Truth and Reconciliation. That's the process advocated by many in the cycling world as a means of putting the doping days behind and 'moving on'. I'm not 100% convinced about this, I mean, I fail to see how it would actually work without having direct affect on those 'confessing'. We have just seen a high profile Australian 'coming out' on doping 3 days after he retired, which was conveniently timed. Tyler Hamilton, the US ex-doper only confessed when he had to so its going to take a very special person to be the one to stand up if he's already in a current contract. Its a job and livelihood to most people, so unless there are cast iron guarantees that they will not lose existing income, contracts etc. then we can only expect those retiring and nothing to lose that will be confessing all. When we have teams like Sky with a zero tolerance policy (otherwise they get sacked) then we can assume that no-one in their team would confess to anything remotely associated with doping. Also, I can't help but note that the most vocal people pressing for this truth and reconciliation stuff are those that have already confessed and/or been found out. I am not expecting much in the way of action any time soon.
On my own (drug free) cycling, I got out with son-on-law number 2 yesterday for a few miles, taking in a visit to the grandchildren taking part in a ridden fancy dress followed by calling into my mother's to finish off an extension cable job I should have done about 6 months ago.
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