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On the incentive to dope question, surely the only answer is to somehow link earnings to testing over a prolonged period?
If part of a cyclists earnings were set aside during their career and forfeit to loss if they were ever proven to dope, surely that would disincentivise doping.
As it stands, maybe we are seeing an inflection point where the risks associated with doping outweigh the rewards, at which juncture the sport will start to clean up.
In a way, its kind of like the investment bankers screwing the economy. The risk/reward incentives were wrong.