hrotha said:75% of Clinic posts nowadays are sarcastic and tired reiterations of the same overused joke.
75% is something to aspire to. And, there is more than one joke - some are overused.
In this case, the observation referred to news that is barely one month old. We haven't had enough time to overuse this joke, yet.
Some will remember this from a late August interview with Hesjedal:
"Ryder Hesjedal says he stopped doping in 2004. He was going backward (sic) on mountain biking’s World Cup circuit, finishing worse than when he rode clean. ..."
Thus, we are to believe that yes, you can use EPO and it will make you go backwards. Yup, you read it. Backwards.
Vino attacks everyone was merely putting 1 and 1 together, and observed the commonality in race performance with and without doping.
Dave.