Thursday, July 05, 2007

Cycling and doping

Lance Armstong spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival about doping in cycling. He said something that I have told people for a long time. The reason that cycling has so many doping convictions is because they test the most. Consider for a moment what things would look like if the NFL or MLB actually took doping seriously.
"If you went to Major League Baseball and said, 'We're going to have random, unannounced, out-of-competition controls,' they would tell you, 'You're crazy. No way, we're not playing another game.' The NFL, they would never do that. NHL, no way. Golf, forget it. Tennis, forget it. Of course, cyclists get tested more than anything else, and perhaps that's why they get caught more than anyone else."

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