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What amazes me is that anyone expects any top flight athletes to be racing/competing clean.
Sure there may be those that do out of some sense of probity or whatever, but teams want to win, sponsors want teams to win, competition organisers want records broken at their meets, nations want gold medals etc, so the pressure to perform better than the next guy is always going to mean people doing their best to do 'better'.
Like they say, the game is the game, and generally the game is to stay one step ahead of the testers.
Lets level the playing field in the only way that's fair, and accept performance enhancement for what it is - performance enhancement. Otherwise you may as well ban aero helmets, skin-suits, shaved legs and eating more than 8000 calories a day. Get as much science inside you as possible, and lets see what you can do.
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