Originally Posted by El Diablo Rojo
That's the crux of the situation in cycling. They have no strong union so the UCI and WADA can test them however and whenever they please. In Football (Soccer) they are probably juiced to the gills but they would never allow WADA to treat them they way they treat cyclists. I'm not saying that cyclists are not doping but if the other major international sports were subjected to doping controls the way cyclist are you'd see the same types of scandals in them as well.
+1000
Doping is so prevalent at the high end of any sport its just not even funny. Heck, I remember my sophmore year of (American) football in highschool we had kids 'roiding. In my gym rat days I had guys in the locker room offer to sell me a "cycle" of steroids. I was so naive at first it took me a while to pick up on what the heck he was talking about. I'm fairly confident its at the elite level of all sports and not just cycling.