A Passing comment on the Vuelta a España. Best Grand Tour of the year, by a distance. An absolutely mad course, with ten mountain top finishes. Far more compulsive viewing than the Tour De France (not withstanding Wiggins win), and yet...
This really isn’t sour grapes, but, just when cycling seemed to be getting its self-respect back, we have riders who have served drug bans filling two of the three podium spots in Madrid. Hmmm. Unfortunately it seems that in some countries getting caught doping is still seen as little more than an occupational hazard, and too many riders feel they can come back as if nothing has happened, other than being unlucky enough to get caught out.
Which I suppose makes David Millar’s long and loud criticisms of the doping culture he himself succumbed to before coming back to ride clean, all the more commendable. There, it’s not sour grapes, honest.
[Climbs off soapbox and exits stage left]
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