I think Horner is wayyy over the top. He seems not to care if dying tomorrow or less dramatically getting caught.
I mean we all know there is/were crazy dopers (like Gianetti, Rijs, Virenque and Horner), medium dopers (like Järmann who did the necessary thing EPO but not more) and the clean guys (like Casar, Moncoutie, Bassons, and many young riders of today. If they were all over the top like Horner they would ride him into dust off the road. No way for him winning the ToC, leave alone the Vuelta)...
No I don´t think so. Again I come up with Järmann "If there was no doping tests riders would die (like in Bodybuilding/WWE kind of stuff)"...
When did I say that no one else comes up with grotesque performances?
This thread is about "best" doped up performance of 2014. For me the clear winner is Horner, doing the trick TdF-CG-17th with little race days, kaputt lungs, bronchial infections, and injured legs at age 40something, riding as "warm up" for the Vuelta defence and in support of Costa... It can´t get much more obvious and insulting than that. The most grotesque full blown doping performance of 2014. No more, no less...