Originally Posted by Six jours

Seems to me the sport got along just fine until all the puritanical johnny-come-lately outsiders decided it was "sick". Now, instead of enjoying bike racing, we are bombarded from all directions by accusations, bans, sponsor withdrawals, and race cancellations.

So a serious suggestion: all of you folks who are so dreadfully concerned about the state of the sport can **** off back to the health club or wherever you came from, and the rest of us can get back to enjoying the sport as it was successfully practiced for the past hundred years or so.