sittingbison said:
Oh Libby noooo! Please stop while you're ahead!!!
FFS when will a sportsperson stand up and say "thank christ they are making an effort and catching dopers and, even going after the biggest name in the sport. It doesn't matter who you are, doping is cheating"
And yes big ring, I would like to hear Evans say just that. The silence (lotto lol) is deafening, its still omerta from pretty well everyone including Wiggo. Come on Cadel, come on Wiggo, come on Hesjedal, come on Cav (and any other recent GT winners and world champs), speak up!! now is your one and only and last chance!!!
It's an interesting conundrum, isn't it?
Cadel is hands down my favourite rider, but mainly because I've ridden in a bunch with him and seen him stick to his prescribed power output for the day while most of the rest of us hammered the climb. He had no ego, or it was firmly in check.
Why aren't they talking?
I honestly believe Cadel has hinted at things, but that's as likely to be me projecting as anything else.
And the more I think about it, the more I wonder why we want them to talk. To prove (?) they are clean themselves? Justifying our faith in them? Our fandom?
I think that's part of it for me. But I already believe Cadel, so if he said something (like: I am clean, or this is good for the sport) it would just reinforce my belief - which is what happens for Lance's fans when he trots out the same message. But I have already convicted Lance in my head.
I (perhaps deludedly) think I understand Cadel and where he's coming from. And he does not feel it is his place to say anything. Regardless of what we think his place is. And that's what he said. That's what I would prefer they say than Libby's tweet. Or worse yet Brad's support of a 71 VO2 max doping wannabe.
In the scheme of things, it goes
UCI
Team management
Riders
and we're disappointed in the riders for not saying something. Meanwhile the team managers for the most part are hiding things, denying things, and the UCI are entirely corrupt and conducting coverups and suing reporters for repeating what riders have written.
The more I have thought about this, the more I think the riders should be caning their managers, managing up if you will, to cane the living crap out of the UCI. Coz that's where the rot starts.
As much as the riders are rock stars, I still think they are employees (I am trying to empathise here) - which is why LA was an anomaly, coz he owned part of the team and was the team, the boss, in effect. No other rider can really make that claim.
Interesting.
, will have made documentaries (because they will soon feel free of the threat of litigation, if they don't already) and the world will be wiser anyway.
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