Deagol said:Hmm, I think you might be thinking of the Breckenridge 100 instead of the Leadville 100 where a sanctioned doper just won the event. Alban Lakata of Austria won Leadville this year, and to my knowledge, there are no sanctions against him. It was Michael Weiss (also from Austria) who won the Breckenridge 100 this summer while under a 2-year doping sanction.
Pretty lame.
I think 2009 was the last year a known doper won at Leadville, but there is a possibility that 2010 was also won by a slightly less known doper. The race management at Leadville has been either embarrassingly naive or willfully ignorant about their 2009 & 2010 winners and have too much hype invested in them.
The PB100 is building quite a record. Armstrong, Leipheimer, Allah Akbar. Throw Landis' and Armstrong's seconds in there as well. Fifty-fifty chance the race is won by a doper.