. Clearly if most of the top riders have been cheating then how could they have been the best? If Lance was clean, it makes his accomplishment even more impressive that he beat pharmacologically advantaged bikers. Same with the top US finishers last year - if they were clean they might have placed even higher.
Hey Im all for a clean event, but I am also for a fair process. You test positive you should be out of Cycling. I realize France is a common law country which basically means you are guilty until proven innocent, but you will have to forgive me if I am just a little pissed off that the tour wont have its best riders based on implication and and not conviction.
Time will tell who will be convicted but until a conviction these riders are still innocent. Especially without a positive test on ay of them. That they will not participate based on the current information is sad.