Help me find someone to root for at Le Tour

[GoGarmin]

So the big four:

Contador: Doping ban
Froome: Insists on being clean, but Leinders, magic leap
Nibali: Astana, US Postal 2.0, Vino, my god this guy is dirty
Quintana: Spanish team, teammates with Valv,Piti

Any thoughts on who might be the least dirty? Hope for an improbable run from Pinot? I'm trying to find a rooting interest beyond the theater of it all.

 

[SeriousSam]

Quintana is the least dirty of the Big 4, but he's obviously a doper nonetheless.

If you are in the unfortunate position where you cannot root for dopers, you can either stop rooting for the really good guys in all sports or you can attempt to pick some rider that hasn't been caught yet and aggressively suspend disbelief. Over time, you may well delude yourself into thinking he is clean. Pinot is probably a good choice for such a project.

 

[pastronef]

So the big four:

Contador: Doping ban
Froome: Insists on being clean, but Leinders, magic leap
Nibali: Astana, US Postal 2.0, Vino, my god this guy is dirty
Quintana: Spanish team, teammates with Valv,Piti

Any thoughts on who might be the least dirty? Hope for an improbable run from Pinot? I'm trying to find a rooting interest beyond the theater of it all.

I think you'd better root for some stage hunters. I don't know, Brammeier has not been selected, I'd go for Nathan Haas, but he was praising Hesjedal during the Giro (I don't care, but it seems you looking for someone not touched by any doping related info)
Bauer and Navardauskas, but someone will tell you they race for Vaughters who dedicated his life to Antidoping, even though it does not seems so.
some Bretagne Sechè riders?

I mean. don't look for any GC rider to find a clean one.

Quintana the cleaner? he disappeared for months in Colombia to prepare for the Tour...

 

[sniper]

what's the point? (honest question)
take the guy or team you find most sympathetic and cheer for them if you want to.
pointless to go look for a clean guy. Have you seen anybody trying to prove he's clean? Thought so.

personally i'm hoping for a good and fair froome-contador battle with a decision not before the end of the third week.

 

[GoGarmin]

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what's the point? (honest question)

Was curious who the Clinic thinks might be the least dirty of the big four.

 

[The Hitch]

Root for contador as that would be the first time someone has come back from a ban to win the tour de France ( and perhaps any major blue ribbon event).

That in the long run is a hell.of a lot more likely to make the sport clean than the way it has been for the last 20 years, with every winner being "clean" and thus everyone congratulating themselves about how clean cycling is since the winner has never tested positive hooray

 

[Big Doopie]

pinot

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

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pointless to go look for a clean guy. Have you seen anybody trying to prove he's clean? Thought so.

Gerdemann, Kittel, Degenkolb...

 

[ebandit]

win

pinot

that was my thought....................winning is not everything..............although how much

i would love to see pinot upset the odds

cheer him on ............he will dig deep and do the best he can

Mark L

 

[LeindersGains]

You can hope that the U23 boys have virgin souls.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Is Pierrick Fédrigo starting?

 

[pastronef]

so who's less dirty, Bardet or Pinot?

I prefer Bardet, but I have a feeling Pinot could be considered less dirty

ps. I forgot the Pellizzoti photo.
I prefer Bardet for that too

if Toms Skujins rode the Tour, unluckily we could not root for him either
https://www.twitter.com/TeamHincapie/status/615498021418078208

 

[robertmooreheadlane]

I'm rooting for the drug testers !!!!

 

[Jspear]

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pointless to go look for a clean guy. Have you seen anybody trying to prove he's clean? Thought so.

Gerdemann, Kittel, Degenkolb...

Nice list.

 

[Jspear]

Root for AC. He has never doped. It was just contaminated meat.

 

[Hugh Januss]

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pointless to go look for a clean guy. Have you seen anybody trying to prove he's clean? Thought so.

Gerdemann, Kittel, Degenkolb...

 

[Hugh Januss]

So the big four:

Contador: Doping ban
Froome: Insists on being clean, but Leinders, magic leap
Nibali: Astana, US Postal 2.0, Vino, my god this guy is dirty
Quintana: Spanish team, teammates with Valv,Piti

Any thoughts on who might be the least dirty? Hope for an improbable run from Pinot? I'm trying to find a rooting interest beyond the theater of it all.

How do you feel about cheering for the Lanterne Rouge?

 

[LaFlorecita]

Just root for whichever rider you think is most likeable/most interesting.

 

[ebandit]

lantern

do you think the lantern rouge will be a clean contest..........which recent GT was it

that a rider was fined for deliberately stopping before the finish to add time...........?

Mark L

 

[hrotha]

If you'd only want to root for clean riders, you're in for a disappointing life as a cycling fan.

 

[Jacques (7 ch)]

Support the man who rides the race best. It wasn't hard to support Nibali in week 1 last year because of stage 2 and stage 5. Yes, he went a bit ET later on but you can get a lot of enjoyment stage by stage, eg like Lars Boom.

May be harder in weeks 2 and 3... Wanted Pinot to do well last year but you knew it was over by then.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

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pointless to go look for a clean guy. Have you seen anybody trying to prove he's clean? Thought so.

Gerdemann, Kittel, Degenkolb...

Nice list.

 

[sniper]

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pointless to go look for a clean guy. Have you seen anybody trying to prove he's clean? Thought so.

Gerdemann, Kittel, Degenkolb...

i mean other than spouting baseless PR and doing pointless lie detector tests.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

At least they tried. It wasn´t Gerdemanns fault that no one took his offer... Hardly can blame him.

 

[sniper]

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At least they tried. It wasn´t Gerdemanns fault that no one took his offer... Hardly can blame him.

sorry, i missed that. what was his offer?