On Jul 31, 11:50 am, samson wrote:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/tour07/?
id=/riders/2007/interviews/tour_wiggins_post07

As many others are beginning to say, the Olympic champion also feels
that a disproportionate amount of the pressure is put on riders to be
whiter than white, while teams and their managers don't have the same
concerns. He singles out one particular team for specific criticism: "I
think the team managers have to take responsibility for this as well
because they're willing to pay these guys who are under suspicion and
have been involved in previous years in doping scandals. Ivan Basso,
last year got thrown off the Tour is disgrace - [Discovery Channel's
Johan] Brunyeel this year goes and signs him on a million Euro contract.

"The hypocrisy in that is unbelievable," Wiggins stated. "These guys are
running some of the biggest professional cycling teams in the sport.
What's their motivation within the sport if they are willing to sign
someone who they knew was under investigation of who had been thrown out
of the Tour the previous year. Not every team manager thinks that way
but it seems that there is a minority out there who aren't willing to
play by the rules - including the team managers."

Yep, good idea. Everyone who has even been rumored to have ever, even
known someone who has doped, or been on a team where someone doped
should be unemployable. That means we need a couple hundred new pros,
of course they can't come from any teams with links to pro teams who
have ever been linked to doping, or from teams who have ever had a
rider who was caught doping as a pro, or anyone under suspicion of
doping as an amateur.
Bill C