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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nopantsyet" data-source="post: 988060" data-attributes="member: 3109">As a lover of cycling, and one who finds it this time of year bittersweet, being now unable to participate in my favorite athletic activity, I've got to express strong resistance to the arguments I've heard time and time by would-be detractors from cycling. The drug problem is really a nationalism-meets-sour-grapes problem.  Drug allegations are casually bandied about every time some country thinks it's prized cyclist/team should have won a given race, and are more often disproven than proven.  Cycling has more extensive drug testing than most other sports, and it has more severe penalties than most as well.  If we opposed everything that was founded by someone with reproachable morals, we would be left with contemplating the universe beneath a bodhi tree.  Not to mention we would all be morally required to turn in uprising against our own nations, boycott nearly all commercial interests, and subject ourselves to ascetic self-punishment.I don't see that as a bad thing.  This is an athletic event, not an engineering competition.  Besides, we really don't need to see these guys going even faster--there's plenty of injury at current speeds. Personally, I think that their position is good for cycling because it promotes cycling over cycles.  They don't categorically eschew all innovations; but they are very conservative and consciencious about preserving the sport as an athletic competition rather than letting it degenerate into another "richest-man-wins" schtick.All that said, "Go Lance!!!!"</blockquote>

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