Originally Posted by
collegeskier
Cycling being aggressive to weed out cheaters, makes them look dirtier.
You are right it does make cycling look dirtier, but the drama around doping adds a lot of entertainment value to pro cycling that wouldn't exist just with the bike racing alone. I tune in to read the bike press partly to hear the race results and partly to hear who got caught doping. And even more interesting is hearing about some incredible performance on a 89% grade climb and then waiting for the doping results to see if that rider gets caught or not. For example like Contador at the Giro lately - of course he may well get suspended in short order by CAS for his
steak problems at the TdeF last year.