Doom
Active Member
I think you're mistaking WADA for USADA there.
They make stuff up as they go along, scapegoat, they have numerous star athletes on "TUEs" which allow them to legally dope yet they come down on Sharapova like a tonne of bricks.
A lot of the supplements on their banned list aren't even proven to have any performance enhancing attributes whatsoever, but they can just say it's banned because WADA.
On top of all this, they trample on athletes rights like nobody's business - if you are suspected of a doping offence, the onus is ON YOU to prove your innocence.
The CEO of USADA Travis Tygart was immense during the unraveling of Armstrong's lies. He was getting death threats and slandered by Armstrong fanatics and he never let the pressure show.
As for cycling the real culprit in my opinion is the UCI who seemed happy to look the other way when it came to doping.
Though President of the UCI during the Armstrong-era Pat McQuaid was cleared of all wrong doing last year.
As a by the by, McQuaid was a PE teacher in Dublin in the '80s and a lad I know broke his leg in a vault-based accident in one of his classes!