Spartacus sure did hit the afterburners, didn't he. Electric or natural? Only he and his wrench knows...
I was going to post the below earlier, but decided to mull it over. What the hell...let it rip!
Cheating in cycling? Say it ain't so!
Baseball...spitballs, rosin, cut balls, steroids & PED's, corked bats...
Football...PED's, deflated balls, deliberate injurious play...
Soccer...crooked refs, crooked organizers and crooked players, PED's...
Shooting sports and golf...beta blockers...
Auto racing...you name it...
Track & Field...bwahahahaha! Can't stop laughing...
Body building & Weight Lifting...still laughing...
Do I really need to go on? I certainly can. Cheating is human nature. Show me a level playing field and I'll show you a field full of blissfully ignorant morons. There has always been and always will be cheats and those that, whether a step ahead or two steps behind or on the take for a quick buck, will try to bust the cheats. Sometimes they are slowed down for a while, but rarely stopped for long.
And it's all a stupid soap opera anyway. And even the bad publicity keeps the rinky dink sport of cycling in the news for another day. And gives a bunch of crooked guys reason to demand ever more money to 'fix' what's broken and write even more rules into an already overly thick bible full of babel.
We need not concern ourselves with cheating in cycling. The homeless guy, Cookson, he's gonna clean up da house! he said so. Take that to the bank.
He is.