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Jimmy_Fingers
I agree with you, mainly.
Why? There were figures published by the UCI, that I saw on Twitter last week, which showed that the use of TUEs has declined massively in the last five years. I can't find the tweet now, but in 2011 there were something like 200 TUEs applied for with the UCI, last year there were 15 and the decline was clear year on year.
I don't see that it's a problem for the sport, you have to allow athletes to take the right medicine for underlying health issues even if they are banned. The TUE system allows for that, I don't see why you have to throw out the baby with the bathwater.