Is anyone clean?

Watched the prologue to the Dauphine yesterday after having been too
busy to follow pro cycling for a few months. Almost the entire
broadcast seemed to be taken up with who was out of the race for
doping, who was allowed in even though they're suspected, which teams
are gone, which might be gone for the TDF this year. It was unreal.
Maybe I haven't been following the pro cycling long enough so I'm a
naive wide-eyed idealist, but it was insane to listen to an hour and a
half of OLN basically explaining who has and hasn't been caught doping,
more or less.

When you have Armstrong's former right hand man (Haras), a former
teammate (Hamilton), an entire team undera cloud (Phonak) and on and
on and on it's hard not to wonder if it's not time just to cancel the
TDF and wait until there is real testing in place.

And please don't give me the (baseball players use steroids) argument.
I don't watch baseball. I stopped watching long ago. And I'll stop
watching cycling if every race is a jig-saw puzzle of who got caught
and who didn't. Not so much because it screws with the integrity of the
sport (although it does destroy what little integrity is left), but
more because it's boring to watch a sport where half of the discussion
and drama is about cheating.

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