Internal Mono(b)log

You know, I’ve really wanted to believe that Lance didn’t dope, but realistically, esp in Pro-cycling, even today, doping has been and continues to be rampant.

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If anything, Lance was historically just better at not getting caught.  Ok fine.  They all doped (or most did), but doping doesn’t make an average guy into a super-star.  It does eek out some more performance in the already elite athletes.

Ok fine.  Lets move on.  What happened a decade or more ago has nothing to do with anything anymore.  Put an asterisk beside Lance’s name for those Tours and be done with it.

Now then.  Lets now, work at getting sport today clean.  Randomly spot check all pros without warning.  Test the top 5 male and female pros and age-groupers in all age groups, and then randomly test 10% of the remaining field.

Want drug testing to be a deterrent then make testing real.

Also, lets just generally shut-up about drugs in sport.  Would I know about blood doping, EPO, steroids, etc. if the media wasn’t talking in detail about these substances?  No, I wouldn’t.  I can’t help but think that if performance enhancing substances weren’t talked about so widely there’d be much less of it in amateur sport.  I’m not no naive to think it wouldn’t exist, but I can’t help but think it’d be much less common.