Today I was riding with a buddy (Mike Wozniak) and somehow we got on the all too popular subject of doping in cycling.  He was telling me about some new website where they drag a bunch of names through the dirt about doping.  Let me just say that I believe it is morally wrong to dope and I am against it in any form, but it seems to be turning into a witch hunt.  I told Mike that all too often I have seen websites like this, often put together by U.S. pros that maybe felt it wasn’t fare that someone else was better than them.  All too often that is the first excuse that a rider will use when they get beat by someone “oh well he must be on something”.  Yesterday at the start line of the last Tulsa Tough race riders were discussing how well Brad did at CSC, and an ex Jr. National champion whose name I won’t say said something like “oh and he’s clean” in a very sarcastic tone.  I was right behind him and said “hey just because someone is better that you doesn’t mean they dope”, come to find out, he had just said that to say it.  He quickly apologized for accusing someone that he had no reason to believe was doping other than the fact that Brad is riding well.  Brad has heart and digs deep in races and that has a HUGE performance enhancing benefit.  Just because someone is fast doesn’t mean they take drugs.  In fact, when I was in Spain this year there was a rider who we were laughing at because he obviously had taken some sort of injection (we could see a round band-aid through his yellow shorts) in a race with no control.  He got dropped pretty fast too. So yes it’s obvious there is doping in cycling like most sports, but just because someone is fast doesn’t mean you can accuse them of taking drugs, there are a million different ways to improve without taking drugs.