Originally Posted by
Devil
I think Al was the most honest out of any of them, aside from Phil's comment about how riders go to the mountains alone to "prepare" (he used the quotation marks hand signs) with EPO, altitude training, doctors etc. and then ten days later you can't detect it. I was surprised he said that.
There is a code of silence with regard to the widespread prevalence of pro cycling doping within the pro cycling industry, Al broke that code, and that made the others uncomfortable.
But, I too was surprised at Phil's comments, for they were broaching breaking the code too.
Yet still, even with Al, there is this sense that they are trying to convey that there are only a few bad apples here and there, but it's not widespread. Note that they only concede as much as they absolutely must, given what even the ignorant now know, because conceding any less would be farcical. Al might have gone a bit further, but if you ask me, it's all farcical at this point.