Reasons to / not to dope

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Reasons not to dope:

Unfair on fellow competitors
Health side effects
Cost
Risk of penalty if caught
Shame if caught

Reasons to dope:

Fame
Money
Success
 
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To be cool. I mean Wiggans pre-sideburns was uncool, he grew some sideburns becomes cool and wins boatloads of races.
 
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BYOP88 said:
To be cool. I mean Wiggans pre-sideburns was uncool, he grew some sideburns becomes cool and wins boatloads of races.

maybe they increased his aero by deflecting the wind around his ears more efficiently.
 
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Basecase said:
Reasons to dope:

Fame
Money
Success
Federation supports doping
Not *that* bad getting busted doping. Winning fixes everything.

Fixed that for you.
 
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Not to dope:
Difficulty of finding right program.
Finding a doctor that will help
Trusting grey/black market drugs
Trusting non doctors to help and not kill you.


To dope:
Availability
Information of how to do it is easy to find
easy to beat the system
Culture made it acceptable
Society less judgemental
 
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Libertine Seguros said:
Trypanophobia

Is that a fear of needles.

Primary motivation for a lot not to dope now depending on your definitions of success and failure: you could end up like Lance.
 
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How about taking dope and spending all that cash yet still not talented enough to win or even to keep up? Doping does not make everyone a star only appear better than they are. So a cat 4 can race cat 2. That ought to garner a lot of notoriety. Anyone who is made famous from doping is already a better rider than 99% of the rest of us. I would go so far to say that no pro rider can stay a pro if they cannot also survive clean. Maybe another way to put it is you need to be talented enough to keep up in a pro race and handle the distance clean or doping won't help make you a star but it might get you a job you can't keep.
Then there is the cost. You need a top level pro contract to afford it.
It is only the really expensive stuff that is even remotely undetectable.
I have one question for the clinic regulars is who is paying for Jonny domestique's drugs? You think Ferrari gives a discount to domestiques? Even on USPS the real dopers were the tour team and the $400+k salaried riders who could afford the drugs. It isn't like the drugs for postal bikes thing was paying 7 years of it.