How could we solve the drugs in cycling problem?

I just wanted to hear anybodies thoughts on how to combat the drugs in cycling problem? Thought we could bounce some innovative ideas off each other.

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I don't think it can be stopped. At best, one can only hope to make it tougher for the potential drug user.

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There's, sadly, no way to stop it. It's been around in the Tour de France since the first year, 1903, they would put alcohal in their water containers to numb the pain. I hope that the officials come up with a way to detect any form of it. I can't stand all this doping, its a discrase to any trying cyclist.

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I was thinking that the pro tour could hold on to 50% of all rider salaries over US $50,000 per annum. The interest on those salaries could be used to fight drugs. If a cyclist is caught doping, they forfeit that 50%, which is then distribute amongst the non doping cyclists. What do yall think?

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"home-browned... comes to you dark as a hazel-eye...temper...cream...cheated...thick...yellow lumpy... blue devils and will exorcise them all."
-Henry Ward Beecher

drugs in sport will exist while the athlete is considered expendable by sports administrators, team owners and sponsors.... cycling is far from unique, in fact it is a minnow in the field.

Roo

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I think..that the greatest benefit to cyclists would ensue if government were to..gradually signify and produce society's view that cycling is a legitimate form of roadway transportation, open to all on an equal basis of proper skills and responsibilities that are easily attained and exercised.(John Forester)

I actually just found a website where you can discuss doping romours:

http://bikedrugs.blogspot.com/

I think its just new, but the idea has potential.

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"home-browned... comes to you dark as a hazel-eye...temper...cream...cheated...thick...yellow lumpy... blue devils and will exorcise them all."
-Henry Ward Beecher

Trying to stop doping in sports is just as doomed to failure as trying to stop it in the population at large. It's pretty much killed my interest in big-time sports. For the first time since they started TV coverage of the Tour de France, I might not even bother to watch it. And how people can still be baseball fans is completely beyond me. Probably the last bastion of true sports and sportsmanship is found at the secondary school level, and the local amateur and age-group competitions (and the way things are going these days, maybe not even there).

I liken doping in cycling to doping in baseball. Baseball players who have admitted taking steroids claim that it's nearly impossible to play every day, 162 games without your body falling apart, unless they take some sort of performance enhancing drugs. If that is indeed the case, then maybe baseball needs to shorten the season.

And if men can't ride the Tour and compete in cycling without cheating, then maybe the tours need to be shortened, or they should take more time between stages to let their body heal. I don't know, just my .02

Simple. Update testing technology and test before and after each race.

These are good points. I never understood how ANYONE in the pro tours could race through 7 consecutive days with 130+ mile rides and time trials without keeling over and seizing up. It just doesn't make sense. It might be a good idea to include more rest days. Don't they know what "catabolism" means? It's ridiculous to think that the human body, no matter how well trained, will recuperate from this type of riding day in and day out. If you ask me, lots of pros might need to supplement or lose their racing careers... which would you choose, race and dope or quit and not dope?

How do we solve the drugs in Cycling? Simple: By first solving the drugs in Society. Where do you draw the line on "Perfomance Inhancing"? What's the most popular performance inhancing drug in the world right now? Viagra

I don't think you're going to stop it.

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Trouble is, the cheaters are always one step ahead of the testers.

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Then I'm going to try some before my next time trial.

New and more strigent penalties.

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