Make of it what you will. Avon Wilsmore has recently published a scathing attack on the 13-time World Champion Italian Blue Team (mainly in the 60s), insinuating that their results were largely achieved by nefarious cheating. One of the USA players (incidentally, also the head of the insurance firm SCA Productions that sued Lance Armstrong over contract breach), 10(?)-time World Champion Bob Hamman commented:
Considering that the players on the team were not particularly talented as a group, their success would have been considered by many to be prima facie evidence of cheating, even without the plethora of hands which Wilsmore has so precisely documented. The Blue Team’s success was roughly the equivalent of an eight-man team winning a world class mile relay competition with a team consisting of two world class sprinters (Belladonna & Garozzo), one guy who could make a college relay team (Forquet), and five fat old guys from central casting…