cc wrote:
Re Mark French et al, I find it hard to believe they
would leave vials of whaever lying around or have

Can you believe there is a culture of self-injection?

Its the whole modern win-at-all-costs sports culture that
is to blame. Its the huge money from endorsements, the pressure,
the government spending mega-bucks to effectively buy olympic
gold medals. The olympic spirit is long dead. Of course they
_all_ take drugs. Its just a question of whether an individual
sticks to permitted "supplements", or uses known banned drugs.
At least in the TdF, they don't pretend to be amateurs.