david baker

That's a joke right? If not you are crazy. Every aspiring cyclist would have to endanger their health to succeed. Ridiculous. It's bad enough that we have to deal with all of the crap we already deal with in this world, the last thing we need is to be doing dangerous drugs to be good at cycling!
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If consenting adults want to use dangerous medical procedures to abnormally improve their abilities why is that an issue? A small but highly visible minority of top riders have been busted for trying to use banned medical procedures to outperform their natural bodies. So what? Random testing and applying sanctions seems like a waste of talent and money to me. I always assume every top pro is doing something just this side of "illegal" in their training and recovery. To me that is as tedious as prohibiting how powerful a stock car engine can be, to prevent drivers from out performing their skills.

On Apr 17, 2009 11:27am, Justin Serna wrote:
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> Sad ending to Tyler Hamilton's career
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