Originally Posted by MEversbergII

I am beginning to wonder if maybe it's time to embrace dopers. Many different sports over the last decade have had scandals like this. Baseball, football, American-rules football, etc. Even Olympic sport teams have suspicion at every event. At the end of the day, we want to see the batter hit harder, the pitcher throw faster, the cyclist ride quicker, etc. If we have the science, the technology, to enhance them for better performance (and thus entertainment) why should we shut them down? All it does is give the advantage to the people with better connections. Think of all the other cyclists, in this case, who lost out because they didn't want to get caught, knowing that they didn't have the resources to pull it off as well as the elite? It's time to stop giving the gold to the guys with the best connections. M.