...Other than he said she said. The entire professional cycling world has basically been turned upside down by those who got caught being intimidated into fingering others.
Frankly, they should stop right now, and either change the way they do business, end professional cycling, have a test that works, or allow blood doping to a certain level.
The problem remains in the testing. Because blood hemoglobin levels are different in every rider they just cannot test for blood that is tainted or improved by transfusion. How do you test for a needle poke, or two or three? The tour for example is so demanding I am betting that 90 plus percent of riders were doping. Just look at how many got caught versus how many others didnt but were doing the same thing with perhaps just a little more finnesse. That is spelled not quite so much, or the timing was off by a few hours, or they got randomly caught.
I think how USADA has gone about exposing the cheating, if you can call what everyone was doing, cheating, and I don’t mean do diminish those few not blood doping, but when your entire program is compromised, your program needs a severe reevaluation, not a public denouncement of all accused of being involved without proof other than turning all competitors agains one another.
...So, instead of the sanctioning bodies taking the hit for allowing the rampant blood doping, because they had no real control, it is the cyclists themselves who have to take the hit. I’m not seeing it the way they are. It is the sanctioning bodies, and the testing agencies who need to say, we screwed up. We virtually allowed the doping to occur because we didn’t have a good enough test to stop it, and the cyclists and doctors were smarter than we were. Call it cheating together for the good of the sport, and now because of their desire to NOT share in the disaster, they bring the entire sport down.
Not how it should have been done IMHO, but then who am I?