Paul Sherwen Interview

Over at PezCycling News, they have a great interview with Paul Sherwen on the Floyd Landis situation and the doping scandals in general.  Paul has a good idea on reforming the doping culture in cycling, which he attributes to Jens Voigt:

A person for whom I have great respect is the riders representative, Jens Voigt (CSC) and his attitude is that there should be more and more tests. Not just to catch wrong-doers, but to establish patterns of what a rider’s normal values are. Along the lines of the French tests; so that if something is different or has been tampered-with then there are a whole series of reference points to compare with.

This makes so much sense, I doubt that it would ever be implemented.  The pro cyclists already have many strictures on their schedules to accomodate the random testing, so adding these baseline tests might not be that much more of an imposition.  What lends weight to the proposal is that it is the riders representative, the equivalent of a player's union rep, advocating the change.  Read the whole interview for Paul is as entertaining and wise as ever.

Thanks to Cyclocosm for the link.