[Closed] So where do the Lance revelations ultimately lead us to?

I imagine like most cycling fans, I've been drawn into the almost hourly revelations about Lance, US Postal and the wider peloton with a mix of morbid fascination and resigned disappointment. What I wonder though is where does the road now lead? The latest revelation about the alleged $50k bribe in the USPro champs where Lance won all three races in the series and pocketed $1m (with Phil Anderson being implicated as being party to it) makes me wonder whether this will end up as an Al Capone style prosecution where criminal charges of fraud may arise.

The 5 Live programme this evening was an interesting piece of journalism with the interview with his former soigneur something of an eye opener. If the extent of the doping at Postal was as great as alleged, I wonder who else will now fall. Tom Boonen? Roger Hammond? Were they also part of the alleged ring?

Tyler Hamilton was an interesting interviewee but at no point did he offer to pay back any of the money he earned when using performance enhancing drugs. Like so many of the other former US Postal riders who have admitted to the use of drugs such as George Hincapie, there is no rush to make amends. All can retire to their big houses and drive their luxury cars while telling the fans how they stopped doping many years ago and how much cleaner the peloton is now. Yet there is no offer of recompense to the clean riders who were either driven out of the sport or were deprived of achieving their potential.

The point made on the programme about removing known dopers from involvement in the sport is an interesting one. If we remove the likes of Riis, Vaughters, Virenque etc, will the sport get cleaner or will the temptation to dope continue to be so high given the financial rewards on offer? I sincerely doubt that pro road cycling will ever be a truly clean sport. The Lance years brought some truly memorable spectacle but I now wonder whether the price is one that will end up costing the sport dearly in the long run?

So back to my original question. Where do you think the doping scandal will ultimately lead us?

Cheers

Sanny