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Don't worry about making a cheat rich, I hear he's hired a literary agent dubbed 'Mr Sixty Percent'
Decster thats a pretty jaundiced view
agree with your point about riis, suprised you mentioned the schlecks, how rubbish would they be without peds ? and i think even the UCI agree with you on Contador...
BUT if you doubt even likes of garmin and HTC with very public anti doping systems and to my mind pretty believably middling results in grand tour GCs as a result, who've you got left clean, anyone?
There are individuals that are still in the sport from the epo era, riders, managers, and i'm sure there are still people doing things but overall the racing seems more believable again - the roulers cant climb and the climbers can't time trial anymore - i read the sport more clean than not clean, especially in the classics.
btw on topic - i'll be interested in the book.
I wonder why his 1996 title hasn't been stripped from him? Possibly because they'd have to dig deep in the rankings to find the first clean finisher I suppose.
My enduring memory of Riis was him throwing his TT bike away the following year like a petulant child.
Have not seen Riis redeem himself and he is still part of the doping omerta that thrives in pro cycling.
Schleck brothers are about as clean as open sewer and Contador no better. Riis plays the game the same as the rest of the sport has always done.
As for Garmin being clean, I still question that considering their performances against the likes of HTC (former T-mobile), BMC (former Phonak) RadioShack(Bruyneel/Ferarri) and Saxo/Riis.
As much as I love the sport I watch it with both eyes open.
Millar was ratting out Suanier Duvall and calling spades spades on that team but not calling out USPS/Discovery/Phonak etc etc.....
Slight uneasy feeling about making men who became rich by cheating, more rich.
The same has to be said of David Millar's book.
Both men have taken steps to redeem themselves and act as spurs to a clean sport. Undoubtedly this would be an interesting read.
But still the uneasy feeling persists.