What will it take?

So Englishman Chris Froome of team Sky has won the Tour de France. Last year it was Englishman Bradley Wiggins of team Sky.

Since I started following the Tour back in the Indurain years it seems it has only been won by liars, cheaters, and dopers. Out of the twenty or so winner in the past two decades it would seem none of them were good enough to win clean. But now we're told that it's all changed - again. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Team Sky is sponsored by the same man who's employees habitually hacked the phones and email accounts of the rich and newsworthy. When they finally stooped to hacking the phone of a young murder victim he got the message and shut down that cesspit of the newspaper called 'News of the World'. But the same sleazy journalism persists throughout his media empire. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

So we're supposed to believe that Rupert Murdoch has saved professional cycling and his team is suddenly dominating the Tour de France clean. Right.

I don't know what it will take to get me to believe the peleton is clean. More competition, less domination, more movement of the jerseys. More involvement from the UCI (or better still, a brand new governing body). It certainly isn't Murdoch.