Why JV does stuff, who knows. WhyTF did he hire Dekker? Why he did he keep quiet about Heskedal's doping till it was leaked by Rasmussen? JV plays both sides of the fence and does it with lots of joy.
Gaimon was a poor guy who wrote a book about cycling on 10bucks a day. That kind of thing gets JV juice's flowing.
Why would anyone come forward and say things are still bad? Ashenden said there are pockets of doping as bad as the epo era, the others may not be as bad as that era but riders are not competing on bread and water. I used to see Di Luca training when i lived in Italy, some days he would be on his own other times with 2 or 3 other times in a small group of 10. My guess is Di Luca knows what the Italian teams are doing through his network of former team mates. I have not heard too many bad mouthing Di Luca.
Cheating is cheating. I dont give the peloton a pass because they are not EPOing their veins off! This is a hard sport and the culture and traditions of doping dont get cast aside easily. Plenty in the past have said it is impossible to ride GTs without dope. Considering speeds have constantly risen and it is not all down to technology.
I repeat, that i dont care whether a rider is using EPO or lying to get a TUE for steroids. That is cheating. It is not acceptable to me. It seems half the peloton has asthma. Of course they do

that is more acceptable lying about their health. Finishing bottles is cheating in my opinion. The culture is to cheat, which means doping. That guys are only cheating a little is still crossing that line. If you are going to cross the line, it doesn't matter whether you steel 1 cent or a million euro, you stole. End of. So the peloton is not on Riis/Pantani levels of EPO, but they are doping. It is part of the fabric.
One thing that struck me about Hesjedal's Giro win was that Garmin didn't go massive on THIS IS HOW YOU WIN A GT CLEAN! and then back it up with as much information to show everyone the sport is in position that riders can win clean, but we fond out that Hesjedal's blood levels rose in the 3rd week, which JV dismissed as machine calibration error. Convenient and no other tests done to make sure that is was an error. This also happened with Wiggins 2009 TdF blood results, 3rd week rise again machine calibration error. Nothing to back up how oftent he machine facks up test results.
Ya see in this sport loads talk about things being different, but you have to sift through the talk to see if there is any substance behind it all and i dont see any substance. The so called ex dopers still win, there is little to no transparency, teams lie and get caught then come up with stupid non believable excuses and then when dopers are caught the nice guys liek O'Grady, Schleck, Ballans and others doping is ignored by the peloton.
If doping was not the cool thing, then the sport would admonish the likes of Schleck, Ballan and O'Grady to name 3 big names never mind Bertie and Piti.
Why is no one slamming Froome for posting a photo f himself with Vino an unrepentant doper?
Doping is still a major part of the sport from microdosing, hgh, steroids, and now aicar, GW1516, TB500 and who knows what else till the police bust another ring.
Remember the police/customs have been the most effective at catching doping. The Federation failed and it only recently got a new president and he seems about as anti doping as his predecessors.[/QUOTE
So much hypocrisy in one post. All over the place as usual.
You claim teams would not hire a clean rider as they wouldn't risk it, I give you an example and suddenly the line changes to who knows why JV does things. If you make a claim, at least back it up.
Yeah Di Luca has so many former team-mates still riding. You realise there are two Italian teams at WT level and most of the riders on those teams are quite young and from a different generation to Di Luca. You claim there is still team-wide doping yet it is Di Luca who is stating otherwise.
You claim any doping is doping regardless of what is done well then how can you have any respect for Kimmage, he doped, end of. Official doper. By your own standards. As you believe dopers cannot change, how can you give any credence to Kimmage or are you saying dopers can change.
So if the peloton are no longer at Riis/Pantani levels, then something must have happened to change things. As you claim anti-doping is a waste of time, I am intrigued as to what you think caused this change. Also I thought you dismissed the idea the sport was any cleaner.
Finally the culture to dope in the 80s was exactly the same and there were far less tests, no police raids, no MPCC, no OOC, no BP, no Festina, no Puerto, if you tested positive, you might get DQd for that race and pay a fine or maybe a 3 month ban if you were very unlucky and no big media hoopla about doping or testing positive, yet you believe there were clean riders capable of winning the biggest races in the world at that time. So effectively you are saying even though the culture was to dope, there were those who didn't dope yet you don't believe there are any clean riders today. Hilarious stuff.