Would you rather they keep testing and catching dopers or...

donrhummy
donrhummy Posts: 2,329
edited December 2007 in Pro race
Would you rather they keep catching dopers and getting scandals like Vino during the Tour or that they do like all other sports and pretend to be testing for doping but only catch one or two token useless dopers?

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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    The whole golf thing of the other week reminded me of the way cycling used to try and sweep their doping issues under the carpet.

    I still await the time it properly hits football, rugby etc. because their is doping there for sure.
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  • ivancarlos
    ivancarlos Posts: 1,034
    What Jimmy said. Stands to reason that there must be doping in other sports where the financial gains are even greater :!:
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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    jimmythecuckoo wrote:
    The whole golf thing of the other week reminded me of the way cycling used to try and sweep their doping issues under the carpet.

    Heard some bod from the Royal & Ancient interviewed last week and he basically said "There is no reason to dope in golf, because drugs can't enhance your performance at this type of sport".

    So being able to thwack a golf ball 360 yards instead of 330, or keep the nerves at bay on that crucial putt, or recover from that pesky back injury that has laid you low all season..............wouldn't be beneficial eh? A definite case of denial I think.

    Not that any of this helps cycling one jot.................it is without doubt the most laughable sport in the world at present..............with the exception perhaps of wrestling.
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  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    T-Mobile just jumped ship. Catching the dopers is bad for business....
  • Martin Van Nostrand
    Martin Van Nostrand Posts: 149
    This is a sport before a business. Americans like to equate business success to the success of a sport, which is why pro wrestling thrives, and NASCAR has some bizarre appeal, and football (soccer) remains lost in America.

    We have to decide how fake we want our sport to be. WWF is fake wrestling and successful, NASCAR is fake racing and successful. Good for business is not always good for sport. F1 is a good example of this last year.

    If we want cycling to be good for TV and business, we should have the coarse directeur wave a yellow flag every time there is an attack and bunch them all up together.
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  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 2,123
    donrhummy wrote:
    Would you rather they keep catching dopers and getting scandals like Vino during the Tour or that they do like all other sports and pretend to be testing for doping but only catch one or two token useless dopers?

    How do we know that (in cycling) they are not just bagging a few high profile names just to keep the mob happy? The whole world and his wife appears to have known that the 'scandalous Vino' was at it. Some might say an easy target, and ripe for bullying out of the sport. But doesn't the heavy targetting of the few take the heat off the rest?

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