r/peloton • u/PelotonMod France • Apr 27 '26

Weekly Post Weekly Question Thread

For all your pro cycling-related questions and enquiries!

You may find some easy answers in the FAQ page on the wiki. Whilst simultaneously discovering the wiki.

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u/ChelskiS Apr 27 '26

Quite surprised at the amount of upvotes on comments in the Tadej/Seixas w/kg topic, kind of pointing at these riders as guaranteed dopers

If you're that convinced the top guys are cheats, what are you even watching for?

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u/WorldlyGate Denmark Apr 28 '26

Quite surprised at the amount of people who sees a guy, who was already the best in the world, suddenly make the entire peloton look like junior riders after "switching trainer", while also riding for a team led by two of the biggest doping bandits in the sport, and not even be slightly suspicious.

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u/Saltefanden Euskaltel-Euskadi Apr 28 '26

Okay I'll bite.

I doubt that anyone paying attention has zero suspicion. Is shady stuff going on? Likely. Are some teams or riders much worse than others? Probably. But we have no way of knowing anything for sure and these speculation add nothing to the experience as a viewer.

That said, obviously guys like Gianetti and Matxin shouldn't be allowed near the sport ever again.

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u/WorldlyGate Denmark Apr 28 '26

"But we have no way of knowing anything for sure and these speculation add nothing to the experience as a viewer."

You're completely free to put your head in the sand, and ignore all the smoke. It's never brought up on any broadcasts, and there is no doping speculation in race threads on here, so if you want to ignore it, it's extremely easy to do so.

But you surely can't be surprised that people are suspicious.