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Stapleton: 'We can't protect these guys from themselves'

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

MARSEILLE, France -- You can test people's blood, but you can't take advance measurements of the quality of their conscience. Scientists have yet to develop a reliable way to predict what choice an athlete will make in a private moment when he is faced with doing the right thing or doing what he thinks everyone else is doing -- still -- to gain a competitive edge. Too bad. Bob Stapleton and other people who have invested themselves in cycling would find that kind of analysis very handy. Stap ...

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