blackcat said:frenchfry, definitely a doper, you have that right.
but just like wiggins, and everyone who has won an ardennes classic for the past coupl'a' decades, dan martin of garmin included. just cos you ride for garmin does not make you not a doper. but Froome is, NOT doing anything differently than the top 20 at the Tour, and riders like boonen and cav and canc, and sagan. and the young too americans, tvg and AT,
so lets not single out froome. ofcourse. he is doping. that is manifest and i wont deny the obvious, cos that would be stupid. but looking at everyone on a GC goal is using preparation also.
I don't know. Sky seems to have special dispensation from the governing body and race organizers, not unlike what Lance's teams had. Now, I don't dispute that most everybody is doping. And guys like Cav and Cancellara would be riders I'd expect to probably have UCI protection. But Sky, with all their money and media backing, seems to be a specially-protected subclass of riders, in my opinion.