At least cycling is doing something about it and catching the cheats even the big name stars.
If you think that they are clean in ball sports you are kidding yourself. You can guarantee that they are in it in a big way because they have little chance of getting caught.
If a cyclist had a drip put in his arm like the Brisbane Lions were doing in full view at half time they would have been kicked out for two years.
You can look at it in two ways. Cycling is bad they are catching drug cheats all the time or you can say cyling is trying to clean up the sport and catching the cheats what a good job they are doing.
What about the AFL player who went into rehab in the states. Was he ever picked up for having it in him by the AFL - If he was a cyclist he would have gone straight up.
The testing cycling gets would be equivilent to the man of the match and every try scorer in rules or league getting drug tested after each match. That is personally escorted off the field by a drug tester and never left alone until the test was taken. Yes that means peeing in front of them.
Other sports don't come close to the cycling testing.
Please don't say you have no respect for a sport that is actually airing its dirty laundry in public and doing some thing.
i think Tayles wasnt referring to drugs at all with his comments, however the controls wouldnt be in place if there wasnt such blatent abuse of substances within the sport.
AFL has different rules, they still believe in the three strikes rule - in other words TRUST for the players.
As for swimming, well those chinese (wo)men speak for themselves