Brutal
Don’t exactly agree with this…but entertaining and brutal at the same time…found on the web…
“When a real PRO gets caught doping it’s a tragedy because the guys on the ProTour are heroic just for showing up and the fall of a hero always steals a bit of your heart. The history, terrain, culture, and suffering over there is a million-billion times vaster than the so-called “pro” circuit here in the US, where the 20 guys who get paid enough to train and race full-time spend 90% of their time racing against “pros” with dayjobs and that’s weekend’s crop of local fast bike shop dudes (just look at the start lists of any race other than Philly Week and Tour of California — they’re called Pro, 1, 2 races for a reason.)
If there’s any substantive difference between Tom Zirbel’s DHEA positive and Kenny Williams’, I don’t see it. Both were doping to beat bike shop dudes, and if you’ve gotta dope to do that the joke’s on you. Dirt poor Russians doping to escape a lifetime of sharecropping through real glory and real money on the ProTour? I’ll apologize for them all day long. But college-degreed Americans doping to get top-10 at Dana Point or Joe Martin? These are the dopers who suck. Lifetime bans are unnecessary. Like getting caught whacking off in the high school by your mom: You should be too mortified to ever show your face in public again.”
OH SNAP!
