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Originally posted by Legolas:
What I find strange about the whole thing isn't that it's happening, it's that you only (and always) hear about it in cycling. It's not like that's the sport where the big money is, nor are the other branches of sport remotely clean.
As for the testosterone, the guy won, is it any wonder he makes more?
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You're misinformed, i hear that if you win the Tour once, you'll never have to work another day in your life. There's also good money to be made in the classics like Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
The reason we hear so much about positive tests from cyclists, is that the frequency of testing for drugabuse is much more intense than in any other sport, but just for the record....the world of track and field is just as rotten as the world of cycling. A lot of gold medallists have been caught later, like Johnson and Marion Jones. Florence griffith's early death raises questions too. There have been cases in football, especially players competing in the Spanish and Italian leagues, but football has other issues to worry about, such as bribery.
Baseball is another sport where people get caught on a regular basis. Even Tennis pops up every now and then. Weightlifting, full contact fightingsports, wrestling, swimming...they all are under suspicion. We only get to see the tip of the iceberg i'm afraid.
We had a funny case here in Holland the other day, when a goalkeeper tested positive on.....marihuana. Now trust me when i say that this stuff does everything BUT improve your goalkeepingskills. There's a good chance you'll be seeing several balls at the same time, or none at all. This can hardly be qualified as a case of dope abuse if you ask me. the guy is only fooling himself if he smokes weed the night before a match, and he's also a hazzard to his teammates.
