[svandamme]

it's probably a big mouth statement, i doubt the team association will pull a trick like that, if they do , they'll simply be counter sued for setting the expectations to high within the team, and indirectly pushing the cyclists into a position where they have no other choice but to dope...

realistically , that's not so difficult to proove, since most team managers will have the contracts written with deliveries

- racing in all the big races
- racing in all a set number of smaller races
- minimum performance

i doubt it would be difficult to get real physicians (not sport cooks) to testify that the bar is simply set to high for any normal human beeing

at least, that's how i would do it... but then again, i've been known to make sure that if i go down, i go down in flames...
and i've also been accused of having a wild imagination... oh well