Originally Posted by jpwkeeper .
The thing that always bothered me about Greg was that, with every truly amazing one day performance in cycling I've ever seen, doping has come to light.
Landis: 1 day solo breakaway. Tested positive for Testosterone.
Hamilton: 1 day solo breakaway. Blood Doping
Pantani: His time up Huez, which he did at the end of a stage, stood pretty much forever and might still stand (I thought one guy beat it, can't remember). I do remember that Lance could not beat the time, juiced as he was, in a time trial (he missed it by 1 second). Pantani wasn't ever caught, but his tragic end kind of speaks for itself.
So in 1993, LeMond comes out of nowhere, back from a hunting accident, and takes 58 seconds out of the best time trialist in the world on a 25Km course? OK, he used aerobars and an aero helmet, that makes sense. However, his average speed has only been bested twice since then, once in a prologue in 94 and once by Zabriskie in 2005 in another time trial, at a time where Z was an admitted doper. It's suspicious.
And before you call me out for basing suspicion on a performance, recall that Greg has recently done exactly that against Contador, so it's his own precedent being followed.