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Old 07-05-21, 11:45 PM
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I'd like to believe Pogacar is racing clean. But after reading that extensive interview Floyd Landis gave about 10 years ago, in which he explains how the pressure to dope is so overwhelming -- backed up by knowing and seeing almost everyone else is doing it and even joking about it -- that it was either dope or quit racing... it's easy to see how most pros could justify it to themselves and to the public. From their perspective it would seem utterly futile to race clean. Which is precisely what Jacques Anquetil said decades ago.
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