trail wrote:
7ofClubs wrote:
I would like to see every AG in the top ten have to submit a test. Add a choice on the entry form, Do you want to qualify for Kona? If yes, You are required to test pre/post race. Add 50 bucks to the entry fee for those that do, at $600+ does it really matter? Will it get rid of all of it? No, but I think it would help.I like a little randomness and uncertainty in every stage. If you make things predictable, then you set a nice easy goalpost to defeat the system.
For example maybe one year they do most of the testing upon registration onsite. Then the next year they use all their money to do random out-of-competition testing, showing up at the doors of some qualifiers a few weeks prior to Kona.
I really like this idea and for once I would totally agree with an extra fee. This testing fee should work in a way that everyone knows that they will be tested no matter what, only not sure when. Let's say som people don't pay it, no problem: there's a huge line of honest and clean athletes that would gladly pay it if it means that they take a slot and the field is even. I would also like to see far more AG testing at all IM races, they are making piles of cash anyways.