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The TDF organizers have not awarded winners from the Armstrong area due to recognition that doping was widespread. That’s a documented fact and not speculation

• Lio 9y ago
  Yes I quite agree with you but that wasn't my point. To clarify, there there were many dopers but there were definitely _some_ clean riders during the Armstrong years. They haven't re-awarded Yellow Jerseys for those years because they can't properly identify who was clean and who wasn't. That's not the same thing as saying that all riders were dirty. Even if it's just one lowly domesticate right at the back. To suggest that every single rider on every single team was doping and that that somehow made the playing field level is just incorrect. We have the testimony of convicted dopers who say that at least some others riders were clean to back that up. They were aware of the difficulties and stress that they were putting on the clean riders.