...as a paid subscriber to Velonews, I was asked to participate in a survey about doping in pro sports.
-- once I finished it, I came away thinking that there's 3 major problems with sports;
politics, money and drugs
When money is introduced, so are "politics"-- and the lawyers, the doctors and middle managers that define the political agenda, all with their nose buried firmly at the trough.
We'll never get drugs out of the sport because you have both the "politics" of a clean sport (to ensure funding from sponsors) against the "politics" of winning at all cost (to ensure funding from sponsors) ... and with the introduction of politics we've driven out the most important thing, the morality of the riders.
to recap;
You have science vs. science, the science of eluding the scientific tests ... and you have lawyer vs. lawyer which in turn obfuscates the real reason why we love the bicycle.
corruption vs. corruption.
I don't see any easy answer for sports in general-- other than riding away from it completely.
FP........................................................
