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While possibly true for some specific sports, I highly doubt this is a generality. So +1 to [citation needed].

• dpark 10y ago
  Every so often there's a big scandal in another sport as pervasive doping is uncovered. It happened to baseball. It happened to cycling. It happening to sprinting. It's also happened to numerous elite individuals across nearly every sport. At some point it becomes unreasonable to believe that only some sports are subject to doping problems when they all have basically the same opportunities, the same pressures, and the same human nature.
  • untog 10y ago
    But the Olympics have doping tests. It's how the Russians were found out.
    • dpark 10y ago
      Is this sarcasm?
    • brianwawok 10y ago
      You mean years that the athletes can swap samples out?
• brianwawok 10y ago
  How many people would need busted across how many sports for you to truly admit to yourself that most sports are dirty? 10? 100? 1000? You clearly can't cite what % of athletes are dirty. Many likely get away with it. For proof look at the self admitted cheaters who got away with it for N years. Do you honestly think these were the only dopers? Then look at incentive structure. Go 1% faster and win the race and make millions of dollars. Go 1% slower and get 5th place and nothing. Cheat and get away with it and make millions. Cheat and get caught and you get embarrassed. With this pay stuctute why wouldn't you cheat? It's the only logical path. The best way to figure out this kind of thing is not a complete survey. It's a few data points and some game theory.