Title for a book that's not been written but would love to read.
A study of cycling from mid eighties to mid nineties detailing who were the people who through their actions took cycling down a route which meant that it was impossible to win clean. The doctors/scientists who used cycling and riders as their personal experiments, the riders that were willing to be used in order to win, the enablers and managers who supported or encouraged and the journalists and administrators who stayed silent so that evil could flourish..you could also add the pharmaceutical companies that allowed their products to be used in such a way.
If I wanted a memorable moment to represent the moment cycling died it would be Lemond being dropped in the 91 tour. Of course I am making certain assumptions with that statement and could very well be wrong.
The information is becoming more available as various protagonists become increasingly willing to talk (or exposed) . I think the time is right for someone to take up the challenge of following the leads, digging deeper and gathering the strands together to produce a coherent, logical and compelling narrative that details the single most important era of the sport. In doing so they would attempt to quantify the guilt of the men who were most responsible for the death of cycling as a true sport and its birth as pharmacological warfare.
Anyone fancy it?
If not, anyone like to give their thoughts in case a suitable writer stumbles across this thread?
A study of cycling from mid eighties to mid nineties detailing who were the people who through their actions took cycling down a route which meant that it was impossible to win clean. The doctors/scientists who used cycling and riders as their personal experiments, the riders that were willing to be used in order to win, the enablers and managers who supported or encouraged and the journalists and administrators who stayed silent so that evil could flourish..you could also add the pharmaceutical companies that allowed their products to be used in such a way.
If I wanted a memorable moment to represent the moment cycling died it would be Lemond being dropped in the 91 tour. Of course I am making certain assumptions with that statement and could very well be wrong.
The information is becoming more available as various protagonists become increasingly willing to talk (or exposed) . I think the time is right for someone to take up the challenge of following the leads, digging deeper and gathering the strands together to produce a coherent, logical and compelling narrative that details the single most important era of the sport. In doing so they would attempt to quantify the guilt of the men who were most responsible for the death of cycling as a true sport and its birth as pharmacological warfare.
Anyone fancy it?
If not, anyone like to give their thoughts in case a suitable writer stumbles across this thread?
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