Do you have a problem with doping?

Problem is if you sanction PEDs then it becomes a baseline requirement just to compete.

cycling certainly is the most heavily affected and influenced by PEDs

Hell Yes!!

Pee Wee football and Tee Ball would be so much more entertaining if my Sons and their teammates were all 'roided up and pumped full of HGH.

Since they would have 10-12 years of SEC level of competition under their belt and their livers would be shot by Sophomore Year, I wouldn't have to budget any money for college!!

WIN - WIN!!!

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Problem is if you sanction PEDs then it becomes a baseline requirement just to compete.

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Exactly. You would be requiring athletes to take health risks just to be able to compete in the sport.

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I mean the simplest solution is to allow it universally. If they are so concerned with evening the playing field and all, then having everyone on it would essentially do that.

And let's not act like there is some huge health risk. I mean have you researched the shite Lance Armstrong was doing? That is the some of most cutting edge medical technology in the world. You think they just spend all that energy on it without regard to ramifications? please

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Exactly. It's also a tragedy how the greatest athlete of all time, Lance Armstrong, will forever have an asterisk by his name. Not a single person in the Tour de France has been clean for decades, yet it was a witch hunt for Lance's head, making the sport more inequitable because the most talented have to pass even more drug tests.

My doped up athlete can beat the piss out of you dope.

It’s already basically a requirement now to compete at the college level.

It’s not to break records either. It’s just to be strong enough and big enough to be able to even hang with the other guys. Plus, the recovery while taking steroids is so much faster.

I used to love to dope, especially when X was legal.

I worry about letting PEDs be legal in say football because within a decade or two of research and money players would be taken off in body bags fairly regularly.

For pro cycling, open it up and let's see how many watts a human can sustain up the Col d’Izoard.

Cycling has gotten boring since the Armstrong scandal. The mountain stages are all about conservation nobody attacks, if they do it is a simple 50 meter sprint off the front just to get rolled back up in half a klick. During the height of doping guys were trading attacks all the way up Hor category climbs like Ali and Foreman.

Anyone that thinks they aren't doping now is also nuts, while they have hard to start back over and find new approaches to avoid detection anyone that thinks Sky is doing it all on legs and lungs is wrong. Give it a few more years and you will see the superhumans of the early 2000s again. I actually think they are capable of more today, they just choose not to show it unless they absolutely have to.

Stage races like the Grand Tours require the body to be pushed farther and longer than and of the other major pro sports. Without doping it is just a race of conservation and survival. MCGA.

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For pro cycling, open it up and let's see how many watts a human can sustain up the Col d’Izoard.

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Yeah, it's getting ridiculous. These guys can sustain 5-6 watts per kilo for 4.5 hours at a time nearly every day for half a year, and people wonder why they don't put their power meter data up: raise suspicion maybe?