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At that level of competition, just keep xraying bikes so it can't become an issue? Drug testing is privacy invasive, having your bike xrayed isn't if you're not cheating.
I understand that thermal imaging cameras can pick up anomalies in the frame where the motors are housed during the race.
I am definitely a layperson when it comes to organized sports, but from my POV it seems like competitive cycling attracts WAY more fraud/cheating/doping/etc. than many other kinds of sports. At least I have heard about it a lot more. I wonder why that is.
It's very hard to tell because the true rate of doping is not known. We just know about who we catch (or very questionable survey results) which are skewed by the resources available for testing and the resources available for hiding doping. Competitive cycling is more popular than many sports, so it gets a lot of attention and effort on both. Cycling was also at the center of the explosion of EPO use between the 199…
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I replied directly to OP, but applies here as well. Cycling is far more specialized than other sports so the pay off for doping is greater.
Why is pay off greater in cycling than other sports? Salary of the top riders? Compared to say NBA players, pro cyclist make relatively little. Tadej Pogacar (best and top paid cyclist) makes about $8M (euros) in salary per year. Steph Curry (highest paid) NBA player makes $55M (dollars) in salary per year.
That's not the same in basketball or most other sports. You can't just jump on gear, lift weights and suddenly become Michael Jordan. Plenty of people could beat Pogacar if they could use anything they could, though, just like manufacturers could build an F1 car that would dominate every race if they could circumvent the rules.
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It's very hard to tell because the true rate of doping is not known. We just know about who we catch (or very questionable survey results) which are skewed by the resources available for testing and the resources available for hiding doping. Competitive cycling is more popular than many sports, so it gets a lot of attention and effort on both. Cycling was also at the center of the explosion of EPO use between the 199…
When will the average person benefit from all the interesting performance enhancing drugs that have been secretly developed?
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It's very hard to tell because the true rate of doping is not known. We just know about who we catch (or very questionable survey results) which are skewed by the resources available for testing and the resources available for hiding doping. Competitive cycling is more popular than many sports, so it gets a lot of attention and effort on both. Cycling was also at the center of the explosion of EPO use between the 199…
When will the average person benefit from all the interesting performance enhancing drugs that have been secretly developed?
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It's very hard to tell because the true rate of doping is not known. We just know about who we catch (or very questionable survey results) which are skewed by the resources available for testing and the resources available for hiding doping. Competitive cycling is more popular than many sports, so it gets a lot of attention and effort on both. Cycling was also at the center of the explosion of EPO use between the 199…
When will the average person benefit from all the interesting performance enhancing drugs that have been secretly developed?
Motor doping has been around for ages. Nothing new.
The least they can do is give all contestants the same equipment.
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It's very hard to tell because the true rate of doping is not known. We just know about who we catch (or very questionable survey results) which are skewed by the resources available for testing and the resources available for hiding doping. Competitive cycling is more popular than many sports, so it gets a lot of attention and effort on both. Cycling was also at the center of the explosion of EPO use between the 199…
When will the average person benefit from all the interesting performance enhancing drugs that have been secretly developed?