Doping

I'm not of the opinion that Brailsford says we are clean and we slap him on the back and say carry on old chap, but the TUE controversy and now the jiffy bag lead people to extrapolate that Wiggins is a doper and has been throughout his career, that Sky has some sort of institutionalised doping regime like USPS or Festina and all their blackshirts are on the juice, and that British cycling by logical extension is infested in the same manner. And that their doping is somehow worse than some Italian riders getting pinged, demonised like Armstrong rather than ignored like Pantani. Those double standards wind me up.

I do think it's a dangerous slope saying that doping in endurance sports is somehow worse than in team/skill sports. Yes you have to be skillful to play rugby and football, but it sure as hell helps if you are built like a brick shithouse and can run for full gas for 80/90 minutes. Rugby has the highest number of positives of any sport in the UK, and football is so poorly policed it is scandalous. Cycling has long been the tethered goat for sports, constant doping scandals that make it look like a cesspool and distract from other sports who look like a paragon of virtue in comparison. But those scandals exist because it is very heavily policed as a sport, whereas other sports you can virtually dope with impunity.

Tl:dr said sport a lot