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The biological passport has had a massive impact on the sport in the past ten years. Oxygen vector doping is all but a thing of the past at WT level, which is why today’s doping ‘scandals’ are predominantly to do with the misuse of minor steroids and anti-inflammatorys rather than ghetto style blood transfusions and widespread EPO use.
There will always be cheating in sport, but cycling has made huge strides in cleaning up its act in the past ten years.
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Ok, but we still have a situation where a tour winner has been found to have (ab)used the TUE system to legally use steroids, the medical records which would explain or justify this mysteriously evaporating, and the medical personnel refusing to cooperate with the investigation.
It might not be EPO in the back of the bus but ultimately it's the same behaviour, just wrapped in that very peculiar British definition of 'fair play when it suits us.'
It all stinks and I really hoped Wiggins would come out with a "I didn't cross an ethical line" by way of defence.
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It's not a minor steroid though is it. David Miller (pre Sky scandal) describes it as the 'most potent' drug he used.
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Slightly opaque?
By comparison all that's happened in 10 years is that the UCI have moved the goalposts to permit a degree of cheating that saw Landis penalised and stripped of his title.
Perfectly justified to explain their perspectives on it given the hypocrisy that's coming out.