Originally Posted by Cog_wild

exactly, and in all professional sports where there is big money involved. What irritates me, as a US taxpayer, is that my money is being spent attacking the sport of cycling while all these other sports (Football, Basketball, Baseball, Rugby, Soccer, Hockey) and their heros are getting off relatively scot free. The USADA, founded in 2000, is designed to preserve the integrity of competition in Olympic and ParaOlympic sports. So it was created to ensure a level playing field for non-professional athletes ie Olympians. So how the heck were they able to use all my tax dollars to interfere with the UCI and PROFESSIONAL cycling? It was a witch hunt to go after LA bc he was on the US team, and now look what's happening to the sport, people stepping down all over the place. Well, after all the fall out perhaps cycling will emerge as the only CLEAN PROFESSIONAL SPORT out there. One can only hope.