Primoz Roglic will become Slovenia's first Tour champion in Paris today barring disaster, giving the country the top two finishers - the other being Tadej Pogacar, which is extraordinary.
Eyebrows will inevitably be raised. This is cycling, after all. How does a country the size of Wales, with a population of only 2-million, suddenly produce the two top riders at the Tour de France?
That is not to say anything is amiss, merely that there is lingering scepticism.
Slovenian cycling has had its share of doping scandals in recent years. Some of its riders were caught up in Operation Aderlass, the recent Austrian doping probe.
Doubters may be tempted to point to the six-month Covid lockdown when out-of-competition testing was patchy.
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