Isn't that the very best summary of where we have been since 2012. The organised cheats remain steps ahead of the testers. If Sky remain number 1 beneficiaries of using science to know exactly where there is a line and where no line exists, then by voting Cookson to watch duties, there is a guy at the helm who will only put the telescope to his blind eye, for his 5 or 6 year tenure.
This is a guy whose raison d'etre is linked with the rise of British Cycling from Boardman roasting World Champ, East German Jens Lehmann 1992 (Wall down 1989) who most certainly could only have been a product of a systemised doping regimen of the DDR. The "magic bike" never seemed quite so good when ridden by other Brit riders. There was no test for EPO, so a fair hypotheses would be that Boardman & Keen did not cross the line, but spotted where there was no line and took advantage of moving into the void (i) before their competitors had grasped what epo was doing on the road and (ii) before the muppets in charge were woken from being asleep at the wheel and did something to address the issues.
Move on through Queally and the sprint boys with access to the best supplements, and the endurance track riders, through Cav in 2009 right up to Wiggins 2012 and Froome 2013. Froome and the rest are not going to trip any wire, they are surrounded by the best science, that informs them exactly what tripwires are around them and how close to any obstacles they are. Even if a tester were to call at a stage in the "preparation cycle" when a rider knew he was over the top, the rider would cynically miss a test. These guys are informed beyond any who have gone before.
The Hayles' infraction of the 50% trip and reaction to it, told anyone, who was awake, all they needed to know. Here was a rider with a professional wrestler as a dad who, in his young senior years, rode the 6 day scene. How many sack-fulls of reality do you need to suspend, to not think the guy found out exactly how to juice during that time in the late 90's? So Brailsford spins the tale about being in the car on the morning the news breaks, when Hayles calls his wife and she asks him - "darling - tell me you never doped, tell me the truth now - I will be sooo upset if you tell me any nasty drugs have ever crossed your mouth - I married my hero - I believe in you, tell me it ain't so !"
Hayles has grown up in a home where the breadwinner has been part of a Saturday afternoon, prime time TV con, perpetrated every week, for years, in front of millions. This was simply more pap spun from Sir David for the dumbar*es who want escape reality by having a man-crush on their heroes.
No, right now even if, on a solid gold salver, the dream test arrived, Cookson could point at all the (totally useless) testing cycling is doing and tell them to take it to another sport. After all isn't Usain Bolt and the Jamaican Fed taking the p**s in a style so big it makes cycling look like a paragon.
At this stage of his life, having politicked his way up a greasy pole and been stood, so many times, in exactly the right place at exactly the right time, when lady luck came to call, the last thing Cookson wants is somebody coming out with something that exposes Sir David, Sir Bradley and the whole pyramid back to Keen and Boardman.
We are in the new "big mig" years. Everyone knows what is being presented to us is a complete farce, but it will be the next generation that get exposed for doing exactly what this generation did. Sir Brad, Sir Dave, Cav and a few others will be well off the scene before then.
As the man says - Cycling sucks in '14 and nothing is going to get fixed any year soon. Watch it if you enjoyed professional wrestling on a Saturday afternoon.
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