It's the perception. The perception of cycling is that pretty much everyone is doping. Just like the perception of football, and baseball, rightly or wrongly,

It's the perception. The perception of cycling is that pretty much everyone is doping. Just like the perception of football, and baseball, rightly or wrongly, is that everyone is doping. Whereas with soccer and basketball the perception is that, while some of them may try doping, the elite skilled players cannot possibly have gotten that way by doping. So people see Steph Curry, or Neymar, or Kyrie, or Messi, and, again rightly or wrongly, they assume these guys have elite skills that the other players just don't have. The perception is that the other players won't ever get those skills either, no matter how much dope they take. The elite skill guys in basketball and soccer are perceived almost as artists. It's almost like those skills are more like art. It's just the perception. Most people think basketball and soccer take more skill than football or cycling. May not be a fair perception, but that's just how a lot of people see things.