Yeah but it gets better because if we assume that all Continental tour riders as also doping we get a natural reordering. Frankly I don't hold with this idea that some riders are good and some bad. I think what separates them is the fact that they are either less focussed and determined than others and less willing to take the risks. That said given an even playing field the likelihood is that they'd still be beaten simply because of the lack of detemrination and willingness to take risks.
If you've got two guys of equal athletic ability, equal tactical ability, equal access to top equipment and coaching and one of them is a psycho whos prepared to die to win and who wont give up for anything. The one whos prepared to die to win and who can focus to transcend all else will win. I have a partial belief that this tends to manifest itself in a willingness to do anything to win including take drugs.
Finally if one can't separate the good from the bad apart form saying hey you performed badly so you must be clean oh you won so you must be dirty we're wasting time. Either the tests, the process and the adminstration is of sufficient quality to fairly test and trap cheaters or its not. Right now its not. Until that happens dopers will continue to compete and we might as well stop whingeing about it. We all know that a guy on juice will out perform a guy who isn't.
A dragster using regular unleaded will be beaten by a alcohol fuelled dragster...
Can't we switch to trying to argue about ways of trapping the cheats a little better than they're being trapped now rather than casting aspersions on riders who lets face it for the most part none of us know are doping or not. The one thing we do know is we can't beleive them when they say they're clean.