Pro Athletes in any sport are business(wo)men. They sign a contract with their sports federation and are required to follow the rules of their sport, which for WADA adopted sports, includes abiding by the WADA code. Those who dope and break these rules are engaging in unfair trade and harming the business interests of those abiding by the contract they signed with their sports federations.
Doping is not allowed in cycling and if a doper says they are pedaling dope free they misrepresent their product and directly harm those who race clean. Is that not fraud?
In other industries businessmen have legal protections, why not for all 'organic' (clean) athletes.
"In April 2012, Harold Chase of Springfield, Ore., was sent to prison for more than two years after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud for selling in excess of four million pounds of corn falsely labelled as organically grown.
Chase is one of three people the USDA helped put in jail in the last few years.
“The penalties send the message that you can't get away with defrauding the organic consumer,” McEvoy said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/pesticide-levels-on-some-organic-produce-indicate-use-was-deliberate-1.2491167
Doping is not allowed in cycling and if a doper says they are pedaling dope free they misrepresent their product and directly harm those who race clean. Is that not fraud?
In other industries businessmen have legal protections, why not for all 'organic' (clean) athletes.
"In April 2012, Harold Chase of Springfield, Ore., was sent to prison for more than two years after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud for selling in excess of four million pounds of corn falsely labelled as organically grown.
Chase is one of three people the USDA helped put in jail in the last few years.
“The penalties send the message that you can't get away with defrauding the organic consumer,” McEvoy said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/pesticide-levels-on-some-organic-produce-indicate-use-was-deliberate-1.2491167