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...doping. Yet the damage to his reputation, and that of the sport, may already have been done. "When you work so hard in the race and you manage to bring back the excitement of the sport to the people, it's sad [for this to happen]",says Jos? Miguel Ech?varri, director of Pereiro's Caisse D'Epargne team. "If the victory comes to us, it will not be the kind of win we wanted." Pereiro, who describes himself as a friend of Landis, has said that he would prefer that he remain second and Landis' drug test not be confirmed...
...There is a lot of hypocrisy in all this", says Ech?varri. "It seems like the only problem here is that cycling is the scapegoat for a perfect [sports] world." But the Landis affair may redouble the call for reform, not just in cycling but in all of sports. "Let's focus on the young generations," says Echavarri. "Let's be tough, but educating. Punishing is easy, but let's analyze the roots of what's happening. Even though right now cycling doesn't have much moral power to demand anything, it's still worth...
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