We are watching a strange era of cycling. It seems like at this point almost weekly there is a new 21 to 22 year old looking like a gt winner. We can of course look at all those cases in isolation, can argue about whether they are suspicious or not and how out of nowhere they really came. But at some point we might as well ask if there is more to it. What on earth is going on? How has it happened that we find a 22 year old Portuguese entering the third week of a gt as the leader hardly worth mentioning because there are so many riders in his age bracket that look just as good. How can it happen that the expectations for riders at certain age has changed so much within a year?
It's weird. I don't have any answers and arguably some potential answers don't actually involve doping. Still I feel like it's useless to even ask these questions in a different subforum so yeah, what are your thoughts?
It's weird. I don't have any answers and arguably some potential answers don't actually involve doping. Still I feel like it's useless to even ask these questions in a different subforum so yeah, what are your thoughts?