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davidcyclebackI agree with you Barry.
My belief concerning sports and competitions where performance enhancing drugs are prevalent and commonly used by the top competitors (MLB, Tour de France, etc) is that superior performance is good indication of use of performance enhancing drugs/methods, in particular with winners (beat everyone else). If an athlete's competitors are using the illegal drugs/methods, it is close to unbelievable that an athlete could be beat them au natural. Amongst the strongest evidence than Floyd Landis cheated in a Tour de France infested with cheaters is that he won. With performance as significant indicator, do I believe Lance Armstrong did not cheat while beating for seven consecutive years against competitors who cheated? No I do not. I think one would have to be naive to believe it physiologically possible. In fact, the director of the of the Tour de France was asked where the top racer not medically cheating would finish. "Perhaps fifty fifth," he said.