Perhaps this has already been noted before: Riis, Pantani, Heras, Hamilton, Landis, Ullrich, Basso, Cobra, Valverde, Contador...I know I've not mentioned everyone. All GT contenders, all admitted to or were found positive, or in any case banned over the last 15 years or so. And during an entire 7 year Tour streak, while competing against most of these world class riders on dope, indeed some had been farm raised on his team, nothing ever happened (despite 6 99 positive samples for EPO) to Lance.
Surly he must have been clean! Surly there is nothing afoul with how the UCI handels its anti doping campaign! Surly none of the other contenders, not mentioned, were doped! Surly Schleck was riding on bread and water last year too!
This is not justice, but a total sham! A total ridiculous obscene farse!
And I make no excuses for Contador, but how can we place one rider under indictment when so many others are guilty of the same crime and feel that justice is being done?
How can we except that the greatest fraud in the history of sport, till now at least, passes with a "clean bill," while the greatest tallent in recent decades is removed conveniently from his thrown for a few grams of something that undoubtedly his competitors were on, or on something? This is like Pantani all over again, only worse, because after everything else we have had to put up with since then!
I'm starting to find no other alternative, but to side with Torri.