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by paganel
4229 days ago
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> This is a great article but I wish it would have also included advancement in area of steroids. My thoughts exactly. I was a great fan of professional cycling when I was a kid (I still follow it, mostly for the scenery nowadays), so much so that as an Miguel Indurain fan I still remember the 8-man chase in the 1996 Tour de France that saw his reign end (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xsXthk4YIo). Each and every one of those 8 athletes from that legendary chase has been proved as being doped sometimes during their career (and most probably they all were doped during that stage). It has not been proved yet, but it's an open secret that Indurain itself might have been a doper, and even Merckx. This ruined professional cycling for me. Two years after that 1996 Tour the Festina scandal started and at least cycling did try to make itself clean. The same cannot be said of football, where it's absolutely incredible how players like Messi and Ronaldo can play 60+ matches per year at such a high level, consistently. By "incredible" I mean "more than human". |
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