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.
You're a little behind the times, and maybe should have spent time googling stuff instead of repeating fanboy talking points. The days of amateur Olympics died with Avery Brundage. All sports are now open to professionals.
Um, professional cycling IS an Olympic sport. Vino won the gold in the road race this year---and the last time I checked, he rode in the pro peloton for a number of years. Except, of course, for the time he was suspended. USADA can't touch him because he's Belarusssian.
How many millions did Congress spend investigating MLB? Don't you remember Rafael Palmeiro swearing before a Congressional committee that he never used PEDs and then testing positive not too much later? Wasn't Clemens charged with perjury for lying to Congress? How many millions of your taxpayer dollars were spent on his two trials? USADA doesn't supervise MLB and the NFL. Their mandate is the Olympic sports.
I'm really hoping that you're just a troll, and not nearly as uninformed as you sound.