Astana and Sky are ridiculously good. They go to the front of the peloton and start putting out the power, and the other teams are shattered. One by one the dom

Astana and Sky are ridiculously good. They go to the front of the peloton and start putting out the power, and the other teams are shattered. One by one the domestiques drop off like flies until the leaders from the other teams are isolated. Astana have had a series of embarrassing drug busts, and were supposed to be dropped from World Tour status as punishment, but they bought their way back in. Sky alone manages to remain untainted by drug busts. Presumably, their “incremental gains” are as good as everyone else’s nighttime EPO micro-dosing out of pig’s bladders.