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  • I'm trying to work out in my head if mech doping is worse than pharma... I reckon it probably is. At least with the drugs you can argue that the rider is still putting themselves through hellish pain to win. A motor kinda just lets you whizz away for the same effort. But then maybe you could argue the EPO is a biological motor, I dunno. Whatever, for a motor to be in the bike you'd have to have several members of the team complicit in the cheating. Drugs you can plausibly do in isolation.

  • At least with the drugs you can argue that the rider is still putting themselves through hellish pain

    But with EPO, the blood is able to carry more oxygen, delaying the pain of lactic acid in the muscles. Pharma doping definitely reduces pain.

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