AN UNWANTED SILVER JUBILEE HANGS over this year’s cycling season. It is 25 years since LANCE ARMSTRONG won the first of his now annulled seven Tours de France, and though he has been expunged from the history books the ramifications of what he did continue to reverberate — for they hit at the heart of how and why we watch not just his sport but all sport.
Do we shrug and accept doping as a necessary evil? Do we go the other way and denounce any sport with a doping problem as one without