devashish_paul wrote:
Other than that, pick6 can carry on with his LA obsession. I agree, the the real culprits are team management, pressurizing young boys into a doping culture. Just a few days ago we were talking about Brett Sutton staying away from teenage athletes.....I'd like to see many of these guys off limits from young riders so that young guys like the LA in the late 80's and early 90's are not introduced to cycling with doping being a basic aspect like air in the tires and water in the bottles. Is LA to blame of having this mindset, or is there an entire generation of management that not only pushed it at Subaru Montgomery, but at Reynolds, Banesto, Panasonic,Kelme, Telekom, CSC, Mapei, Klas, and so on.
Sure, LA was the king of his generation but a bigger step now that he is down to get at this entire layer of management who had a very strong incentive to dope to win. As you said, riders are/were/will always be, a replaceable commodity. Our memories of today's champion gets erased as soon as we have a new champion tomorrow. No doubt, Contador will be back and everyone will forget Wiggins.
LA was the management on his team. I dont have an LA obsession, but as long as we have lance "truthers" defending him like Censored Cyclist, there's going to be little political cover for going after the money men and leaders. The problem is Lance still stands in the way of what happens next. His "admission" his "apology" neither of which delivers what he knows, that USAC and UCI colluded to help him perpetrate a fraud, and that both are equally culpable. But until he admits that under oath to USADA or WADA, we get no where. So while I don't disagree this needs to go further, you're not seeing it really can't yet.