I don't blog often - I prefer Twitter, but news overnight and my reaction don't adequately fit inside 140 charcters.
Well, we've reached the end of another Tour de France, the 100th edition, and NOT, as Phil & Paul would have you believe, the Centenary edition (that was in 2003). It was a great edition with #LOLBus #FlyingDinghy #JerseyVaches #musettedutour and the #TourDeAshes There was even some racing. Oh, and of course, a doping scandal.
So far no positives have been announced from this year - this is good. What has got the cycling world in a tis are the outcomes of a French Senate enquiry on the 1998 TDF. After last year's USADA findings, and the outrage over Lance and his Merry Men, you would think that any rider that had any skeletons in their doping closet would fess up. Sadly for Australian cycling fans, this was not the case, and overnight Stuart O'Grady has come out and admitted to taking EPO in the lead-up to the '98 Tour. This comes just a day after he announced his immediate retirement (he previously announced he would ride next year for a record 18th Tour).
Stuey took out a stage, and became the 2nd Aussie to wear Yellow that year, but at what cost? His admission is another kick in the guts to a sport that has constantly struggled with it's past. I don't like The TanMan, but in one of his blogs last year post USADA he asked any Australian riders to confess now, or lose his respect forever should anything come out....I wonder how he feels about Stuey now?
I plead to any other riders that took performance enhancing drugs to Hoogerland up and reveal what you have done.
ButteredFrog
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