But there’s a wave of younger riders who are more outspoken about the problem than any of their predecessors. And, to their credit, they do not seem to hold the veteran racers beyond reproach. Its great to see 24-year-old riders talking candidly about the damage Alexandre Vinokourov, Michael Rasmussen, and their blood-boosting cohorts have replica Omega 4644.30.32 watch done to the sport. The young guard of the sport even staged a protest during a late stage of the Tour, stopping in the middle of the road and forcing the veterans—including soon-to-be-fired yellow jersey Rasmussen—to ride around them.
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A few teams have begun instituting internal doping controls that are nearly impossible for their riders to evade, the UCI and WADA are catching more cheats than ever before, and Rasmussen didn’t fail any tests at all. He was kicked replica Omega 2900.51.82 watch out of the Tour and fired by his team—while wearing the yellow jersey!—simply because people didn’t trust him. That is unprecedented in sport. Any sport. Imagine a zero-tolerance policy like that in baseball. If the Majors banned players they didn’t trust.
