Boonen. Winning Roubaix then snorting coke off a hooker's ass is bringing it.

Jan Ullrich......always showed up overweight at the tour, attacked and had tons of power. I was always hoping he would beat lance because at the time I knew lance must have been doping and didn't think Jan was. I always knew lance doped. Could it have been more obvious people?

Sven Nys is BOSS.

As far as actual racing, I like Contador.
As far as personality I have a soft spot for Floyd.

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Bjarne Riis. Anyone who acquires the nickname "Mr. 60%" is pure gold.

X2. My age group, too. Ran me down at St. Croix and crowed about it.

Jan's first doping offence IIRC was for recreational coke use, he was hammered and high on coke and crashed his porsche int a bike rack….full of bikes.

Maurice

Flojo
Her 100 record will stand until they dump all anti doping rules and make it open slather.
2nd place has to go to usain - when something seems to good to be true, it usually is. Like flojo, he's so far in front of second he just seems to good to be true!

Although Stybar races road, he is not a "top roadie" he has by far better CX palmares.
That's my point, Stybar objectively is a little better than George Hincapie on the road and he is a 2 time CX world champion.
There are easily 30-40 roadies who are better than him, so arguably would be capable of winning a CX world championship.
The only reason I can come can come up with that they aren't doing it is that skills are more important than you think. Why do
you see so few people that race both?

Hey, why no love for Carl Lewis? He was a way better doper than Ben Johnson?

I've been Moving in Stereo ever since....

Vinokourov hands down the best.
He had the killer instinct and the dope put him over the top for some of the most opportunistic wins I have ever seen.
His win on the Champs Elysees has to be one of the all time classic victories in cycling.

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LOL...how did a leave Carl out of the posse....I was so focused on making sure that I did not include Calvin Smith and Robson Da Silva that I painted Carl with the "clean" brush....oh the shame.

As for the cyclists, I think Vino had the perfect swagger to go with the dope...and the London Olympic gold was like, "Hey, you put me in the penalty box, I did my time and I took the gold from under the nose of the Queen". That was almost like Stalin coming through Trafalgar square and taking the crown off the Queen's head shortly after her coronation. too bad for Cavendish and crew, but Vino on the Mall was one of the ages. Vino must have been the most love-able rider on the bike that is hate-able off the bike! But hey, we don't really pay to watch what they do off the bike :-(. At least the sponsors don't think so.

Soon going to be time to tune Djokovic vs,. Murray in the Aussie Open finals....I THINK I am watching two clean players.

Leave it to Beaver, er in this case Bryden (the younger) to take the high road, Rob (the elder) would be proud. BTW: you are bad ass as well, as any kid would be doing tempo runs at 11 PM in Airdrie!

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 Flo Jo is in the conversation for the greatest athlete of all time. The only proof that anyone has ever had against her was she was too good.

I think her premature death and her incredible improvement leading into '88 provide a lot of proof.
Plus, those outfits she wore, you would have to be smoking something;)

Lance Armstrong and Miguel Indurain!!

one ball lance is still my favorite

Actually it was for ecstasy and he was not racing at the time; he was recovering from knee issues. Instead of racing the Tour he apparently spent his time clubbing. The DUI and crash happened at another time.

He never showed up overweight at the Tour.

Evidence, not proof. And not direct evidence.

And she had a congenital brain abnormality that made per pre-disposed to epileptic seizures. Which was determined to be the cause of death. So her death seems to be a pretty weak link to doping.

She was "too good" in 1988, though. Same with Michael Johnson in '96. But about all we have to go on is that some of their competitors were definitely doping and they still dominated. That's been a pretty good predictor of doping so far. But eventually we'll get one wrong. And that'd be a shame.

I like Contador and Valverde. Both Spanish pros at doping, and also amazingly great bike racers that are entertaining to watch.

Greg Lemond as he was never caught and got out before he did!

C'mon serious? What's the matter with you--? He said HE DIDN'T INHALE!

Mine's a Spanish triathlete