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Old 09-20-2019, 03:17 PM
benb benb is offline
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Originally Posted by FlashUNC View Post
The sport has never been clean. Ever. Tough to see how that changes when you ask guys to ride as fast as humanly possible over 2,500-ish miles in a three week period with two rest days.
And yet the grand tours were actually harder in the days before these high test drugs were invented.

Aspirin, tobacco, and wine were not the same kind of doping as EPO and blood transfusions and T patches & steroids.

Heck those guys had to fix their own bikes too!
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