As cycling fans, we're surely not in the best position to criticize other sportspeople for not always trying their hardest to win! I mean, bike races often have neutralized stages or sections of stages; there are codes of conduct like not attacking in the food zone; riders in a breakaway often agree how to divide up the prizes on offer (say, that one gets the stage win and the other gets the mountain points); and fixing of minor races used to be commonplace (and maybe still is, I don't know).