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Wherever there is competition there will be someone who forgets that the fun comes from playing the game and winning is irrelevant. There: now someone will tell us how wrong I am... 
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British Cycling. Clean or Not?
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The silence from DB is deafening.
This wasn't really covered by our UK press at the time. What is it wtih Sky and doctors
www.velonews.com
Former Rabobank, Sky doctor Geert Leinders handed lifetime ban
Testimony from Michael Rasmussen was pivotal to the investigation of former team doctor Geert Leinders
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Sadly cycling has a history of drug abuse going back to the 19th century
Other sports have a similarly tainted record, generally Eastern bloc countries, but also western countries, e.g. Ben Johnson at 1988 Olympics and various uses of performance enhancing drugs in US sports.
Other sports have a similarly tainted record, generally Eastern bloc countries, but also western countries, e.g. Ben Johnson at 1988 Olympics and various uses of performance enhancing drugs in US sports.
Quite ironic that you have mentioned Ben Johnson, when five out of six athletes in that 100m were found guilty of doping, and the winner Carl Lewis, the "Golden boy" of US athletics, had failed three tests (covered up by the US) prior to those Olympics. Then we have Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin, both of whom should have been banned for life, so what does the US do? They have the entire Russian team banned from competition, despite the fact that those athletes would have been tested many times all around the World.
I have competed in sports, and I can tell you that the US/UK are as corrupt as any country out there.
Lewis tested positive for drugs, claims former team-mate
Sprinter Carl Lewis was allowed to compete in the 1988 Olympics despite testing positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs…
Lest We Forget, the U.S., Too, Spent Time in the Doping Wilderness (Published 2016)
As we rage about Russia’s state-sponsored doping, we might want to recall those decades when doping was a slice of American pie.
Ben Johnson on Carl Lewis: 'He is not a man'
Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter stripped of a 1988 Olympic gold medal for doping, is continuing to make headlines on his new anti-doping crusade.
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Quite ironic that you have mentioned Ben Johnson, when five out of six athletes in that 100m were found guilty of doping, and the winner Carl Lewis, the "Golden boy" of US athletics, had failed three tests (covered up by the US) prior to those Olympics. Then we have Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin, both of whom should have been banned for life, so what does the US do? They have the entire Russian team banned from competition, despite the fact that those athletes would have been tested many times all around the World.
I have competed in sports, and I can tell you that the US/UK are as corrupt as any country out there.
Lewis tested positive for drugs, claims former team-mate
Sprinter Carl Lewis was allowed to compete in the 1988 Olympics despite testing positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs…www.irishtimes.com
Lest We Forget, the U.S., Too, Spent Time in the Doping Wilderness (Published 2016)
As we rage about Russia’s state-sponsored doping, we might want to recall those decades when doping was a slice of American pie.www.nytimes.com
Ben Johnson on Carl Lewis: 'He is not a man'
Ben Johnson, the Canadian sprinter stripped of a 1988 Olympic gold medal for doping, is continuing to make headlines on his new anti-doping crusade.
It used to make me puke seeing Gatlin compete. I’ve also seen the hatred directed to Contador in these forums, because he’s foreign.
As you say, we are far from whiter than white, and in my view some of the British success in the Tour de France et al absolutely stinks.
Then there was this, quickly forgotten by the British media.
www.standard.co.uk
Mo Farah case raises concern over protection for athletes
UK Athletics' approach to athlete welfare has been questioned following revelations that Mo Farah was injected with a controversial supplement ahead of the 2014 London Marathon.
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