Garth Woolsey of the Toronto Star wrote (followed by wilhelm violating
international copyright laws):

"Of all athletes, pro cyclists are the most likely to be tested because
it has been established that of all athletes pro cyclists are the
dirtiest of dirty, devious in the extreme. They'd lie to their own
mothers. It's been proven."

Sure looks like Floyd Landis cheated, doesn't it? And Marco Pantani,
Richard Virenque, Alex Zulle, Jan Ullrich just to name a few. I could
name more just on circumstantial evidence, not to mention those actually
caught by drug screening.

Yup, lots of pro cyclists are caught cheating. But in large measure
that is due to the fact that pro cycling is one of the sports that looks
the hardest for cheaters. Baseball, American football, soccer, tennis,
golf, auto racing, etc. mostly look the other way when it comes to the
question of doping. Even in small colleges, football players are doped
by the team doctors to make they bigger, stronger, faster and then to
take away the pain after the brutality is over on Sunday evening. It
literally took threat of Congressional action to get some American
sports governing bodies to even start looking at the doping problem.
Sports are a cash cow for the athletes, the owners and television
companies. They don't want to look the gift horse in the mouth, so they
collude to hide the problem.

Are pro cyclists dirtier than other professional athletes? We won't
know until they are all subject to equal scrutiny. When that happens,
we'll find that most if not all professional athletes cheat and lie
about it. Let's not forget East Germany's Olympic teams- professionals
in all but name, like most Olympic athletes- and Canada's own Ben
Johnson, after all.