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Chris Froome; Doping?

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LukeTom:
After Froome's second win of the Tour de France, there have been many people saying he is doping. What do you guys think? Just natural ability? Or something suspicious going on?

Dr. Steve Brule:
What in the tour stands out as him doping? Quintana was quicker up Alpe dhuez, and only finished a minute behind overall, is he doping too? Valverde finished third, does that make Movistar a dirty team?

Doping is a problem in all sports, especially cycling but I honestly feel the top boys nowadays are clean. I think there's just too much to lose after all the doping of the past 20 odd years.

Interesting link below, would someone doped to the gills only be at 77?
http://www.climbing-records.com/2015/07/three-riders-make-it-into-alpe-dhuez.html?m=1

medusa.cascade:
I remember reading an article a few years ago, is discussed who should of had lance's title in his last tour or something. Turns out you had to get to the eight dude before getting to someone who has never been associated with doping.

Crazy.

Dr. Steve Brule:
Yeah cycling was the wild west for a good few years, you still get a few guys popped every now and then but it's generally young dudes on eastern European teams, not been any big names popped for a while and hopefully there won't be. I'm probably being naive though.

torontoflatlander:
I really hope not. The problem is as soon as anyone employs a decent strategy for keeping the yellow jersey for as long as Froome did, they have to be accused of doping in some way, shape, or form. It's piss poor journalism to just criticize the entire race under the pretenses that anyone with any talent must be on something. The grand tours haven't been enjoyable to watch or read about for a number of years because of all the gossip surrounding the guys in the top 10 positions. Do I think anything is going on? Who the fuck knows, until they get UCI/WADA personnel to watch the top 10gc riders 24/7 for the 3 weeks of the tour, there won't be anyone who's satisfied with any scientific results that come from all the testing that's being done during the tours.

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