King Boonen said:
You are talking utter rubbish.
Merckx? doped. Pantani? Doped. Ullrich? Doped. Contador? Doped. Cipollini? Doped. Zabel? Doped. Museeuw? Doped. Coppi? Doped (wasn't against the rules then). Anquetil? Doped.
Answer this - why did they dope? Especially Merckx and Ulrich. Why did Merckx need to dope if he was so great and so in shape?
Ulrich doped because he was usually out of shape and form from the off season. He got lazy, because he could not get himself into form to compete with LA on dope. So he doped.
Pantini doped because he didn't have the goods except maybe on climbs. The media make him out to be this romantic character who was hard done by. He was a lazy cheater, no more, no less. He got what he deserved when stripped of his titles as did Armstrong.
Contador's only "doping" other than all the Clinic speculation was 50 picograms of clen on July 21, 2010, that had NO performance enhancing effect on his performance in the 2010 TDF. His tests from the beginning of that tour showed no traces of clen up to and including July 20, 2010.
The banality of your simplistic comment is that it fails to take into account context. The metaphor is this. A kills B therefore "A is a killer." But you overlook he did it in self defence, so he is not a killer even though he killed B. But the simple headline is A is a killer without context. That is your argument in a nutshell.
Just simplistically saying something is rubbish, without explaining why means nothing. It is being - well - lazy.