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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I will add this as a corollary, why bother cleaning up cycling?
What is the point of taking a sport that has always used drugs, I can see the arguement for hockey or Baseball, they were clean and the encroaching drug use has been individual and piecemeal, therefore unfair, but in cycling the drug use has been universal and used on a team level, therefore it can't be considered an uneven playing field.
Personally I prefer drugged cycling, the inhuman performances, Sean Kelly riding a 1000 miles with a broken collarbone etc, what we think of as the tour de france is a product of drug use, without drugs no one would think to ask riders to climb 3 or 4 catagory climbs a day ending at alp de huez or Ventoux
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Why clean up cycling? Say you were a young promising cyclist and the only way to get into the top echelon would be to take drugs. Would you like to risk your health and morals to do this? I'd say some wouldn't, so a possible great athlete sees his career go down the tubes while those who do spend the rest of their life hiding their acts and paying for it with their health. A crappy outcome for all concerned.