Yes, the Tour de France is on for young and old again - well, young perhaps - and surprise surprise there are doping scandals left right and centre. What surprises me in return however, especially this last decade when the heat has really been on endurance cyclists, is how they are supposed to be ordinary human beings instead of cycling robots, with perhaps a few drugs in the system, when they cycle about 2000 kilometres in three weeks, up huge mountains, and do it all again the next day and the next day, let alone the training.
Lance Armstrong was a freak occurence, being able to hammer the peleton for seven years straight. And woe betide anyone who raises the spectre of drugs with him.
I am just simply amazed that the cyclists can do what they do, whether they are on drugs or not. If that makes any sort of sense
Lance Armstrong was a freak occurence, being able to hammer the peleton for seven years straight. And woe betide anyone who raises the spectre of drugs with him.
I am just simply amazed that the cyclists can do what they do, whether they are on drugs or not. If that makes any sort of sense
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