It's something that I certainly don't fond myself pondering too often when riding up it, but Mt Coot-tha (at the risk of sounding like a complete nitwit) has been around a long time. Probably about as long as Australia has been around. Poignant, I know.
I found this cool picture of the Mt Coot-tha classic while trawling the web during my many hours of boredom at work:
And something a little less tasteful, but a good reminder not to do drugs anyway:
Who knows what to do with this wave of expelled road cyclists that have finished their suspension and are supposed are coming back to racing 'clean'? I am not sure that it really gives potential and existing (un-outsed) cheats the right idea. Two years, after all, isn't a very long time.
But I mean, who needs drug-related controversy in the peloton, when you have these two:
