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badboygolf16v

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Cavendish in the Q&A session after 'Chasing Legends' says that cycling is the cleanest sport. In fact, it's 100% clean now. *

So, as you were guys and girls. Go about your business safe in the knowledge that the scourge of doping has been eradicated.

* Apart from a few cheaters. But there will always be cheaters anywhere in any walk of life, right?
 
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Suck it, suckas!!!

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Sprinters dope too, but it's mainly an off-season game for them these days. I doubt any of the top sprinters aren't cheating at some point during the year.
 
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Well, Cav may have a point, in that it's not the only sport where everyone dopes.

But somehow I don't think he was trying to say that.

I hope he gets on a good program over the winter to ensure he makes it over Cipressa and Poggio.
 
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Ferminal said:
Well, Cav may have a point, in that it's not the only sport where everyone dopes.

But somehow I don't think he was trying to say that.

I hope he gets on a good program over the winter to ensure he makes it over Cipressa and Poggio.
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Uhh. I believe he already won Milan-San Remo
 
BroDeal

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Looks like Cav has been taking lessons from Saint Millar on how to destroy your credibility with outrageously stupid comments about doping.

I do not trust any rider who would say something that dumb. It looks to me like a rider who wants the media attention on doping to go away, probably because he himself is a hardcore doper.
 
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One of the most bone-headed comments I've heard yet. What's he going to say in another month or three when the next positive or scandal happens?

Fool me once, shame on you. Try to fool me for the 572,849th time...
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I wouldn't read too much into what Cavendish says.
If these comments came from someone with a bit more intelligence it would be worth analysing.
Coming from him its just a Homer Simsponesque soundbite.
 
L'arriviste

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I think Cavendish's utterance merely illustrates the inevitable state of representative equanimity into which figureheads of sport or any other cultural happening tend to fall.

Put simply, they tell you what they think you want to hear.

The problem with this sort of parsimonious mediocrity is that it depends almost entirely on the speaker's assumptions about his/her audience.

All that Cavendish's calculated blandness tells us is that he thinks cycling fans, sponsors and any other drive-bys who will see this thing do not want to hear about doping. When in fact, at least for the former, the opposite would seem to be the case.
 
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He says what people want to hear, and what his sponsors want him to say.

It's amazing how many people still don't really know how bad things are.

Before the cinema last night, a bunch of us from the club met up. There's a young lad, ex club member in a sponsored team just come back to the UK. Earlier this year, he went training in Tuscany and rode with Cav round Quaratta and Pistoia.

When I asked him what he reckoned was going to happen with Big Tex, he said, "I hope they don't find anything". He was genuinely unaware of the EPO positives from 1999, and willing to suspend all disbelief about US postal, and 6 foot 2 inch rouleurs stomping mountains. The constant stream of positives week after week just seem to each pass him by as unconnected, isolated "bad apples". It's a "see no evil" attitude.

And this from a guy who's knocking on the door of pro feeder teams.
 
badboygolf16v

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andy1234 said:
I wouldn't read too much into what Cavendish says.
If these comments came from someone with a bit more intelligence it would be worth analysing.
Coming from him its just a Homer Simsponesque soundbite.
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Cavendish struck me as far from stupid, he may not be media groomed, but he's no idiot. YMMV.
 
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Do we have a link to any article, interview reflecting these comments.

I would prefer to argue over the actual quote rather than a single soundbite provided by a member of this forum.
 
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He said: "Almost 100% clean", not "100% clean", the two are quite different. I'm not saying I agree, but it would be better if you didn't misquote him.
 
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