The problem stretches back to the 1880s: doping, doping, doping. Still, there was hope when Team Sky was founded in 2010 that we were entering a new era. This was where general manager, David Brailsford, the clear-eyed, evangelical pitchman, came in. Team Sky would prevail by having space-age bicycles and a fancy team bus. All contravene the spirit that Team Sky was set up to exemplify.

Source: The Guardian March 05, 2017 00:05 UTC