Life is a Journey wrote:
I have no doubt that T and F is every bit as dirty as cycling despite what some people on this site think. My only question is, why aren't as many T and F athletes getting caught? Are they just more sophisticated in their methods, or is there something about riding on the tour for several weeks and getting tested daily that makes one more vulnerable?
I think there are a number of reasons to believe that endurance running has fewer dopers than cycling. Of course I'm not saying it doesn't go on, but I don't believe it to be as pervasive as in cycling.
1) First and foremost, there's more money in cycling.
2) Club level athletics has no drug culture, certainly not one I've ever heard of, whereas cycling has.
3) Fellow athletes have never been slow to call drug takers cheats, in cycling there is a long tradition of keeping quiet.
At the top level of course it still happens, but I really believe that the fewer positives in running reflects a fewer number of dopers.
I could be completely wrong though.