Originally Posted by
topflightpro
Doping in cycling has been going on for as long as the Tour has been around. It started with things like caffeine pills and other stimulants and moved on from there.
But a lot of that stuff they used to dope with is now considered legal. But it's still doping. The line between what is legal doping and illegal doping, in many cases, seems rather arbitrary.
Agreed. Most significant was the death of Tom Simpson in the Tour in 1967 of heart failure and amphetamines.
Yet nothing changed; cheating was quietly tolerated.