Olympics 2012 track cycling

I have been pondering this at length for a while. I can understand the pressure of young professional and amateur athletes to perform to get a good contract/secure sponsorship, and I can also understand that when you are young you can be foolish, and impressionable. I would hate for someone to pay for the rest of their life for one mistake.

That said I hate the thought of drugs cheats like Vino and Bange winning medals at the expense of clean riders, its loathsome, which leans me the other way.

A lot has been made of Sky's use of Leinders, Yates and even Rogers but I guess while they came into the sport with the right intentions, given that it will really be another generation before you can hope the sport is fully clean its hard to see how they could avoid it totally.. Pointing out someone the the pro scene who has doped or is associated with doping, be they current pros, ex-riders turned DS/team owner or cycling doctors is like shooting fish in a barrel.

People everywhere pay for the rest of their lives for one mistake. Why should cheating in sport be any different? Cheat, caught, go be a shelf stacker somewhere.

The fish in the barrel are getting less and less though aren't they. If the doping rules were harsher there'd be even fewer.