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Speak for yourself but I remember many positive cases over the years. Back in the days a rider would usually be allowed to finish the Grand Tour he was doing, even bagging a win, and then serve a conveniently suspended competition ban for a couple of months during the winter. In other words, no one gave a flying fork.
Many positive tests in the past were largely for medicines you could get over the counter, riders were using cortisone and amphetamines at a time when the general population at large could walk into a pharmacy and buy these medicines. Indeed up until the late 1960s, amphetamines were advertised as pick me ups for tired factory workers and dozy lorry drivers.
Ever since the 1990s doping moved onto a new level with the blood manipulation, some managed to ignore the rumours for a while but then the Festina scandal happened and ever since then there has been a different attitude, these days a rider who gets caught is likely to be burned at the stake instead of getting the "shoot, how did he get caught" shrug.0
