My understanding of his team and its stance was never based on JV having raced clean himself. More that rather than pretending it doesn’t happen and no one has ever done it, fess up, privately within the team to team management and you can ride for the team. Pretty sure that’s why Thomas Dekker rode for them for bit, but he had had enough of cycling by then.
I see it in contrast to other teams who talk about everyone being 100% clean and then hiring riders, former riders and doctors from notoriously dirty teams.
He states that the team was designed so people didn’t have to dope, and weren’t pressured to do so. This reflected his own career, where he felt forced.
If you buy that or not is a different point.
Definitely agree that he’s odd. Think he’s also been diagnosed with adult ADHD.
I have it on Kindle but not got around to it. Think i overdone the cycling books when everyone came out with their “it was lances fault” books
Thomas Dekker is unbeatable also in that genre so couldnt follow it with any more of the same for a while.
He was meant to be “the next big thing”
But he comes across as a petulant teenager who feels like the world owes him something.
Like he “knows” he’s “special” and that everything should just be served up to him.
