Competitive Cycling and Doping

[A Black Falcon]

A very interesting article... if you didn't know how deeply ingrained doping is in European cycling, this article does a great job of explaining it. Interesting stuff... (Though I don't imagine that things are all that different in other sports, doping seems to have been/be an incredibly common thing few athletes seem to be able to keep away from the temptation of...)

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/wr...index.html

[Weltall]

They should just let them all dope and be done with it. Allow them the freedom to wreck their bodies for the sake of winning some sissy bike race.

I know it's not really a sissy event, but I have a point to make.

[alien space marine]

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[A Black Falcon]

They should just let them all dope and be done with it. Allow them the freedom to wreck their bodies for the sake of winning some sissy bike race.

I know it's not really a sissy event, but I have a point to make.

Hah, that opinion is basically exactly how the article says Americans (wrongly?) consider cycling... :)

I admit I have as well, though. bicycle racing as a working-person's sport? Pretty strange concept...

[Geno]

Bike racing is like NASCAR without the explosions. It's a more boring version of an already boring sport. :)

[alien space marine]

What happen to joisting tournaments?

Or do I need to get a time machine to see that?