Many reasons - all of which could be dismissed by someone cynical enough - but in the end there's just too much money riding on it and interest in it. And the money is riding on the whiteness of the team, rather than the success. Sky don't just sponsor Team Sky Procycling, but all the representative British riders in road and track. Brailsford has had to make it clean from the ground up with a background of knowing that everyone eventually gets found out. Can you imagine the legal reassurances and penalties agreed by the sponsor should Sky ever get caught playing dirty?

I'd take issue with "everyone is doping" and I don't for a moment believe that you really think that. It seems that of the cases happening now it's individuals rather than teams that are the bad guys. But you're right to use the word "confident". That's the most one can be at the moment, especially from the distance most of us sit from the main players or the entire sport.

But the unlikelihood - even if the entire sport is rotten - comes from the fact that Team Sky are unlike any other team at the moment. At least six of that team could be considered No. 1s and would be if they moved. Wiggins, Froome, Porte, Rogers, Cav even Eddie B-H could be a team leader elsewhere, depending on what the team objectives were. That's unprecedented. They train like robots and research like robots in order to ride like robots, with enough flair left to keep control on the big (and few in this tour) mano-e-mano final climbs. It's akin to when Delgado had Indurain as a wingman, but to the power of three. I'm keeping the faith that I'm right and your suspicions are not.

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