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Originally Posted by oilyfan
There has been a concerted effort on the part of the organizers of cycling events to clean them up, drug testing has become more demanding progressively over the last twenty years. Armstrong had to go to extraordinary lengths to hide his doping, what makes you think that this was accepted practice? If it was why wasn't it publicly declared by the UCI that doping was acceptable?
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Cycling has only really tried to clean up in the last 5 or 6 years, prior to the Festina scandel no one gave a crap at all on any level, the riders used freely, occasionally died due to drug use, it was all part of the sport.
The festina scandel essentailly put cycling at odds with the rest of sports, particularly at an olympic level, risked all kinds of goverment grants and support etc not to mention the possibility of the UCI being dropped as a governing body by the olympics, the UCI's initial responce was to put into place a testing system that was easily beaten and on top of that there is a vast amount of evidance that they warned teams of impending tests as well.