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Originally posted by LessinSF
I disagree. I would rather watch a fair event without the dopers.
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I have no problem rooting out the dopers, and conducting a fair event without them.
I do have three problems with how this has been handled.
First, it's unclear to me how strong the evidence is, yet teams are being pressured to withdraw their riders.
Second, the riders will not be replaced, so the race will start significantly short-handed. Individual riders may succeed more because the rest of their team remains intact than because of their skill and talent, helped by a full team.
Third, it's being done on eve of the race, not sufficiently in advance for the race to come off as well-organized.
For comparison, I see this as equivalent to, say, suspending half of the players on a football team the eve before the playoffs, simply for suspicion of steriod use. While in the long run, the effort will result in a better sport, the short-term effect is to make a circus of the event.
