Wigan Peer wrote:
I woud staggered too, but if you have been following sport a while, you will know that suggestions and proof of foul play in cycling is longstanding and well documented.
There's never been a time when cycling was clean. Wiggins has his doubters now. He probably has a few more after the way he responded to indirect hints from a journalist the other day. When Sky started they were banging all kinds of drums about proving someone could win a tour clean. They don't bang that drum quite as hard as they used to and they have a tainted doctor on board now. Are they still a clean team? I think so. I think Wiggins probably is too given his own past outbursts against team mates and the teams he has since been on (Garmin were and still are fantically anti-drug too).
It's right to doubt though, and it's up to him to learn to deal with those doubts. As a student of the sport's history he knows as well as anyone just how many disappointments there have been. There are whole swathes of past winners no longer entitled to call themselves winners of the tour.
At least they don't rub cocaine into their eyeballs anymore. They just have their blood replaced twice a day now.
