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Cycling, at least it's not as bad as archery
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----------------------------------------------------- Riding High: Why is there so much more doping in professional cycling than in other sports? The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has charged cyclist Lance Armstrong with doping, claiming that his blood samples from 2009 and 2010 indicated Erythropoietin use and/or blood transfusions. According to the New York Times, all but two of the Tour de France winners since 1995 have been involved in doping controversies. Why does doping seem to be so much more common in cycling than in other endurance sports? Heightened scrutiny, among other things. Doping is depressingly prevalent in cycling, but it’s not entirely clear that the situation is better in other endurance sports. In 2010, cyclists failed 1.19 percent of the doping tests administered by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Triathletes did only slightly better, failing 1.09 percent of their tests. It’s difficult to compare those results to marathon runners, because the agency lumps their results in with other nonendurance track-and-field athletes like pole vaulters. (Overall, track-and-field athletes failed 0.78 percent of tests.) Taking all sports into account, the fail rate in cycling is rather middling. Athletes involved in weightlifting (2.42 percent), boxing (1.94 percent), and archery (1.47 percent) all failed at significantly higher rates than cyclists. (Archers, if you’re wondering, take beta blockers to keep their hands steady under pressure.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Read it at http://www.slate.com/articles/sports..._cycling_.html or http://tinyurl.com/bnzqhmp J. Spaceman |
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Cycling, at least it's not as bad as archery
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, Jason Spaceman wrote: Riding High: Why is there so much more doping in professional cycling than in other sports? There isn't. -- Old Fritz |
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