stevej wrote:
sammydog1 wrote:
Shouldn’t we all be looking at ourselves also. We’re the ones that have made this fertile ground for dopers. Guys like this and a lot of the other busted athletes seem to all gravitate to coaching. They’re using their doped up results to draw clients. We fall for it every time. Wow!’ Look how fast he is. I’m sure he must know what he doing with those results. Then said doper has to keep improving those results to sustain his/her business and continue stroke their own ego.
And if this guy was doped to the gills, what’s it say about the others he’s racing against?Please continue......
Naivety isn't helpful when talking about doping. It's bad to say "those specific folks, by name, must be doping" , but it's not the same as saying "there are bound to be other dopers within the top tiers".
When you have amateurs also getting caught in sports, with both dope and motors, it's apparent that it is pretty widespread.
I mean shoot, you have a documentary on Netflix now about kids in college "doping" on adderal to be able to do better in school.
Another example, IMHO, there's no advantage to hiding your power for someone like a worldtour rider. Meters vary, people weigh different, etc...ad nauseum. So all the time when I see mysterious drops in usage of power from folks, it raises questions, for example. There's only so many watts per week you can gain. Jumping a bunch a few weeks right before and during a race would raise some eyebrows.
I'm interested in was it WADA the other day claimed they were starting an AI database program to trend people for more proactive testing? That sounds like a good thing.
You can't assume that the specific guy next to you is doing it, but you can't be naive and assume an entire sport is "clean".