Originally Posted by dutret
We will never Know. As it stands it's very likely he was doping If the B test fails too I think we can say with reasonable certainty that he was. If you are seriously opposed to doping(and I assume you are since you refer to it as cheating) and want to eliminate it then you should be in favor of weakening the standards required to deem someone guilty rather then strengthening them. A rent-a-docs note should not be enough to excuse a rider. Look at how many people in Operation Puerto had never failed a test. Even if some of them where only mistakes I think its safe to say that testing provides alot more false negatives then positives.
I'm not seriously opposed to doping. I only used the word "cheating" since it gets the point across. People are going to bend the rules in any competative event. Its been the driving force (no pun intended) behind motor racing development since 1903. I'm just bummed because I was pulling for floyd during the race and I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. Innocent until proven guilty, and such.
On a side note, my girlfriend just took the BAR exam and said she got herself through it by thinking "if floyd can race for 20 days on a dead hip, I can make it through a 3 day test." Shes really bummed about this.