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Food for thought

This is interesting stuff, however I have to wonder if guys like Tygart are really so naive as to believe that the human condition will change any time soon.


Notes from the Scrum: Cycling’s cultural conundrum


By Matthew Beaudin

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/12/analysis/notes-from-the-scrum-cyclings-cultural-conundrum_269590


Lance was one rider of many, and he was but a cog (however massive) in a machine that tolerated and even encouraged super-human performances. By now, we know that if a rider didn’t dope he was nobody. That’s not a problem one person created but one that came to fruit through the sad circumstances of culture, tolerance and the basic human desire to win. How do we begin to correct that?