"Testing, we will never do enough of it"
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"Testing, we will never do enough of it" lands like a challenge and a confession, and it only really makes sense coming from Greg LeMond: the clean hero of an era that taught cycling fans to doubt every miracle. On the surface, it reads as a straightforward pro-integrity stance. Underneath, it’s an indictment of a sport that built its modern mythology on performances so implausible they demanded either science fiction or chemistry.
LeMond’s phrasing matters. The blunt comma splice feels like he’s speaking in the rhythm of the peloton or a post-race scrum, not drafting policy. That informality gives the line credibility: it’s not a committee’s slogan, it’s a veteran’s weary realism. “Never do enough” isn’t a call for perfection; it’s an admission that the incentive structure in elite sport will always outrun enforcement. As testing improves, so do the workarounds. As rules tighten, the culture learns new ways to look away.
Context is the real engine here. LeMond’s own achievements in the late 1980s were retroactively forced to share oxygen with the later, more industrial doping era. His insistence on relentless testing is partly self-defense, partly mourning: a demand for proof in a world where fans were trained to treat greatness as suspect. The line works because it doesn’t romanticize purity. It accepts that trust must be manufactured, continuously, by systems that assume bad faith.
LeMond’s phrasing matters. The blunt comma splice feels like he’s speaking in the rhythm of the peloton or a post-race scrum, not drafting policy. That informality gives the line credibility: it’s not a committee’s slogan, it’s a veteran’s weary realism. “Never do enough” isn’t a call for perfection; it’s an admission that the incentive structure in elite sport will always outrun enforcement. As testing improves, so do the workarounds. As rules tighten, the culture learns new ways to look away.
Context is the real engine here. LeMond’s own achievements in the late 1980s were retroactively forced to share oxygen with the later, more industrial doping era. His insistence on relentless testing is partly self-defense, partly mourning: a demand for proof in a world where fans were trained to treat greatness as suspect. The line works because it doesn’t romanticize purity. It accepts that trust must be manufactured, continuously, by systems that assume bad faith.
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